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There's a pizza place by me that has a "game day deal" but they offer it all year round. It's two 14" one topping pizzas, 24 wings, two 2-liters, and either 12 cheese sticks or breadsticks. After losing my third friend of the year I ate the whole thing in a 24 hour span. All I had left was a 2-liter. Emotional eating is crazy sometimes.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/are-delivery-apps-killing-restaurants Apropos of the current conversation, delivery apps are apparently break even or money losing BWM for local restaurants, promising a return in exposure and profitable walk-in customers down the road (just like Groupons) and we are heading towards a shity gig economy future of arm's length independent contractor kitchens slinging delivery food ordered from our corporate overlords Uber and Seamless
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/are-delivery-apps-killing-restaurants Counterpoint, legal pot. Like I have BWM friends who order UberEats all the time because well... What they lose in walk-in customers they'll make up for in volume. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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Feb 26, 2018 16:00
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John Smith posted:Order a big bundled meal set, eat what you feel comfortable with, and then store the rest for subsequent meals. That was my main rationalisation for ordering that instead of something more reasonable. But I’d eat like 3/4 of that in a single sitting. Taking care of your mental health is GWM and GWL. Seriously, if you were making GBS threads green confetti on the reg, you’d go see the rear end doctor and take rear end pills, no question asked. If your brain is doing weird poo poo, go see a brain doctor and take brain pills. Off topic I guess, but it needs to be repeated over and over until nobody feels shame in seeing a therapist. The happy pills changed my life. Best $10/month I’ve ever spent.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:04
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Krispy Wafer posted:Counterpoint, legal pot. According to the article, the restaurant owners interviewed believe that they don't make any money on volume delivery and they aren't sure if the promised payoff in advertising / exposure is coming. Interesting Lee, none of these companies are profitable either, it seems like the only people making money off of food delivery are the people actually delivering the food, and even then that is a minimum wage type of job
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Feb 26, 2018 16:20
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FrozenVent posted:That was my main rationalisation for ordering that instead of something more reasonable. But I’d eat like 3/4 of that in a single sitting. Can't echo enough. Unmanaged sadbrains often makes it drat near impossible to get out of debt or stay out of it; you make one mistake and the compounding effects of punitive fees, lack of motivation, and cognitive decline can put you in the hole for years.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:According to the article, the restaurant owners interviewed believe that they don't make any money on volume delivery and they aren't sure if the promised payoff in advertising / exposure is coming. Interesting Lee, none of these companies are profitable either, it seems like the only people making money off of food delivery are the people actually delivering the food, and even then that is a minimum wage type of job I was only half serious. Obviously volume does no good if you're losing money on each order or if your costs rise faster than your profits. But at the same time if you have demand then you have room to raise prices. So our new gig economy exploited inefficiencies in taxi services decreasing those prices, but will probably increase restaurant costs since those were already operating at low margins and didn't benefit from monopoly type conditions.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:According to the article, the restaurant owners interviewed believe that they don't make any money on volume delivery and they aren't sure if the promised payoff in advertising / exposure is coming. Interesting Lee, none of these companies are profitable either, it seems like the only people making money off of food delivery are the people actually delivering the food, and even then that is a minimum wage type of job It can work; you just need a better business plan than "we'll provide personal service to everyone at no extra cost to them, but it'll be profitable because we have an app." There's a startup called Peach that does aggregate lunch orders for offices - they text you a couple of options from a single local restaurant in the late morning, then drop off everybody's order at once around noon. They got to profitability quickly because they can take advantage of economies of scale, the restaurants they work with can also take advantage of economies of scale, and they've got a way to get into people's heads right when they're thinking "I didn't bring lunch today, what am I going to do?" John Smith posted:Order a big bundled meal set, eat what you feel comfortable with, and then store the rest for subsequent meals. Of all the posters who'd pull the Lucille Bluth "how much could a
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Eating takeout all the time is also bad with health, which leads to much greater BWM and BWL down the road.Haifisch posted:HELP! I've almost spent $1,500 on FOOD this month! I'm just one person; this is ridiculous! This makes it really obvious that she has no idea how to shop for groceries and or any sense of how a food budget works. I'm sure that food costs are higher there, but when coming up with "what will $50 get me here compared to where I used to live" it's bizarre to use a shopping trip that consists largely of things that don't make a meal or wouldn't be regular purchases like an uncommon fish, maple syrup, waffle mix, and olive oil. I really doubt the potatoes, broccoli and zucchini were a significant proportion of that shopping trip.
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My bane are store-brand frozen pizzas that are 14" "personal" pizzas which are 2/$6, 2 delicious meals of grease and fat in 16 short minutes when I'm too lazy to cook for myself, some for dinner and the rest for breakfast the next morning. They're such good value! GWM but BWL 
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Space Gopher posted:It can work; you just need a better business plan than "we'll provide personal service to everyone at no extra cost to them, but it'll be profitable because we have an app." Well the basic business plan of Uber and other gig economy companies is to attempt to undercut everyone else by spending cheap venture capital money to build business, finding cheap marginal labor, circumventing as much regulation and liability as possible, and forcing expenses off onto arms-length independent contractors. In this example, the delivery people and restaurant owners.
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Feb 26, 2018 17:14
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Well the basic business plan of Uber and other gig economy companies is to attempt to undercut everyone else by spending cheap venture capital money to build business, finding cheap marginal labor, circumventing as much regulation and liability as possible, and forcing expenses off onto arms-length independent contractors. In this example, the delivery people and restaurant owners. Yeah, Uber isn't making money, it's burning through venture capital at an astounding rate, hoping that absolute market dominance will result in massive profits once self-driving electric cars become viable. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2017/12/14/why-cant-uber-make-money/2/#4c5b13514a24 Basically without artificial constraints on supply (the medallion system), taxis aren't really profitable to run even when you treat the drivers like serfs.
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Yeah, none of these "gig economy" companies are remotely close to profitable because they're trying to press into industries that already have razor thin margins, and they're just using VC money as a buffer and passing that discount onto their customer while trying to expand the margin by not paying taxes or supporting their not-employees.
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Bhodi posted:My bane are store-brand frozen pizzas that are 14" "personal" pizzas which are 2/$6, 2 delicious meals of grease and fat in 16 short minutes when I'm too lazy to cook for myself, some for dinner and the rest for breakfast the next morning. See this is why I like the frozen Chinese food deals from Trader Joe's. It's like a pound of orange chicken just ready to heat in the oven for 15 minutes, put some rice on in the rice cooker and you have 4 servings for $6 or 7. I keep a few in the freezer all the time. It's my go-to for when I'm too lazy to cook because it's WAY cheaper than takeout
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Yeah, I will make something like curry or spaghetti meat sauce etc, and what we don't use of the sauces go in the freezer to be vacuum sealed later. It's so easy to just throw some noodles on to cook or put some rice in the cooker for dinner with some reheated sauce. I also have a bunch of servings of plain pulled pork that we can reheat and add bbq or teriyaki whatever and have that over a bun/rice/whatever. Easy to make on those busy nights! The trader joes stuff is so good, but my husband thinks he needs low salt so we don't get that stuff often. I do make personal pizza crusts that I freeze ahead of time and have our own frozen pizzas  So much cheaper than delivery, and tbh we are in a bit of a delivery desert. We can get pizza or Chinese delivered and that's it. Not a big choice and they are not very good either. I'm not going to spend money on someone to deliver McD's etc to us.... that's just silly the amount of money they say and then it's like a long delivery window too. Not exactly quick on those nights when we are just tired  Its a lot faster to make something with what we have stored and its probably a lot healthier too.Have to know how to shop to make the most out of a food budget! I've managed to drop our food budget by nearly half this way and we don't waste nearly as much between the two of us foodwise. Disco Salmon fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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Keep it up and we're headed for GWS
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Moneyball posted:Keep it up and we're headed for GWS Think of all the things that are BWM: Video Games Advanced Degrees DIY Gadgets Food Clothes Pets Guns Drugs Bhodi fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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Bhodi posted:This would be a great traveling thread tbh Didn't it travel a long time ago like 5 years ago?
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Bhodi posted:This would be a great traveling thread tbh. Living Loving Dying Existence Having money Spending too much money Not spending enough money
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Bhodi posted:This would be a great traveling thread tbh.
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Space Gopher posted:There's a startup called Peach that does aggregate lunch orders for offices - they text you a couple of options from a single local restaurant in the late morning, then drop off everybody's order at once around noon. They got to profitability quickly because they can take advantage of economies of scale, the restaurants they work with can also take advantage of economies of scale, and they've got a way to get into people's heads right when they're thinking "I didn't bring lunch today, what am I going to do?"
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DACK FAYDEN posted:This legitimately sounds like a profitable business that I would invest in if I was a VC. A strong combination of a natural market niche and scalability.
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Enfys posted:Eating takeout all the time is also bad with health, which leads to much greater BWM and BWL down the road. i did spend 1500 in one month on food once i had made a bet with my sister that i could eat steak for every meal for a month lol (like 5 different kinds of steak tho)
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Hoodwinker posted:I don't know if it's a startup but my company uses Fooda which is literally the same as Peach as described. The upshot for the employees is the company pays a daily stipend so lunch is subsidized. Building an app to facilitate employees spending employer cafeteria stipend money is without any question GWB
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FrozenVent posted:Yeah those food delivery apps just murder your budget. Got home late from work, don’t feel like cooking / grocery shopping? Order some sushi, it’s here in twenty minutes. Please don’t probate for self-posting, but this combined with depression is why I have spent $5-600 on eating “out” every month since late 2015 or so. Even getting stupid expensive frozen grocery store meals that you dump into a skillet/pot for 20 minutes is way better with money. I bet a lot of the people that spend so much money on food turn their noses up at anything frozen, though.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i did spend 1500 in one month on food once I could have never won the bet if it weren't for that half cow in the freezer.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i did spend 1500 in one month on food once I feel like I'd be sweating blood after this
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HELP! I've almost spent $1,500 on FOOD this month! I'm just one person; this is ridiculous! (I do adore bagels) 1st bit of money i've got and i want to invest in a hedge fund based on the lab grown meat industry. any suggestions? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/4x3vr7/1st_bit_of_money_ive_got_and_i_want_to_invest_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/3kteok/how_to_spend_and_save_money_in_the/ How to spend and save money in the rangeland/wilderness? quote:I am aware there are a lot of posts like this, and I read a few of them, but feel that my situation is unique and fun so I want to post anyway and see what you guys make of it. You are awesome and I appreciate you reading! Good Parmesan fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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-Can I pay money to import a foreign woman? Local girls are nonexistent. What will this cost? What will she do here for work? Do I pay her an allowance? My ex came to visit earlier this summer, words cannot describe what a disaster that was. I want a family.
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What an interesting and different perspective. I don't know that it's super bad with money, though. Like buying a bunch of dumb stuff is dumb but he seems to want to pay cash.
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Jordan7hm posted:-Can I pay money to import a foreign woman? Local girls are nonexistent. What will this cost? What will she do here for work? Do I pay her an allowance? My ex came to visit earlier this summer, words cannot describe what a disaster that was. I want a family. China.txt
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Jordan7hm posted:-Can I pay money to import a foreign woman? Local girls are nonexistent. What will this cost? What will she do here for work? Do I pay her an allowance? My ex came to visit earlier this summer, words cannot describe what a disaster that was. I want a family. This would have triggered Tiny Bronto so hard. RIP Tiny Bronto, being a kooky forums conspiracy theorist was shockingly bad with money for you.
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I saw that the living on a farm post or whatever was a couple years old so i looked at his reddit comment history to see if he had imported a wife to hilarious effect or anything like that but it's just a few posts where he argues about guns and guitars. Truly disappointing.
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But I need a companion that can fend for herself and not get killed by bears or lions like my dogs do. She’s not going anywhere without her 12-guage pump shotgun (loaded with slugs) in the pickup and 10mm automatic on her person.
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Not a Children posted:I feel like I'd be sweating blood after this i did have vegetables on the side
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I'm pretty sure he's just being funny rather than genuinely wanting to import a woman, just as he really wants a fancy guitar amp to yell at the mountains to keep the dog-eating lions away. It's a really interesting lifestyle and a cool post. He was smart enough to want to avoid going the way of lottery winners, so hopefully things worked out for him and he found a shotgun toting lady who wouldn't get eaten.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:This would have triggered Tiny Bronto so hard. RIP Tiny Bronto, being a kooky forums conspiracy theorist was shockingly bad with money for you. I just noticed she was perma-banned. RIP indeed. Short and sweet: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/80d72j/helping_my_mom_keep_her_house/ quote:So my dad was crap with money. Originally bought their house in 1998 for $ 160,000. Now In 2018 he has passed away and my mom owes $ 170,000 on the house. My father had a $100,000 life insurance policy. My mother makes appropriately $ 32,000 a year and mortgage payments are $ 1,600 a month. She can not afford a mortgage that high. Also, the house appraises for around $ 300,000 now. What can she do to keep the house?
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Rent it out for an amount of money that would allow her to afford the mortgage. Wait maybe that isn't what they meant by "keep the house"
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Hoodwinker posted:It would be pretty great to see all the same derails and arguments happen as we pass through every other subforum on Starship BWM. Somehow horses will still get brought up and people will still get annoyed about it. My friend have you heard of Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC?
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