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Field Mousepad posted:Man so many places I love are not gonna survive this Don't worry, all the chain microwave dinner restaurants with toxic atmospheres are waiting to buy up all the reduced priced places next year
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It's all Applebees from here on out  I'm glad I'm an almost chef so I can cook at home
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Field Mousepad posted:It's all Applebees from here on out An almost chef? We can hire you at $10 for the line. Get your plastic apron on, you can start in dish.
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May 1, 2020 20:25
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Mike the TV posted:An almost chef? We can hire you at $10 for the line. Get your plastic apron on, you can start in dish. You forgot the "Split shifts only for now, 10AM-2:30PM, 5:30PM-close" addition to that.
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May 1, 2020 20:55
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Only if I can help on prep and jump on line when they get hit and let the dishes back up and then get yelled at.
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May 1, 2020 20:56
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Do restaurants actually do the whole stab-and-chop humane lobster killing technique which seems obligatory for any YouTube video showing the preparation of lobster? My home-cook instincts say I would not want all those delicious head juices just leeching out into the cooking liquid.
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put em in the freezer for 20-30 mins before boiling i'd say do both but you can bypass it if head juice is yr thing i guess
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esperantinc posted:Can't wait for the Franchise Wars and then every restaurant is Taco Bell Could be worse, honestly.
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Field Mousepad posted:Man so many places I love are not gonna survive this it's really unsettling. before all of this, in the greater los angeles area from santa monica to westminster to arcadia to van nuys, i knew at least one decent place to grab a bite in almost every neighborhood. part of me refuses to believe that they could all close, but who knows? it's honestly a scary feeling
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I'm worried about my favorite after work pint shop, but I'm not checking their facebook because looking forward to going back there is a major light at the end of the tunnel that I'd rather assume is still there than know the truth.
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thotsky posted:Do restaurants actually do the whole stab-and-chop humane lobster killing technique which seems obligatory for any YouTube video showing the preparation of lobster? My home-cook instincts say I would not want all those delicious head juices just leeching out into the cooking liquid. Our chef was doing it one day and splitting them in half, but the legs were still squirming. Half of FOH didn't care and other half wouldn't walk into the kitchen until he was done prepping.
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I let my prep guy do whatever he wanted and we usually had 10 or less at a time but he'd make an ice bath for them, then stab and boil. I did make him name them though he named every one Miguelito
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Quabzor posted:Our chef was doing it one day and splitting them in half, but the legs were still squirming.
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Quabzor posted:Our chef was doing it one day and splitting them in half, but the legs were still squirming.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:it's honestly a scary feeling Remember just a scant couple months ago that someone (like myself) could pop in here, tell some horror story, and everyone would say "oh, just ditch that shithole; that's the good thing about the industry, you can get another job like that [snaps fingers]". The good ol' days.  Human Tornada posted:I'm worried about my favorite after work pint shop, but I'm not checking their facebook because looking forward to going back there is a major light at the end of the tunnel that I'd rather assume is still there than know the truth. My favorite watering hole had a devastating fire March 2019. Finally re-opened, after massive clean-up and renovation, in January, only to get shut down again. I can't imagine they're gonna bounce back from that double-whammy unless the owners are sitting on Scrooge McDuck piles of cash.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Remember just a scant couple months ago that someone (like myself) could pop in here, tell some horror story, and everyone would say "oh, just ditch that shithole; that's the good thing about the industry, you can get another job like that [snaps fingers]". I mean...you still can. It's just likely gonna be a job for Amazon which is an entirely different pile of bullshit (though no loving with your hours, that's one thing Amazon doesn't do). But yeah, I don't think anyone here expected the thread title to refer to the entire industry.
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Alkydere posted:I mean...you still can. It's just likely gonna be a job for Amazon which is an entirely different pile of bullshit (though no loving with your hours, that's one thing Amazon doesn't do). Some places might recover, certain places are turbo hosed. All the AYCE/buffet places? Toast. Korean BBQ? Shabu? Hot Pot? Japanese Steakhouse Benihana-style? Same. Any place that doesn't have a equivalent take out/delivery option of any kind, the places where the experience of the eating is half the fun aren't going to be able to reopen in any meaningful capacity and even when they give the "all clear" people will still avoid them just to be safe and get takeout from a traditional restaurant instead. An Applebees or local breakfast diner can still set up and have people sitting 6 ft apart, take out/pick up orders going out and hopefully scrape by.
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It really is a compounding the fact that wine and liquor is life. We can gently caress around selling to-go meals, but people buying cases of wine and to-go cocktails have come in so clutch for us breaking even. I don't think the liquor laws will ever be re-instated.
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Babylon Astronaut posted:It really is a compounding the fact that wine and liquor is life. We can gently caress around selling to-go meals, but people buying cases of wine and to-go cocktails have come in so clutch for us breaking even. I don't think the liquor laws will ever be re-instated. Ugh I wish this was a thing here. I'd kill for a brown butter old fashioned or some split base mezcal tiki poo poo without having to butter wash my own bourbon or make a bunch of syrups.
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Babylon Astronaut posted:It really is a compounding the fact that wine and liquor is life. We can gently caress around selling to-go meals, but people buying cases of wine and to-go cocktails have come in so clutch for us breaking even. I don't think the liquor laws will ever be re-instated. every bar without food is going to close, full stop. any stragglers who own the building they're in are still going to sit vacant for months and months the only restaurant in the part of town i'm in that reopened their dining room has like 50 taps and they're allowed 6 4-tops with the new regulations. they're doomed.
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SHVPS4DETH posted:every bar without food is going to close, full stop. any stragglers who own the building they're in are still going to sit vacant for months and months There are at least a couple local no food bars that are doing togo cocktails and wine sales that are doing more than fine and are not worried about closing. There is a lot to be said for quality of an establishment and the local loyalty to it.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:There are at least a couple local no food bars that are doing togo cocktails and wine sales that are doing more than fine and are not worried about closing. There is a lot to be said for quality of an establishment and the local loyalty to it. yeah i apologize for speaking in generalities. in omaha with the new rules you can’t sell a drink to someone if they don’t buy an entree first. bars are selling 6 packs for $6, and those places have kitchens; otherwise they’re closed or doing curbside package sales. all of the big draft bars have surely soaked a huge loss on those kegs they tapped in feb/march by now.
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A steakhouse near me lets you order $1 (actually good) draft beers with your to-go order. Otherwise they'll just have to dump it, and I'm sure they're just trying to recoup the keg fee. Keg beer does not last forever. If you ever wanted to get a very cheap keg, now is the time to call around to desperate restaurants.
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Mike the TV posted:If you ever wanted to get a very cheap keg, now is the time to call around to desperate restaurants. there is no way there isn’t a regulation they’d have to skirt to make that sale, and why would you want an already tapped keg?
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SHVPS4DETH posted:there is no way there isn’t a regulation they’d have to skirt to make that sale, and why would you want an already tapped keg? Lots of places are relaxing regulations for the duration though?
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SHVPS4DETH posted:there is no way there isn’t a regulation they’d have to skirt to make that sale, and why would you want an already tapped keg? 16 states and territories have changed the regulations to allow bars & restaurants to sell alcohol to go.
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bloody ghost titty posted:16 states and territories have changed the regulations to allow bars & restaurants to sell alcohol to go. I’m pretty sure all of Canada is also allowing To go alcohol sales for now as well.
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I wonder if the states that have recently allowed to go liquor sales are gonna try and take it back when we get closer to normal, and if they'll be able too. I don't see it happening, because even when restaurants are allowed to re-open to full capacity I'm betting take out orders are still going to be a much, much bigger portion of their revenue for a long time than in the past.
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Skwirl posted:I wonder if the states that have recently allowed to go liquor sales are gonna try and take it back when we get closer to normal, and if they'll be able too. I don't see it happening, because even when restaurants are allowed to re-open to full capacity I'm betting take out orders are still going to be a much, much bigger portion of their revenue for a long time than in the past. They need to get those quick seal lid machines you see at the boba places and then it can be like Starbucks but for alcohol.
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pentyne posted:They need to get those quick seal lid machines you see at the boba places and then it can be like Starbucks but for alcohol. Realistically, this could be the biggest step towards pre-prohibition alcohol culture the country has taken in a long time. A bartender friend and I were discussing the possibility of operating an old-style dram shop, where liquor could be contactlessly sold at a window from an automated pouring device; arguably under current approaches in a lot of places, that could be made very workably legal. New Orleans and other locales have long shown the viability of relaxed public drinking laws. The largest question will be whether or not this current situation sees an increase in drunk driving stops and dram shop liability claims.
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bloody ghost titty posted:16 states and territories have changed the regulations to allow bars & restaurants to sell alcohol to go. they aren’t making the same profit as draft sales cmon now they’re competing with grocery stores that isn’t the same thing at all
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SHVPS4DETH posted:they aren’t making the same profit as draft sales cmon They aren't really, unless you think selling soda to go was competing with grocery stores as well.
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Skwirl posted:They aren't really, unless you think selling soda to go was competing with grocery stores as well. Eh, this is a hard one. Most people know that buying a soft drink with their pita or whatever is going to cost them an extra $1, and they're fine with that. But it's only $1. Now restaurants are going from selling $7 pints (or more, of craft beer, at least around here) to competing with actual liquor outlets that are $2.50/can in a 6-pack. So do you keep selling your beer for 3x the price and hope that makes up for lower sales, or do you drop your prices and hopefully get people to pick up a 6-pack with their takeout food? I dunno. I'm not sure there's an easy answer (there are places doing both of those options around me)
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Naelyan posted:Eh, this is a hard one. Most people know that buying a soft drink with their pita or whatever is going to cost them an extra $1, and they're fine with that. But it's only $1. Now restaurants are going from selling $7 pints (or more, of craft beer, at least around here) to competing with actual liquor outlets that are $2.50/can in a 6-pack. So do you keep selling your beer for 3x the price and hope that makes up for lower sales, or do you drop your prices and hopefully get people to pick up a 6-pack with their takeout food? I dunno. I'm not sure there's an easy answer (there are places doing both of those options around me) I think a bit of a markup for a six pack to avoid making another stop is absolutely something people will pay for. I'd also pay 7 bucks for a togo pint assuming it was legal to drink it while going on my daily walk to help stave off cabin fever.
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Naelyan posted:Eh, this is a hard one. Most people know that buying a soft drink with their pita or whatever is going to cost them an extra $1, and they're fine with that. But it's only $1. Now restaurants are going from selling $7 pints (or more, of craft beer, at least around here) to competing with actual liquor outlets that are $2.50/can in a 6-pack. So do you keep selling your beer for 3x the price and hope that makes up for lower sales, or do you drop your prices and hopefully get people to pick up a 6-pack with their takeout food? I dunno. I'm not sure there's an easy answer (there are places doing both of those options around me) Our local beer bar delivers growler swaps and drat do I love it
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Our local beer bar delivers growler swaps and drat do I love it They show up with a full and you give them an empty? Nice.
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SHVPS4DETH posted:there is no way there isn’t a regulation they’d have to skirt to make that sale, and why would you want an already tapped keg? Who knows? If they're allowed to sell to-go now probably a lot of states didn't actually make anything specific enough to prohibit it. They already paid more in taxes for the keg than a consumer would pay for off-premise consumption anyway. They would effectively be stealing the metal keg itself as they don't own it and you probably won't return it, but you're more likely to get in trouble for stealing a blue pallet than a keg. source: me, a guy who had a kegerator and was always scrounging for kegs
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Naelyan posted:Eh, this is a hard one. Most people know that buying a soft drink with their pita or whatever is going to cost them an extra $1, and they're fine with that. But it's only $1. Now restaurants are going from selling $7 pints (or more, of craft beer, at least around here) to competing with actual liquor outlets that are $2.50/can in a 6-pack. So do you keep selling your beer for 3x the price and hope that makes up for lower sales, or do you drop your prices and hopefully get people to pick up a 6-pack with their takeout food? I dunno. I'm not sure there's an easy answer (there are places doing both of those options around me) One difference is that a lot of good beer is often available only on tap.
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Skwirl posted:I think a bit of a markup for a six pack to avoid making another stop is absolutely something people will pay for. I'd also pay 7 bucks for a togo pint assuming it was legal to drink it while going on my daily walk to help stave off cabin fever. i’ll admit i was thinking of a place here that’s selling like bottle pick 6 packs for $6 including like buds heavy and light (it’s smtg i drive past so i haven’t stared real close at it) which is absolutely competing with gas stations and grocery stores. my work is also liquidating beer and wine inventory for cheaper than what i’d pay at the craft beer store, but people aren’t buying much from what i’ve seen (namely inventory not changing) so as with most things rn it’s a weird mess and im only seeing what i see between my bed and work and an occasional grocery run.
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