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Powerful Katrinka posted:Those chairs look like actual garbage They're literal garbage.
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oh rly posted:Tell us more about the pizzatitty place. Do you have an idea on why it failed? Got the old name? Pizzatitty place was in the middle of nowhere for starters. I got there by way of punkin holler road, as an example of how remote this place was. Generally you’d want to be visible from the freeway so lonely dudes know where to pull off for a sniff, but I feel like you’d literally never find this place by accident. Then behind the bar in this rural Pennsylvania unincorporated area was a sign that said “no club colors” which tells me that the crowd had not been very chill. Then the stage was like an afterthought like they made it a titty bar when they realized there wasn’t enough traffic and they didn’t have a lot of cash on hand. The guy said theft is what eventually did him under. He said the drawer and the bottles were just always light no matter how many people he fired. And I can believe it because if I was a stripper dancing for four dudes making loving $30 in tips I’d rob the till to square up, too.
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Oct 18, 2022 14:30
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You should sell cookies in the afternoon so you can hit up the kids coming out of school/parents going to pick them up then too.
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Oct 18, 2022 14:34
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builds character posted:You should sell cookies in the afternoon so you can hit up the kids coming out of school/parents going to pick them up then too. Yeah definitely the distributor sells frozen cookie dough at like .40 a cookie that you just dump on a tray and bake. $2 or 2/$3 all day long.
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Oct 18, 2022 14:37
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Why even close? Coffee and donuts for commuters in the morning, cookies for kids in the afternoon, and shots and beers at night. You can sell any “waste” donuts for a discount to the bar flies at night too to eliminate your waste problem.
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Oct 18, 2022 14:52
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Rationale posted:
this is just a picture of a bunch of chairs and junk fake thread
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Oct 18, 2022 15:22
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If you won't listen to this thread, at least listen to your uhaul
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Oct 18, 2022 15:30
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Rationale posted:A big part of my model is about employee buy-in. If everyone’s pay is yoked to the till they’ll be more interested in getting transactions wrapped up quickly and correctly. The whole team will be interested in getting new hires up to speed. The whole team will be interested in the continued success of the enterprise. Everything you've posted so far is full of red flags but this is one of the most hilarious. It's obvious you've never worked somewhere with sales people on commission, or at least not closely enough to them to understand how this works out. You, the owner of this building and business have long term goals. Someone selling poo poo has only short term economic incentives - very short in fact - and will have no reason to care about your long term success. They will never own the building/donut shop nor do they want to work there forever. They need to get while the gettin is good. Will everyone conduct themselves this way? Of course not. Some will just sit back and let the eager suckers do the work for them. None of this is a substitute for training, management, supervision and proper business/money handling procedures. None of this is going to prevent batch mistakes by someone doing the same goddamn thing every day for weeks at a time. None of this is going to stop people pillaging the till. Just like the laundry list of other things, in this you have not figured out "that one weird trick" that all these business nerds with their spreadsheets and business plans have missed.
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Oct 18, 2022 15:47
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When we went to liquidation sales we were a lot more discerning. Even going so far as to try and save on the uhaul cost. A colleague who was less so, offered us a derelict
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Oct 18, 2022 15:53
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Is it bad that I can smell the chairs when I see that picture?
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Oct 18, 2022 15:56
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Is it bad that I can smell the chairs when I see that picture? I wouldn’t out myself as a guy who smells chairs
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Oct 18, 2022 16:23
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:Why even close? Coffee and donuts for commuters in the morning, cookies for kids in the afternoon, and shots and beers at night. You can sell any “waste” donuts for a discount to the bar flies at night too to eliminate your waste problem. OP has the waste problem figured out. Send them to the homeless shelter, and you get some sick tax incentives! Other than that, staying open is a pretty solid idea. I wonder if OP is familiar with standard profit margins on alcohol? That’s free money.
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Oct 18, 2022 17:05
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It's weird you are buying restaurant stuff in bulk because of getting such great "deals". This usually ends with a restaurant full of lovely, old, mismatching décor and things that break where you have no warranty or service contract for repair so it costs 4x to get it fixed.
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Oct 18, 2022 17:31
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What you call “mismatched” I call “fun and quirky”
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Oct 18, 2022 17:44
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oh rly posted:Tell us more about the pizzatitty place. Do you have an idea on why it failed? Got the old name? TikTok keeps trying very hard to convince me that lingerie baristas are a thing. Maybe he can throw on a corset and work front counter too.
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Sundae posted:TikTok keeps trying very hard to convince me that lingerie baristas are a thing. Maybe he can throw on a corset and work front counter too. That's been a thing in CA for decades for the lingerie Vietnamese coffee places.
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Oct 18, 2022 18:02
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Oct 18, 2022 18:27
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Upgrade posted:Full send, all gas, no brakes, gently caress permits take a sledgehammer to your brick walls I want to hire you to open a donut shop across from the OP.
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Oct 18, 2022 18:33
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Elephanthead posted:I want to hire you to open a donut shop across from the OP. Hell yeah, someone start a goon fund for Upgrade's Coffee and Donuts: It's an Upgrade on the Competition
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Oct 18, 2022 18:37
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Was the reach in operating and down to temp when you bought it? If not it's very unlikely it works at all and will cost you a few hundred bucks to just dispose of it. Likely a lot more to make it work. Those chairs are "fire house chairs" and I remember restaurants finally getting rid of them en mass in the early 2000s. The fryers are way too small and don't have the correct rack for donuts. I doubt you can even get the correct rack in that width. The "stage lighting" is trash. Nobody uses incandescent lights like that anymore because buying LED ones pays for itself in not many hours of runtime. Have you actually run the mixer? They're pretty stout but it's not unheard of for them to the motor/transmission/bearing problems.
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Oct 18, 2022 18:38
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Ok with pictures I'm back in on this thread.
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Oct 18, 2022 19:08
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Motronic posted:Was the reach in operating and down to temp when you bought it? If not it's very unlikely it works at all and will cost you a few hundred bucks to just dispose of it. Likely a lot more to make it work. Auctioneers posted some sort of operational warranty but if it’s busted my union hall buddy is an hvac/r tech and he claims he’ll fix anything that heats or cools and he lives a few blocks from the shop. There’s $1.25 of firewood in those chairs The fryers aren’t really pertinent to donuts but I got them for $40 and theyre $1755 new so eat my rear end nerd. You can’t get an air fryer for $80. Are they gonna be $3000 hosed up or will they spit out like a hundred pounds of fries an hour in my next wildly successful enterprise Stage lighting yeah not really even worth the $50 but io was already taking a uhaul out there so gently caress it As for the mixer no I bought it sight unseen because the stickers looked fresh which told me it hadn’t been used hard. The mixer was the primary reason I was looking at the auction and I had originally “budgeted” 5k for a good mixer so instead I got this one plus a bunch of other poo poo for $5100 and we’re gonna see how it shakes out. Some other goon was telling me I couldn’t use my kitchen aid and I didn’t respond because how rude Donut guy has a belshaw adamatic 718 along with a glazing table, speedracks, proofers, a dough sheeter, pedal filler, various and sundry small wares. He gave me the Lester chastain dvd and told me to reach out in November. I’m not sure how much to offer or if I should mention the deals I’ve been getting. Then I still have to get all the coffee stuff Electrician quoted 17k
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Oct 18, 2022 19:52
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Oh, the "donut guy" is just someone offloading one piece. I thought you were talking about a sales rep. This thread dredging up memories i didn't know i had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeYNmqp8X4
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Oct 18, 2022 20:01
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Rationale posted:Auctioneers posted some sort of operational warranty but if it’s busted my union hall buddy is an hvac/r tech and he claims he’ll fix anything that heats or cools and he lives a few blocks from the shop. Of course he will. The point is whether he's working for free and paying for all the parts and gas you need. I'm gonna guess that's a "no". Just lol to the rest of this. You have no idea what your startup costs are because you're just buying junk lots of poo poo, some of which may work, and most of which isn't usable for your donut business. Or is your side hustle now going to be used restaurant equipment? Maybe if you do that you can fund your donut venture so you have that sweet sweet 3 am to 4 pm hobby job. Then you can go around back and scrub out nasty old fryers and beg guys at the hall to fix portable refrigeration equipment for day old donuts until 7 or 8 pm and figure out where to sell them so you can keep your donut shop open.
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Oct 18, 2022 20:14
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Brother, you are manic.
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Oct 18, 2022 20:16
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So I’m not a kitchen guy but you’re a psychiatrist
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Oct 18, 2022 20:54
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I'm a non-practicing mental health professional and I'm not seeing mania, but I would very much like to see pictures of your kitchen, bedroom and living room, as they are right now, without doing any cleanup or.. intentional dirtying. I got a theory
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Oct 18, 2022 21:08
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That’s a weird ask bro let me see yours first
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Oct 18, 2022 21:18
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Rationale posted:That’s a weird ask bro let me see yours first And these are some strange happenings, dog!! I'm just curious what the situation is at home
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Oct 18, 2022 21:24
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Stop being a creep dude. I did some research.  They don't have an intercom, I was at the window for less than 60 seconds. $22 before tip
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Oct 18, 2022 21:28
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Epitope posted:Stop being a creep dude. Motronic posted:
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Oct 18, 2022 21:39
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I’m closer than I was last week
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Oct 18, 2022 21:49
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Epitope posted:Stop being a creep dude. Those look pretty good but that price seems high so you pay a paradise tax?
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Stuff costs more here than the midwest, if that's what you mean I forgot to say I think there were two people working in the front of the house, but I couldn't see that well Epitope fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Oct 18, 2022 |
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Oct 18, 2022 22:12
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Residency Evil posted:Ok with pictures I'm back in on this thread.
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Oct 18, 2022 23:31
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Residency Evil posted:Ok with pictures I'm back in on this thread.
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Oct 18, 2022 23:33
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I have to admit that the idea of a savory donut option is very appealing. However a ham gruyere donut would sell for like five bucks minimum.
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Oct 18, 2022 23:35
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good luck OP, your donut shop will only succeed if you keep this thread updated. remember that.
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Rationale posted:I’m closer than I was last week Are you, though? You don't know what works, you spent money on literal garbage--those chairs aren't firewood, especially the plastic and metal ones in the U-Haul picture--you don't know if you even bought the right kind of fryer--but talking about expanding into making french fries when you haven't even made a single example of your main product Go make some donuts, I can't say it enough. YOU NEED TO KNOW IF YOU LIKE AND ARE ANY GOOD AT MAKING DONUTS
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Powerful Katrinka posted:Are you, though? You don't know what works, you spent money on literal garbage--those chairs aren't firewood, especially the plastic and metal ones in the U-Haul picture--you don't know if you even bought the right kind of fryer--but talking about expanding into making french fries when you haven't even made a single example of your main product What did you do yesterday? Rationale fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Oct 19, 2022 |
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