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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I have no math and I must cream Going to be hard to do batter than that.
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Pictures of restaurant equipment fished out of a dumpster are all very well, but I want to see pictures of donuts made by the OP. Make some donuts.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:08
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OP has already assured us that he made a single donut out of prepackaged dough and it came out delicious. This part of the research is done and was obviously quite successful. All that remains is buying equipment.
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Oct 19, 2022 18:19
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Where are you located? I’ll buy a dozen donuts from you
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Oct 19, 2022 18:43
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Rationale posted:Once there are 40-50 dozen sold every time the clock hits midnight we can begin to think about hiring counter staff I think this is a much better idea. Maybe not for someone who has capital and a clear path, but for you trying to learn and build from a shoestring. If you fail, lower consequences. If things are working, you can build from there.
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Epitope posted:I think this is a much better idea. Maybe not for someone who has capital and a clear path, but for you trying to learn and build from a shoestring. If you fail, lower consequences. If things are working, you can build from there. I’ll be honest I was getting excited for the catastrophe we all saw coming. This is achievable and limits risk - so I for one oppose it.
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pseudanonymous posted:I’ll be honest I was getting excited for the catastrophe we all saw coming. I'm not sure what you're all on about. This still requires setting up a commercial kitchen that passes building, fire and health inspections. And our protagonist is still absolutely 100% going to want to do this with the commercial gear setup from the other town's
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Oct 19, 2022 19:30
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I’ve been building kitchens for ten years.
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Oct 19, 2022 19:34
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Rationale posted:I’ve been building kitchens for ten years. Yet are somehow baffled and offended by a code official wanting engineering signoff on blowing holes in structural masonry walls......
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Oct 19, 2022 19:36
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Chafing under regulatory control over your operation, a rare quality in business owners
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Oct 19, 2022 19:39
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OP I am curious to know how your wife feels about this.
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Oct 19, 2022 19:43
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Started off with cake donuts; ended up razed
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Oct 19, 2022 19:45
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Ohtori Akio posted:OP I am curious to know how your wife feels about this. She was giving me a lot of poo poo about it until I bought maybe 200 tennis balls and put them all through the house now she gives me poo poo about that instead
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Oct 19, 2022 19:54
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Not trying to doxx, but was more just curious. I took a look at the streetview of the closed down pizzeria from your invoice and poked around the building's history, and honestly I'm amazed anyone ever tried to put a restaurant in that location in the first place.  How does your donut shop's location compare, in terms of density/traffic, to that pizzeria? I don't think you could run a successful anything out of that pizzeria's location (maybe an ag store?) and if yours is comparable, Saint Dunkin himself couldn't keep the lights on in it.
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Oct 19, 2022 20:18
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Hey, we've been over this: knowing things is for losers, OP's got this on lock
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https://imgur.com/a/X99lIDS I’m not sure how to quantify my location vs pizza tits and Busch light but it’s a lot better. Like, there’s a stoplight by the store, I don’t think there was one within fifty miles of the pizza slut palace
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Rationale posted:https://imgur.com/a/X99lIDS Have you researched why there are no competing businesses within 15 minutes of the location? Do you have a plan for what you'll do if a Starbucks or a Dunkin opens across the street?
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A bakery actually opened back up nearby but it’s gonna have a all the same problems the last people had with it. If a global conglomerate sets up shop across the street I guess I’ll have no other choice than to gently caress Marsha Brady Rationale fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Oct 19, 2022 |
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Rationale posted:A bakery actually opened back up nearby but it’s gonna have a Ok, kayfabe: Pray tell, goon sir, what problems did it have? And why won't you have these problems?
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Sundae posted:Not trying to doxx, but was more just curious. I took a look at the streetview of the closed down pizzeria from your invoice and poked around the building's history, and honestly I'm amazed anyone ever tried to put a restaurant in that location in the first place. These are all excellent questions but I think another good one that should be considered is "Donuts are made for the morning, are you willing to wake up at 3-4am every morning to get your business running"
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All this talk about donuts and nothing about the coffee. What's your coffee price point gonna be? I know the US is pretty infamous for the Starbucks overpriced coffee culture, but you're either competing with literal gas stations or those $6/cup hipster shops that import and roast their own beans. People want one or the other, it's not an interchangeable product experience.
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Oct 20, 2022 17:08
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i want to support the goon donut endeavor, where are you at donut man
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Admiralty Flag posted:C'mon, dude, you gotta try harder than that while trolling. I posted about this upthread The lady that sold it told me she was getting out because she couldn’t stand donuts anymore. She did everything herself by hand and sold out before ten most days. The location doesn’t have any parking or a drive-through and it’s tucked away in the old downtown on a side street. The sort of people you see walking around downtown here aren’t the type you’d want in your store. This lady sold exclusively to the people who were driving by when there happened to be a parking spot and didn’t seem to want any more business than that. Then beyond that the new owners aren’t as crafty as she was. They keep posting the ugliest goddamn confectionery on their Facebook . Today it was chocolate cupcakes where the icing wasn’t stiff enough so it sagged and looked like dog turds with sprinkles. They’ve posted cakes that look like they were made by a single mother of three who forgot all about the birthday. I’m not even gonna try to hire these folks when they go under.
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Rationale posted:The sort of people you see walking around downtown here aren’t the type you’d want in your store. You're going to need to explain this because it's coming off as seriously racist or classist.
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pentyne posted:You're going to need to explain this because it's coming off as seriously racist or classist. Rationale posted:pizza tits
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pentyne posted:You're going to need to explain this because it's coming off as seriously racist or classist. Sirotan posted:op I see your profile says you are in Ohio pretty well explained if you ask me, who the heck is walking around Ohio on a sidewalk? they are probably zombies.
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Wow. Just because they shamble around endlessly wishing they had brains, that doesn't mean Ohioans aren't people too
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pentyne posted:All this talk about donuts and nothing about the coffee. I’m just about certain that I’ll use a local roaster for the beans. His product is good and his prices are okay. I’d like to set the price of a 16oz latte at $3 just so a fiver gets you a nice coffee and a fancy donut. Then I think I’ll also sell some stuff dirt cheap for the people like dollar drip, dollar raised glazed, loss leaders I think they’re called. I want people to come by every day and not just on payday.
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UnleashedDad posted:These are all excellent questions but I think another good one that should be considered is "Donuts are made for the morning, are you willing to wake up at 3-4am every morning to get your business running" I was thinking closer to 1am or so and yeah my lifestyle is bad right now.
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No thanks, I don’t need to deposit my paycheck - i’m taking the cash straight to the donut shop
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You’re right I’ll do better
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:i want to support the goon donut endeavor, where are you at donut man I’ll hit you up once the kitchen gets a certificate and you can consult for me
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a.p. dent posted:No thanks, I don’t need to deposit my paycheck - i’m taking the cash straight to the donut shop The average household income in town is 41,000.
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a.p. dent posted:No thanks, I don’t need to deposit my paycheck - i’m taking the cash straight to the donut shop There's another brilliant revenue stream. Coffee, Donuts & Check Cashing. Rationale posted:The average household income in town is 41,000. What a great area to start a business. If only there were some way to estimate what impacts that kind of thing would have and whether it's viable to operate a business of this type in such a place. But unfortunately only loving nerds know how to do that stuff so you better just send it and see what happens.
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name it triple D donuts in honor of the titty chairs. maybe it’ll summon Guy Fieri to bless your business
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Rationale posted:I’ll hit you up once the kitchen gets a certificate and you can consult for me i don't know poo poo about the donut business but sure sounds good
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My racist cousin lives in Columbus. He's a kitchen manager too. We had some good road trips, need an excuse to get the band back together
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Sluts and their donut holes
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OP what are you calling your donut emporium?
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Motronic posted:There's another brilliant revenue stream. Coffee, Donuts & Check Cashing. Some other dick said “$75K is not enough to start even a small donut shop. Two or three pieces of equipment break, and that money could be eaten up by replacements/repairs, plus restaurant equipment is expensive, even second-hand stuff. You're not going to be able to get everything on sale, either. Have you at least perused a couple equipment websites to get an idea of what you need and what it'll cost? What size mixer are you going to use? You can't use a tabletop stand mixer, you're making 15lbs of mix, minimum, before adding water.” So I went and got a commercial mixer at an astonishing discount and dude’s still acting like I’m not…serious enough? I don’t know. Maybe focus less on my disdain for your “go take some classes about it” vibe and more on the advice that I am taking from goons and implementing in the real world. What you guys present as fatal flaws are what I call “challenges” that can be “overcome”.
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