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BRJurgis posted:The food truck craze broke peoples brains, lot of aspiring food truck owners out there. I know several people who will travel to a place just because they have a lobster roll food truck. Phil Greaves tier posting
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Professor Shark posted:Restaurants are one of those things I don’t really like as much after Covid quality of service has plummeted at so many places due to lack of staff. restaurants around here that used to be open till midnight pre-covid are closing at 9 or 10. Went to PF Chengs last night and we had a 20 minute wait despite half the tables being empty. The great restaurant die-off that started with covid isn't done yet
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The Nastier Nate posted:quality of service has plummeted at so many places due to lack of staff. restaurants around here that used to be open till midnight pre-covid are closing at 9 or 10. I noticed an IHOP the other day who's hours are now 6am to 3pm
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PokeJoe posted:My order is wrong like 70% of the time now no matter where I go lol The wrong order, all marked up 25% over 2 years ago, with smaller portions with worse ingredients. That's why you should come on down to Skooma's country kitchen, all your favs prepared in a galley kitchen in Van Nuys, just like the ghost kitchen you were gonna get food from anyway. Overcooked for safety and overseasoned to compensate for my allergies. Now recently roach free!
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my favorite local diner had a pretty good Monte Cristo sandwich that I hadn't had since 2020, so when I saw it on their lunch specials list recently I decided to stop in and get one previously it was a fried and battered sandwich with freshly carved ham and turkey, now it's a slice of french toast with a microwaved piece of sliced ham and a Kraft single on top
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Restaurants in particular are locked in a brutal struggle with their employees over wages Now if you took a basic economics course, you'd be taught that if demand for employees went up, wages would also go up. That's just not fuckin true. Every operation that doesn't pay people a lot of money right now is desperate desperate for people and their levels of service are massively suffering. In a perfect economist jackoff fantasy, this would mean they'd start paying people more money. But no business owner, no manager, no executive, nobody wants to do that. They hate hate hate the idea of paying humans more money with a particular severity. They're just trying to wait labor out and let everything suck for everyone until something happens where they get their way. It's like waiting for the striking miners to watch their families starve to such a degree that they agree to go back down the pit.
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Paladinus posted:Gah, my so-called friends once again invite me to partake of 'beef on weck'. They claim it's 'to die for'. No, thank you, you capitalist whores, I will instead glue a useless box and stare at a wall for three hours as part of my anti-capitalist meditation. “To die for”? no comrade I will only die for the working class.
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skooma512 posted:The wrong order, all marked up 25% over 2 years ago, with smaller portions with worse ingredients. how much of it is seasoned with moon sugar
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Why would they increase wages when the entire fiscal apparatus of the national government is holding weekly pressers announcing progress on the campaign to force people to work for the lower wages? There's a whole mass of lazy ingrates out there still living high on 2 grand they got 37 fiscal quarters ago!
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god drat i can't believe joe stanley laserpants owned the anti-super-sentai socialists online
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Imagine being that mad about power rangers
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The Chairman posted:my favorite local diner had a pretty good Monte Cristo sandwich that I hadn't had since 2020, so when I saw it on their lunch specials list recently I decided to stop in and get one Let me guess, the price went up too
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skooma512 posted:The wrong order, all marked up 25% over 2 years ago, with smaller portions with worse ingredients. My company did some pretty extensive market research that found we have like 80% accuracy and now we're all confused why it's that good lol.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Lobster being a luxury food is so strange. It's a giant sea bug. Back in the day we used to feed them to prisoners. I've heard stories from old folks on the east coast talking about how, as kids, having lobster in your lunch instantly marked you as being poverty-stricken. Sometimes they would dump their lobster in the gutter out of shame and lust after the rich kid's bologna sandwiches. Shame Boy posted:Which Canadian province is the third world one No-one answered this pages ago, but it's Nunavut and the North-West Territories, but more specifically, wherever indigenous people live. B.C. is one of the more prosperous provinces. Svaha has issued a correction as of 00:51 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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The Chairman posted:my favorite local diner had a pretty good Monte Cristo sandwich that I hadn't had since 2020, so when I saw it on their lunch specials list recently I decided to stop in and get one yeah the quality drop has really put me off restaurants i'm particularly sad that this happened to our favorite texmex place too, it used to be one of the few places that does a nice crispy chile relleno, and now that's completely gone along with half the former menu, and what remains is a completely generic fast food texmex menu that tastes like it comes out of a plastic tub the restaurants are going the way of the movie theaters
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Shame Boy posted:Imagine being that mad about power rangers Love going to bat for colossal piece of poo poo Hiam Saban
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i feel like sucha boomer for this restaurant story but im loving telling it anyway we went to a place i eat at three times a week on new years day. its a greasy spoon, you pay at the counter first and then they bring the food out, you help yourself to condiments, drinks, coffee, etc. as i mentioned they know me there, i eat there a lot since i work from home and sometimes its just nice to get out. wife orders a bowl of oatmeal, kid orders chicken tenders on a waffle, i get a standard breakfast 2 over with bacon, hashbrowns and toast. $53 with the $8 tip, paid in advance. we wait half an hour. im very very forgiving when it comes to service people working on holidays, so i didnt say a drat thing. then my food came out. no one else's, and no toast. we wait for another half an hour, my family admonishing me to eat so it wont get cold even though i was raised catholic so its physically impossible. i do end up eating about half of it at which point no one else's food has come out so i ask the guy to check. he says he will, but i watch him not. we wait another ten minutes, at which point i watch the guy take my kids' food to another table and get yelled at for it by a different runner. the BOWL OF OATMEAL still isn't out yet. i take my check up to the register and wait in line to ask to talk to the manager. i tell him i want my money back. all my money. he asks 'well what food didnt come out?' and in the interim, they had taken the oatmeal back in to the kitchen to disgsustingly and illegally re-serve. he glances at the check, then the table, then me, and just stonewalls me. literally does not say a word while he stares at me with 10 people behind me in line. he knows god drat well what happened because he was just berating the server about it but in spite of me eating there dozens if not hundreds of times, he wasn't going to give in. so after what was probably 90 seconds but felt like ten minutes i said okay bud, you keep the $53 and i'll just never come back. he starts with the oh i'm sorry sir and I was not having it so I just said well, you don't sound sorry. didn't make a big scene, just got my poo poo and left. emailed the owner and no response, so now the credit union will get us our money back. but god drat if that wasn't a ruinous, lovely start to the new year. gently caress eating out. why is chili's $98, for example? don't subsidize trash, learn to cook. and get the gently caress offa my lawn.
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boar guy posted:i feel like sucha boomer for this restaurant story but im loving telling it anyway lol, loving owned
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remember when state and national restaurant associations were the biggest pieces of poo poo about basic public safety during the pandemic that it turned “line cooks” into the deadliest job 
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$60 and 90+ minutes to eat two cold eggs and expose your whole family to covid
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boar guy posted:i feel like sucha boomer for this restaurant story but im loving telling it anyway If it was a boomer story you would have smugly made a 15 year old cry
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boar guy posted:i feel like sucha boomer for this restaurant story but im loving telling it anyway you could have made those dishes in like 12 minutes. Restaurants have gotten so lovely as a result of the labor market correction but it's OK I can cook a lot of that stuff at home. The whole thing was a bougie construct to be able to act like lords and ladies for an evening anyways
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Imagine eating in a restaurant in the plague era lol
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don't give chili's $100 to serve you something you can cook up for $15-$25 at home. it was always absurd to do this when restaurants hadn't jacked their prices to the moon but now it's literally bad money management from any sensible perspective. only patronize restaurants that are either cheap and good, or which give you something you don't have a chance in hell of cooking at home
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Jazerus posted:or which give you something you don't have a chance in hell of cooking at home If I make tacos at home my 4yo cries and runs away.
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PerniciousKnid posted:If I make tacos at home my 4yo cries and runs away. https://www.allrecipes.com/gallery/taco-bell-copycat-recipes/ I don't know what to tell you if your kid is hooked on Del Taco, though.
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what if i'm an useless fail idiot huh what then (i'm slowly learning how to cook more and more as part of coming back from a very long depression)
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tokin opposition posted:what if i'm an useless fail idiot huh what then nobody tells you this but in those cases you can just eat the ingredients or a box of offbrand crackers or make sad cheese on toast or something
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The value of paying to eat at a restaurant isn't the food, or even the time to make the food. The real benefit for your money is not having to wash the dishes.
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Tendales posted:The value of paying to eat at a restaurant isn't the food, or even the time to make the food. The real benefit for your money is not having to wash the dishes. get a partner who prefers doing dishes to cooking 
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The concept of going out to eat to save time or even money is ridiculous in a world where daal is a thing. You go out if you want something you can't/won't make yourself.
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If you clean the dishes immediately instead of letting them sit there all gross and poo poo getting crustier by the minute it ends up not being a big deal.
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No I won't, because a big mac has been scientifically engineered over several decades to fire my reward centers in ways bread and cheese and roast beef alone are simply incapable of. The Demilich posted:If you clean the dishes immediately instead of letting them sit there all gross and poo poo getting crustier by the minute it ends up not being a big deal. If you're a responsible adult without depression and/or ADHD life is easier, news at 11
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The Demilich posted:If you clean the dishes immediately instead of letting them sit there all gross and poo poo getting crustier by the minute it ends up not being a big deal.  to avoid having to wash lots of dishes at one time, wash dishes as soon as you're able
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