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I tried to watch the video but about a quarter through I realized they were literally not going to shut up about toast and they were going to say A LOT of pretentious words to describe said toast. But if morons are lining up to throw money at business owners, who are they to turn it down?
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Man, I just don't know at this point. Good for them for selling toast to idiots I guess. gently caress it. My back hurts.
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Sep 18, 2016 06:24
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RedMage129 posted:I tried to watch the video but about a quarter through I realized they were literally not going to shut up about toast and they were going to say A LOT of pretentious words to describe said toast. But if morons are lining up to throw money at business owners, who are they to turn it down? selling artisan toast, so the shop owners can buy beard wax, so the beard wax salesman can buy wooden glasses, so the glasses craftsman can buy virtual space ships? at what point does anyone in america produce anything of actual use?
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Sep 18, 2016 07:05
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Rutibex posted:selling artisan toast, so the shop owners can buy beard wax, so the beard wax salesman can buy wooden glasses, so the glasses craftsman can buy virtual space ships? Weed farmers.
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Sep 18, 2016 07:06
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Wendigee posted:As soon as you stop making GBS threads up the chinar threads. You seem upset lol
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Sep 18, 2016 07:09
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I like how the one guy in the video is trying to be all dismissive about "people are saying it's a some kind of reflection of the tech guys faaaaaaaaaaaaart." It is, though. It's a food you can feed to a child that's ready for solids. Tech dudes are, in my experience, basically tall children that have money. I'm up in New San Francisco, Oregon, and we have several food carts specializing in this kind of thing. We have one that's so successful at just selling grilled cheese that they have a mobile operation and I think they do catering. There's a peanut butter and jelly cart right next to a french fry cart that also has a pbj option. My girlfriend's spot will sell you a fried bologna sandwich for like twelve bucks. The best way to make money in the restaurant game when the tech guys descend is apparently to find something that a two year old would like that costs about a buck to make, and then sell it for eight dollars. I don't think anybody is doing elevated chicken strips yet, so if you have a bunch of money you don't care about and would like to make too much money off it, hit me up. Set up next to a titty bar, call it STRIPPED in a cool font, write the menu like "STRIP - slaw" and you can flip seventy five cent chicken strips with a nickle's worth of slaw for about seven bucks a pop all day long. Once that makes its first hundred grand we can do a sitdown called ILLness that just does canned chicken and stars with some green onions chopped on top for 13 a bowl and has a sort of limp hiphop theme. Get at me, this is not a complicated market
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Sep 18, 2016 07:36
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Cowboy Pope posted:The best way to make money in the restaurant game when the tech guys descend is apparently to find something that a two year old would like that costs about a buck to make, and then sell it for eight dollars. I don't think anybody is doing elevated chicken strips yet, so if you have a bunch of money you don't care about and would like to make too much money off it, hit me up. Set up next to a titty bar, call it STRIPPED in a cool font, write the menu like "STRIP - slaw" and you can flip seventy five cent chicken strips with a nickle's worth of slaw for about seven bucks a pop all day long. on it as we speak
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Sep 18, 2016 07:41
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im going to open a hipster cafe where you can have any can of soup from anywhere in the world. you want polish chicken noodle soup? we got that! how about chinese Italian Wedding? of course! will even microwave it for you. crackers are extra
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Sep 18, 2016 07:53
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artisinal toast place near me is more expensive. i was curious. http://sqirlla.com/menu/ i postedthis place earlier itt but no menu. i went there 1nce with my girl friend and the line was 99999999999999999 ppl long. fail. was deece i guess but w/e
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Sep 18, 2016 10:19
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i think their jam is special or something. i dont like that place
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Sep 18, 2016 10:20
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I had to google what Chicken Strips was. Isn't that just chicken nuggets?
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Sep 18, 2016 10:37
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Zzulu posted:I had to google what Chicken Strips was. Isn't that just chicken nuggets? ???
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Sep 18, 2016 10:43
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I'm assuming your username is a shared account for the zulu tribe of zimbabwe
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Sep 18, 2016 10:44
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I live near a Denny's and their french toast is $7.89.
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Sep 18, 2016 12:19
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There is a fancy chicken strip place in Phily, don't remember the name but it is in the gayborhood. poo poo was delicious though, I think they must pressure fry them as even the whitemeat ones were most as gently caress. They had some bomb rear end sauces too. +A would spend $8 on chicken strips again.
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There's a deeper reason this poo poo is stupid. First of all, according to their menu, the first listed toast (Dark Mountain Rye w/ Cream Cheese) is FIVE DOLLARS. Now whether or not you think five bux is ok for a toasted piece of bread doesn't matter yet. Maybe the bread is super fuckin expensive and is made from flour that is from the rear end end of the universe or something. Scroll down the menu and you'll see the prices for whole loaves of bread. The same bread that goes into the rye w/ cream cheese is $7.50. Last I checked making bread dough, taking time to let it rise, and baking it is way harder than cutting off a piece of a finished product and throwin it in a fuckin toaster for a minute. But somehow, the cut, toast, spread cheese on it process makes it worth 2/3 of the product it came from. Whole loaf - $7.50 One Slice of Toast - $5.00 seriously what the gently caress sudonim fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Sep 18, 2016 16:17
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jigglemaster7 posted:gentrification is good imo. idk why you dumbass retards are complaining about your city being nicer
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Sep 18, 2016 16:27
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sudonim posted:Whole loaf - $7.50 Omg. Cannot. Unsee. 
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Sep 18, 2016 18:46
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Smythe posted:Omg. Cannot. Unsee. U r mean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 18, 2016 18:46
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u r a cruel mod please cease and desist this atrocity at once!!!!!!!!
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Sep 18, 2016 18:46
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I'm not really mad, just kind of angry. Im just praying for the Big One to come soon so the whole wretched state can be crushed and washed into the sea.
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the great deceiver posted:baking bread is labor intensive also you need to count the cost of labor & ingredients for the toppings such as jam, fresh-made butter etc. overhead in SF is gonna be a lot more than overhead in richmond or san leandro so of course your prices are gonna seem higher. $4 for this dish is not unreasonable at all imo but then again maybe i've worked in the restaurant biz too long to have perspective You're way overblowing how labor intensive all this is. For this 'dish' it's a buttered piece of toast. I mean sorry but you're completely ignoring scale here it's not like they are making one loaf at a time and hand churning small batches of butter (pretty sure they buy that anyway). Business Insider posted:Today, The Mill serves 400 slices of toast on the average weekend day, with as many as six four-slice toasters going at once. 400 x $4 = $1600 a day there's no way it costs anything near that to operate this business. Even if they only do half that on weekdays that's still bank for what it is. The rent can only be something like $7-8 per sq ft per month which is only a few grand at most and the labor for 2-3 people to operate a couple toasters and work the register is only a few grand per month as well. Seems to me like they can meet their operating expenses in about a week even if ingredients and materials are half of the cost of each dish (they aren't). e: Germstore posted:He didn't bake the bread though. He bought bread from a bakery, which sandwich shops do as well, but I would argue that sandwiches are far more transformative than toast.  Roylicious fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Sep 18, 2016 19:10
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Roylicious posted:You're way overblowing how labor intensive all this is. For this 'dish' it's a buttered piece of toast. It isn't. I wasn't paying much attention.
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Sep 18, 2016 19:23
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Still it's not like he's making one loaf at a time, with a commercial kitchen you can easily crank out a lot of bread every AM. I mean it's a smart business model for taking advantage of autist tech yuppies with too much cash to burn but it's pretty niche and I don't see it becoming a popular craze or something.
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Sep 18, 2016 19:24
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I went to one of these places in the SF Sunset district once. The guy behind the register was complaining about gentrification and yuppies while working at a coffee shop serving $5 toast. It was pretty much SF in a nutshell
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Sep 18, 2016 19:31
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Why are people complaining about $4 toast when their coffee costs $20.
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Sep 18, 2016 20:24
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Roylicious posted:You're way overblowing how labor intensive all this is. For this 'dish' it's a buttered piece of toast. i guess the more important point is if you can get away with charging $4 for toast why the gently caress wouldn't you
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Sep 18, 2016 20:27
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the great deceiver posted:i guess the more important point is if you can get away with charging $4 for toast why the gently caress wouldn't you benis man
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Sep 18, 2016 20:33
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seems like the kind of place that does well at first since everyone wants to see what the hype is about but then dies off since no one is going to be a regular customer of the $4 toast place. kind of like all those cupcake shops that were really popular 4-5 years ago.
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Sep 18, 2016 20:41
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yoloer420 posted:I couldn't tell the difference between German and Swiss German when I was in Zurich. Same thing imo. They speak more standard German to people who aren't Swiss I think, then the Germans say "oh Swiss German isn't so difficult after all" (based on what the Swiss and Germans said, my German isn't good enough to pick up anything other than more obvious vocab difference s) Plus Zurich is Zurich and not a tiny little german farmer town obv
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Sep 18, 2016 20:42
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The original $4 toast lady is mentally ill and making toast was the only job she could handle
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Sep 18, 2016 21:09
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GastonEatTheEggs posted:seems like the kind of place that does well at first since everyone wants to see what the hype is about but then dies off since no one is going to be a regular customer of the $4 toast place. boomhaur only got so far before dale got gay with him
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the great deceiver posted:i guess the more important point is if you can get away with charging $4 for toast why the gently caress wouldn't you Yeah it's the customers who are stupid enough to make a market for this, the guy is just taking advantage of a business opportunity. Like I pointed out, just spend 2.50 more and get the whole goddamn loaf and have like 10 pieces of toast at home. And who goes out for toast anyway? So fuckin weird. I was also trying to figure out what's up with the $20 coffee. I'm hoping that's for bags of beans or something. Still steep but not insane like a  cup a joe.
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the great deceiver posted:i guess the more important point is if you can get away with charging $4 for toast why the gently caress wouldn't you Oh no definitely, I was just  at the post saying he's probably not making that much profit.
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Sep 18, 2016 21:35
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4 dollar toast is a rip off gently caress u ppl
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Sep 18, 2016 21:36
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nobody speak posted:4 dollar toast is a rip off gently caress u ppl the toast looked mad thick and had some kind of cream cheese on it, basically the same as ordering a bagle and cream cheese from panera except higher quality. whats the problem?
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Sep 18, 2016 22:17
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jigglemaster7 posted:the toast looked mad thick and had some kind of cream cheese on it, basically the same as ordering a bagle and cream cheese from panera except higher quality. whats the problem? when you get a bagel they cut it in half and put cream cheese on both sides
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jigglemaster7 posted:the toast looked mad thick and had some kind of cream cheese on it, basically the same as ordering a bagle and cream cheese from panera except higher quality. whats the problem? Who pays $4 for a bagel with cream cheese?
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Sep 18, 2016 22:34
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satanic splash-back posted:You sound REALLY MAD, but it's not REALLY MAD about $4 Toast. U might think he's mad about toast, but actually he's just.... jelly. 
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Roylicious posted:Who pays $4 for a bagel with cream cheese? Do you live under a rock? Panera bread and Einstein Bros are huge chains and p much every coffee shop sells that kinda poo poo too without even baking it in house. I think threads like these can probably be explained by goons never leaving their houses.
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