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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Abysmally. We've gone from 40-50k in sales daily, to 2500. I'm running 77% labor with a skeleton crew, and layoff talk has begun. I'm apparently not exempt from that, either. I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not in a position to do anything about it, but I hate to see it happen. Be as well as you can.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Abysmally. We've gone from 40-50k in sales daily, to 2500.  Jesus. I don't really have more to say beyond, like, wow that sucks.
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Mar 19, 2020 20:01
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There's a lot of layoffs at the restaurants here in Portland, supposedly to let those affected apply for unemployment. Still sucks though. Good luck, goon.
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Mar 19, 2020 21:02
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Good luck to you.
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Mar 19, 2020 23:13
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Shutting down today. Furloughing our staff with plans to bring everyone back on when the dust settles. All our food inventory is being given to staff and recorded as waste. Wish me luck, and hopefully we see you on the other side.
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Mar 20, 2020 17:20
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Shutting down today. Furloughing our staff with plans to bring everyone back on when the dust settles. All our food inventory is being given to staff and recorded as waste. Wish me luck, and hopefully we see you on the other side. Ugh. Good thoughts headed the way of you and your staff!
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Mar 20, 2020 17:24
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Good luck to you and your coworkers!
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Mar 20, 2020 17:36
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Good luck to you and everyone else impacted.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Shutting down today. Furloughing our staff with plans to bring everyone back on when the dust settles. All our food inventory is being given to staff and recorded as waste. Wish me luck, and hopefully we see you on the other side. If it is a small morsel of comfort: at least you are reducing your chance of getting sick from your unhygienic customers, bringing in germs from across the country.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Shutting down today. Furloughing our staff with plans to bring everyone back on when the dust settles. All our food inventory is being given to staff and recorded as waste. Wish me luck, and hopefully we see you on the other side. You and your staff be well and we’ll see you soon.
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Mar 20, 2020 17:51
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Good luck, restaurant goon. What's the most expensive food item you're giving away? How is the food being split?
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Good luck.
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Mar 20, 2020 17:53
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I'm sorry, man. I really enjoyed this thread and I hope you and your employees are gonna be okay.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:03
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Good luck to you and yours.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:17
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Android Apocalypse posted:Good luck, restaurant goon. What's the most expensive food item you're giving away? How is the food being split? Probably the proteins, brisket and such. It's going to be free for all really. There is a LOT of food. Whatever doesn't get taken I'm going to see if the local food bank will take, but it's all perishable stuff so probably not.
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Well assuming society still exists when the dust settles I'll be headed back to Orlando for school/work so you can count on at least one customer coming through when you reopen.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Probably the proteins, brisket and such. It's going to be free for all really. There is a LOT of food. Whatever doesn't get taken I'm going to see if the local food bank will take, but it's all perishable stuff so probably not. Homeless shelter? They go through perishable foods very quickly.
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Midjack posted:Homeless shelter? They go through perishable foods very quickly. Good idea, I'll look into that.
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Mar 20, 2020 18:55
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drat. I've enjoyed your restaurant every time I've flown Southwest out of MCO. Good luck to you and your family.
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Sorry man =( I hope we survive in a way that lets you reopen with minimum fuss afterward. Good on you for sending the food home with people. I'm sure a bunch of restaurants are not doing that.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Probably the proteins, brisket and such. It's going to be free for all really. There is a LOT of food. Whatever doesn't get taken I'm going to see if the local food bank will take, but it's all perishable stuff so probably not. A friend works at an emergency shelter and they've been overwhelmed with donations from closed restaurants. I've been running a food pantry out of my apartment for friends, family, and out of work service industry friends for the last three days, and will continue to do so until things slow down. I wish you the best, this is going to be a long slow disaster, think about how you handle the next six months, not the next two weeks.
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Mar 20, 2020 23:11
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Cheering for you and your comeback
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Mar 20, 2020 23:45
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Probably the proteins, brisket and such. It's going to be free for all really. There is a LOT of food. Whatever doesn't get taken I'm going to see if the local food bank will take, but it's all perishable stuff so probably not. is there a Food Not Bombs group near you? There's probably some kind of ad-hoc mutual aid group forming in your region.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:is there a Food Not Bombs group near you? There's probably some kind of ad-hoc mutual aid group forming in your region. There is, I used to work with them, great idea.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Shutting down today. Furloughing our staff with plans to bring everyone back on when the dust settles. All our food inventory is being given to staff and recorded as waste. Wish me luck, and hopefully we see you on the other side. drat. As a pilot who, for reasons I can't explain, is still working his full schedule I rely heavily on restaurants like yours. Here's hoping we all get back on our feet quickly.
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KodiakRS posted:drat. As a pilot who, for reasons I can't explain, is still working his full schedule I rely heavily on restaurants like yours. Here's hoping we all get back on our feet quickly. Are you a commercial pilot? I read somewhere that airlines are maintaining flight schedules to retain their flight time... window thingy (the hours in the day when flights go from A to B).
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Yeah airlines get allotted flight slots at certain times and if they don't fly something then they get it taken away, so you've got planes with like four filled seats flying anyways just to keep the slot.
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Well poo poo, that's nuts. I hope they use the smallest plane that can do that flight.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Well poo poo, that's nuts. Airlines are obsessive about cost minimization, so I'd guess it's the plane that has the lowest per-flight-mile cost. So either the most fuel efficient, or nearly so but cheaper to maintain.
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Fuel's cheap again, fire up the 727s!
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:There is, I used to work with them, great idea. one of my other food service friends has been selling people bulk premade meals. if you or they have a lead on an open commercial kitchen, that might help keep you afloat for a while :-/ this really blows dogg. do you at least get to keep access to your restaurant supply depot card?
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peanut posted:Cheering for you and your comeback
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Best of luck, Mr Anarchist - I was a chef for ten years, and most of my friends still are (I managed to get out and have never been more grateful as right now). We all live in a county in England that is basically just tourism-focused. They are all hosed. No hours, no tips, no customers. Restaurants won’t pay them anything to keep them on because there probably aren’t going to be any restaurants after this summer because no one is going to have enough money to come here on holiday. Stay safe, goons.
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Crazycryodude posted:Yeah airlines get allotted flight slots at certain times and if they don't fly something then they get it taken away, so you've got planes with like four filled seats flying anyways just to keep the slot. The FAA suspended that rule a week ago. Also the scheduling regulators at the airports that manage gates by schedule have been told to ignore this period. So you might see positioning flights where one leg is empty but you shouldn't be seeing ghost flights.
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Sorry to hear it, Sandwich. My place tried to do take out last week, and it just wasn't worth it. I haven't been called in since last Sunday. Kudos for donating your food, that's really cool of y'all. Is this Chili's in your port, or the other one? This story absolutely disgusted me. https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2020/03/20/orlando-airport-chilis-asks-servers-to-come-in-and-clean-then-fires-them
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Sorry to hear it, Sandwich. My place tried to do take out last week, and it just wasn't worth it. I haven't been called in since last Sunday. Kudos for donating your food, that's really cool of y'all. Yeah that's in our airport. HMS Host is a horrible company.
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stay safe airport restauranteur ghost
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Straight White Shark posted:stay safe airport restauranteur ghost ...ghost? 
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I think they meant to say host, but then had a sudden mysterious dry cough.
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Crosspost from restaurant industry threadSandwich Anarchist posted:Had a repair guy come in today to fix one of the walk ins that was leaking. He told the people that I still had there for finishing the break down that he had the virus and wasn't telling his boss, that he went on a cruise and caught it, described symptoms, was taking medication etc. Was very serious and had a whole elaborate story. Touched all of our food, all kinds of equipment, had interacted with my entire staff.
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