|
quote:Teriyaki Hairpiece I will say this for them, they're one of the only stores to carry Big and Tall clothes at good prices and selections. Of course, I don't think this is their death, just a re-organization (and shrinkage.)
|
#
?
May 15, 2020 20:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 22:58 |
|
|
Bamabalacha posted:My little brother requested the Mandarin every year for his birthday dinner for like a decade. That place loving sucks, even more so because there are so many legit amazing Asian restaurants in Toronto. Are those other places going to give you a free meal for your birthday? I don't think so. 
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2020 21:13
|
|
|
Sekhmnet posted:Ponderosa didn't have the crazy 'salad bar'(that was basically a buffet of everything) like sizzler but they had a shelf of cafeteria stuff where you ordered. Like you order your main meal, a steak or whatever and then move down the shelf putting sides and salads and deserts or whatever on your plastic cafeteria tray and then paid. They might have had an all you can eat shrimp or ribs but you'd have to ask the waitress to bring you more instead of just going back to the buffet to load up another plate. At least that was the routine at the ones I went to in Michigan in the 80s/90s. We must have gone to different Ponderosas because the one I used to go to all the time as a kid definitely had a full all-you-can-eat salad bar. It's all I would get. They had other food you could eat too, cafeteria style like you said.
|
|
#
?
May 15, 2020 21:34
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1261422650284314624
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2020 01:21
|
|
|
Bird in a Blender posted:We must have gone to different Ponderosas because the one I used to go to all the time as a kid definitely had a full all-you-can-eat salad bar. It's all I would get. They had other food you could eat too, cafeteria style like you said.
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2020 04:48
|
|
|
Yawgmoth posted:my first true experience with the lows humanity can delve to.  
|
|
#
?
May 16, 2020 06:47
|
|
|
Oh there's not much that hasn't been posted already; Ponderosa is/was just Golden Corral without a chocolate fountain. 600lbs people bringing their 300lbs and climbing kids in to stuff their faces, parents letting their kids run around screaming, hopped up on plates of ice cream and sprinkles that no doubt had already had 20+ other gross kids jamming their hands into the bucket, people making garbage lasagna every loving time so I would have to deconstruct their towers of plate/mac n' cheese/napkin/plate/napkin/mashed potatoes/plate/ice cream/etc., and my boss who gave negative fucks about anything & eventually quit to sell phone apps full time (he claimed to be getting paid $20 for each person he sold some game app to; this was 2003). The worst people were the weird old people who had deluded themselves into thinking Ponderosa was a "fancy" restaurant because they called themselves a steakhouse. We were staffed like a CVS because sales of non-buffet items were practically a rounding error, thus there was hardly a need for actual waitstaff. But we had two couples who would come in and think they deserved to be treated like loving royalty because they were ordering steaks and only rich and classy types ate steaks so we should have an entire shift's worth of
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 00:42
|
|
|
FlamingLiberal posted:Retail sales dropped by almost 17% across the board last month How is it only seventeen percent?
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 01:20
|
|
|
Platystemon posted:How is it only seventeen percent? This was also my question.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 01:28
|
|
|
It was 17% on top of the losses from March
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 01:53
|
|
|
FlamingLiberal posted:It was 17% on top of the losses from March Oh, poo poo.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 02:02
|
|
|
FlamingLiberal posted:It was 17% on top of the losses from March It still doesn't make sense though: quote:Here's how spending drops affected different parts of retail in April, compared to a month earlier: I guess we don't know the volume of the different sectors (retail sales includes spending on gasoline, cars, food and drink, according to the article), but visually these numbers don't average out anywhere near -17%. Maybe there's some other giant sector that's up 40% somewhere?
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 12:51
|
|
|
Groceries appear to be about 1/6 of all retail sales. Bunch of numbers in table 1 here: https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 13:07
|
|
|
People might still be ordering some clothing stuff ? Like, I’m about to order some gym shorts because I’m suddenly wearing gym shorts almost every day (not saying that’s a good idea). I would bet pajama sales went up.
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 14:47
|
|
|
Toilet paper, flour and milk propping up the ecnomy
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 15:23
|
|
|
Juices, muffins Pasta and cheese Milk and biscuits And cocktail sauce I am a grocery bag
|
|
#
?
May 17, 2020 15:26
|
|
|
Yeah, it’s difficult to gauge without knowing March’s numbers. But March probably wasn’t as bad as April since everything was still open for those first 2 weeks. How did restaurants and bars only drop 30%?
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 01:18
|
|
|
At least around here people are actively ordering takeout more in an effort to prop up local restaurants. That combined with giant drive-thru lines, take-out booze in a lot of cities might have helped offset the losses somewhat. My girlfriend has been bringing my roomates and I like a gallon of cider every weekend in an effort to support our local cidery's taproom in a one-woman effort to keep them afloat, since it's her favorite place to go out and have a couple drinks at.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 02:08
|
|
|
Go to the Winchester, grab eight warm pints, and wait for all of this to blow over.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 07:37
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwxxsPaogY
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 09:10
|
|
|
Platystemon posted:Go to the Winchester, grab eight warm pints, and wait for all of this to blow over. this was the kind of societal collapse I was banking on, something where you can still band together with your fellow man and get eaten by the living dead as a team not this social distancing the-world-economy-is-bleeding-to-death bullshit, I want panic attacks because lavos erupted from deep beneath utah not panic attacks because my neighbors have been having a giant country-music party for the past 3 days
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 12:13
|
|
|
Had they just stayed at Liz's apartment everything would have been over by the next day.
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 13:00
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1262407584918786053 They're now worth only about twice the cost of the founder's golden parachute. 
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 16:58
|
|
|
Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1262407584918786053
|
|
#
?
May 18, 2020 17:14
|
|
|
Anyone else been getting ads for these ‘smart’ toaster ovens? They usually include some kind of subscription service for the food as well, but some work by scanning the barcode on existing food packaging. Here’s one of a few I’ve seen recently:  I have to wonder how long these companies will stick around and how useful these loving things will be if they fold. I can’t imagine how much this thing actually is if there’s a $500 off sale.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 03:16
|
|
|
Spring Heeled Jack posted:
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Also it’s ridiculous looking.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 03:25
|
|
|
List price is $1200. It’s the natural conclusion of the “set it and forget it” dream, where you portion your ingredients and it both refrigerates them until cook time and also automatically cooks them for you to be ready when you want. However this is all happening within the same chamber so if you just want to dry roast your veggies they’re going to get steamed anyway because the pasta/rice is also boiling and throwing a bunch of steam into the chamber. Also it looks like it’s really only capable of making a basic “pasta/rice and meat and veggies” meal, which is good but also so easy to make that I can’t imagine anyone spending $1200 on a device that only does that thing. Anyone whos time is so valuable that this looks like a good proposition is just gonna get take-out anyway.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 03:38
|
|
|
Spring Heeled Jack posted:Anyone else been getting ads for these ‘smart’ toaster ovens? They usually include some kind of subscription service for the food as well, but some work by scanning the barcode on existing food packaging. The only possible advantage is the subscription meals which I assume are intended to be healthier than typical toaster oven  meals, but from what Pawn says it's already just replicating the lowest effort meals you can make other than soup.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 04:05
|
|
|
Some motherfucker is always trying to reinvent the wheel. Just on the face of it it doesn’t look like you are really even saving that much time 
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 04:24
|
|
|
Promoted Pawn posted:List price is $1200. It’s the natural conclusion of the “set it and forget it” dream, where you portion your ingredients and it both refrigerates them until cook time and also automatically cooks them for you to be ready when you want. However this is all happening within the same chamber so if you just want to dry roast your veggies they’re going to get steamed anyway because the pasta/rice is also boiling and throwing a bunch of steam into the chamber.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 05:05
|
|
|
FlamingLiberal posted:You can make that same kind of meal with a $120 InstaPot You can buy a stove, an instapot, and at least a weeks worth of groceries for $1200.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 05:54
|
|
|
(scoffs at these bougie fucks while cooking a starfish on an upturned Chock Full O' Nuts coffee tin)
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 06:03
|
|
|
I dream of someday owning a Tob-260N which will do everything short of sucking your dad's dick and even that only costs $250
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 06:19
|
|
|
^ That's a hell of a sentence.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 06:41
|
|
|
Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I dream of someday owning a Tob-260N which will do everything short of sucking your dad's dick and even that only costs $250 Well Father's Day is coming up... how much for the Premium version?
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 09:31
|
|
|
So, and apparently this is not a joke, Chuck E Cheese created a separate brand name for them to sell pizza and wings via food delivery apps since in most places they can’t open normally https://twitter.com/usatoday/status/1262714116810162176?s=21
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 13:56
|
|
|
That's probably smart. No one's going to pick Chuck E Cheese when they want pizza without the accompaniment of a raucus arcade and playground overseen by a robot rat.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 14:02
|
|
|
Spring Heeled Jack posted:Anyone else been getting ads for these ‘smart’ toaster ovens? They usually include some kind of subscription service for the food as well, but some work by scanning the barcode on existing food packaging. Suvie huh? So is this company's entire business plan selling to people who think this is what that sous vide they've been hearing about is?
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 14:08
|
|
|
FlamingLiberal posted:So, and apparently this is not a joke, Chuck E Cheese created a separate brand name for them to sell pizza and wings via food delivery apps since in most places they can’t open normally This is Pasqually, by the way:  I actually have a great fondness for those weird old Chuck E. Cheese animatronic characters, so when this news broke yesterday I was like you know what, good for you. You may argue about the quality of CEC pizza, but it's where I learned, as a kid, that I love black olives, so it can never go below 2/5 for me. 
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 15:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 19, 2024 22:58 |
|
|
Charles "Chuck" Entertainment Cheese.
|
|
#
?
May 19, 2020 15:21
|
|
