ASK me about being a cheesemonger that used to run a good airport restaurant

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Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:

loving tell me about it. It's a corporate thing, but we don't give a poo poo. We straight up tell people during interviews that we don't care if they smoke or whatever, and will give them however long they need to clean up before we test. We don't do random testing or anything.

yeah sadly this is pretty standard corporate insurance policies. corporations take out insurance liability with like CNA/AIG/Berkshire and poo poo like that and often they come with these strings that employees have to be drug-free and poo poo like that, which gets passed down through corporate; in truth the actual corporation may or may not give a poo poo but they "have to". In practice, most businesses may do a thing at hire but basically look the other way understanding that most people smoke weed or what not; unless you hurt yourself like cutting off your fingers or getting into a car accident while on company business and then they'll just deny your claim and reprimand you. It's sort "do it at your own risk otherwise we don't care" sort of deal. even small restaurants are usually in the same boat despite the chefs and line-cooks et al being coked up or on drugs most of the time, but usually more directly communicated 'we don't care, just don't get hurt and ask for a claim'

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Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
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Mr Enderby posted:

Is there any specific reason why airport food in the US so bad and expensive compared to other countries? I fly a lot, and there are other countries with bad food at airports, but the gap in cost and quality between the airport and the city it serves is hugely wider in the US than in any other place I have visited.

it's this

Midjack posted:

but it's also the reason that going to europe or most places, you'll just find an absolute overwhelming wealth of small cafes, restaurants, shops, etc that are small-time mom&pop operations whereas you come back to the states and outside of a few dense urban parts, it's just a wasteland of chains interested in maximum shareholder profits and such. And even in the dense urban parts, it's still not 1/2 the amount you find elsewhere. I was in UK a few weeks ago and it was startling that even in small little villages and stuff you'd find like 5 independent bakeries and cafes on a single block, and even in San Francisco here you don't see anything nearly close to that. Our entire tax, insurance, overwhelmingly expensive rents with no protections set up structure that makes it so it's hard to compete at smaller scale.

There's also US airport security is probably a lot more restrictive and makes it a lot harder to run one if you aren't a large corner-cutting exploitative chain interested in huge markups on garbage microwaved food.

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