/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'd like to think that soon, very soon, people will stop eating at these kinds of places and make their own food. Maybe, just maybe, people will realize how much cheaper it is.
I hope.

>>17269061
>cheaper
Is it really cheaper when you have to put time and effort into it?
I love cooking and I cook well, but sometimes I just don't fucking feel like doing it after a long ass work day slaving away for Mr. Goldberg

We Europeans actually prefer whole organic fresh homemade foods unlike y'all who prefer chemical-filled processed corporate slop whose purpose is feeding goy cattle.

>>17269067
Depends on your economic status. Poor people have more time than money. The rich have more money than time.
How much is your time worth? Do the math. For most people, making their own food is always going to be cheaper. Same with mowing their own lawn, or eating out their own wife. Outsourcing is often times more expensive and usually involves a lesser end result.

>>17269067
>B-but is it actually cheaper if I have to stay in the kitchen while watching YT instead of fucking off to my room to watch YT and eat Goldberg's overpriced microwavable bullshit?

>>17269081
>poor people have more time
Lmao

>>17269103
Cutting off my sentence doesn't make me wrong. The issue you're attempting to bring up is more about intelligence than anything else. Poor people tend to be less intelligent. So they often work long hours for little pay. That isn't a universal. The reality is most poor people could be doing much better if they weren't so stupid. So when they come home from their 11 hour work day and are too tired to cook and too poor to afford fast food it becomes a rock and hard place situation.

>>17269081
Many poor people are working 2 and 3 jobs at a total of 60 to 90 hours a week just to make ends meet.

Oh no, not my junk food. Some one please think of the fatties

>>17269114
Ask me how I know you're jewish

>>17269120
Maybe if you didnt order food but cook themselves, they wouldnt have to work so much

>>17269050
their wings suck anyway. nothing of value was lost

>>17269102
I thought we were referring to actual cooking where you chop vegetables and stand over a stovetop timing everything so there's no time for watching YT, not standing around in a kitchen microwaving frozen tendies.

>>17269120
I would recommend people in those situations move to a more economically viable area. Though they also tend to be the types with several children and a locked in mortgage so it's a reap what you sow situation as well.
>>17269127
Not Jewish, just rich. Don't think I could mentally handle being a jew. It must be hellish.

do people really order wings from a pizza joint?

>>17269147
... That's where 95% of wings are made

>>17269151
95.45%*
Get your made up statistics right faggot.

>>17269081
>poor people have more time
AHAHAHA OHOOOOOOO

>>17269140
You can watch YT while doing all that, unless of course you're a zoombie who's watching reaction videos. IDK about you but when I put on a history channel and hear
>Yuju Naka was an asshole who said some dumb shit about X
I don't really need to see what's on screen.

>>17269151
Always struck me as more of a bar snack.

>>17269156
Your sexual encounters are 100% homosexual

>>17269157
Yes, more time than money. What is hard to understand about that? They are poor.

>>17269114
Post nose

>>17269165
Look man, I know you’re larping but now might be time to invest in an economics textbook

>>17269050
They were so shitty already, no one should have been paying for them. May as well have been parakeet wings

who cares about that, here in canada dominos increased their $8 mediums to $9

>>17269165
You are assuming poor = jobless.
Most poor people are working two or three jobs to cover their bills. More jobs = less time, not more.

>>17269067
I come home from work and being in the kitchen is such a relief. Its like mild meditation chopping vegetables. I love trying out new things and I cook something new at least twice or thrice a week. One day in month i order something from this Chinese place with my gf just because I like the crispy ducks with rice noodles and the Asian delivery guy always looks at me like he wants to suck on my tiny dick.

>>17269163
Jokes on you, a girl said she liked me once. Get pwned.
>>17269166
I have a 9~ year old android that would force me to email the image to my computer to post. You don't have to believe i'm not jewish but genuinely, my name is not sheckelheimgoldenblatz. I was just born wealthy.
>>17269169
>>17269178
It was clear I was comparing poor and rich people right? And that my statement wasn't made in a vacuum? Do I need to reestablish context or can you two just re-read my post? It was the one with Courage as the image. Cute little guy.

>>17269184
>born wealthy
That explains everything. You’re either baiting or think this is actually how the world works and I don’t know which is more sad.

>>17269184
>It was clear I was comparing poor and rich people right?
Yes. What's not clear is where you got the idea that the working poor have time on their hands.

>can only order wings online, and not over the phone
...why? Data harvesting?

>>17269050
Do people still order pizza over the phone? I figured these days you'd just order online to use a deal/coupon that pizzas places have always had running.

>>17269184
>I was just born wealthy.

>>17269081
Rich people have more time, which makes it more valuable to them. They then spend more money for people to do things for them (delivery, repairs, services, etc), so they can have more time so they can make more money. It's a feedback loop. As you make more, you're comfortable spending money on things that save your personal time.

>>17269102
>YouTube
Nice proprietary spyware, nigger.

>>17269184
>I have a 9~ year old android that would force me to email the image to my computer to post.
Bullshit. T-Mobile fucked up hardcore leaving me with Verizon's cheapest phone more than a decade ago and I could post here just fine with it.

>>17269194

Why is there a bucket full of sticks in the living room?

>>17269120
Democrat incel meme

>>17269207
Nice non-starter, Anon.

>>17269194
Not everybody is born knowing how to redeem a coupon, troll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8fr8vZnbU

>>17269209
that is the abode of an artisan wand maker. the wood is hand collected and hand crafted into beautiful wands. get blocked troll

>>17269193
Most likely to exclude technologically inept individuals of lower socioeconomic standing.
Most likely junkies and dindus

>>17269050
I'm way too cheap to buy that crap anyway. If I really craved hotwings I'd just get a big sack of frozen ones from the store and eat those.

>>17269232
The wood is no longer collected and handcrafted.
The new wands are devoid of sovl

>>17269234
>Most likely junkies and dindus
Bullshit, junkies and dindus all have the nicest, latest shit. The only group I can see this excluding is old folks

>>17269218
The fuck is a non-starter

>>17269189
The implication being that spending less money won't mean you have more money?
>>17269191
They certainly have more time than they do money. Again, poors should just move to somewhere they can afford.
>>17269196
Right back at ya friend. Maybe in your next life?
>>17269199
>have more of something makes it more valuable
I'm not following your logic here. They outsource because they have less time than money.
>>17269208
In my defense, I have no idea how to use my phone.

>>17269061
how if you're not going to be allowed to have kitchen gear because it uses too much energy?
you'll order your plant based meals from a multinational corporation that will gladly deliver ti to your hous... i mean room.

>>17269292
Rich people (usually) work a lot. Time is money or leisure. Menial things they will outsource. They do not inherently have more time, but they value it higher and effectively pay to get it back.

>>17269067
>when you have to put time

Hint: unless YOU are creating something you are otherwise doing NOTHING or CONSOOMING. People vastly over-estimate the value of their activities and having more time to melt your brain playing vidya, mindlessly browsing the internet, or binge watching shit on netflix does not make your time precious or valuable. Investing in a skill like cooking is always worth more and carries more mental health benefits too.

>effort

People get better at things they do more often. The best cooks and chefs weren't born the way they were.

People like you simply look for excuses to justify your slovenly and lazy lifestyle and beleive in some unchangeable 'fate'. You spin the 'le time is money' meme but your time is worth shit and you don't even know it. Literal fucking bug people.

>>17269253
its probably because answering phone orders is a massive time waster for that employee who could be busy doing something else.

>>17269178
>Most poor people are working two or three jobs

No they are not. Most poor people are on the dole or some kind of social security. It is actually a minority that works multiple jobs.

>>17269318
I'm not sure how this occurred or at what point this was possible but we have clearly been agreeing from the start.
I'll just blame you because that is easier.
>>17269320
No need to be rude, he's trying to understand at least.

>>17269320
WHAT ANIME

>>17269339
Use WAIT you dumdum. Found sauce in like 5 seconds.

>>17269334
Fair enough, but I still disagree poors have more time than rich people. Especially considering they can't buy it back and are usually going to avoid contracting out work they can learn to do themselves. Not to mention depending how poor we're talking, that's multiple jobs, long commutes, high stress, low disposable income.

>>17269344
OK BUT WHAT IS IT THEN I WANT TO SEE THE CUTE PENGU!!!!

>>17269050
What do they gain from making them online only?

>>17269061
Don't worry, the price of home cooked food is rising to compensate.

>>17269358
I didn't say they have more time. They have more time than money. That second part about their living situation is again, solvable by them moving somewhere more economically viable.
Most poor people just suffer from stupidity. They aren't economically troubled. They could fix their situation. It's a shame that financial managers don't work due to impulse buying.
>>17269369
Just get X already you weirdo.
>>17269373
I'm well aware food is rising in price, it would still be cheaper, is my point.

>>17269380
>moving somewhere more economically viable

uprooting your life and moving costs money unless you intend to simply leave with only the shirt on your back and whatever you can fit into your luggage

not to mention, you have to secure new work and housing where you intend to move to and you need a security buffer of savings to do this, most people do not have savings

>>17269320
based and harsh truth pilled
sometimes I wish I spent less time cooking then I remember that I wouldn't be doing anything productive anyways so really I end up doing something productive and eating good food whenever I cook

>>17269050
>$1 per wing
This would be less offensive if they were even worth the original price

>>17269067
>Is it really cheaper when you have to put time and effort into it?
Yes because it makes you feel good to do something for yourself and others instead of having others do it for you and badly at that.

>>17269395
Move somewhere with work and take out a loan. The alternative is apparently not having an hour in the day to make your own food. Either option seems awful but at least moving has a chance of making things better, no?

>>17269417
what people forget is that when you cook for yourself, it takes the same amount of time to make one portion as it does to make 10 portions.

Cooking more than 2 or 3 times a week is definitely not an effective use of your time.

>>17269050
What exactly is the difference from an online vs phone order?

>>17269429
one gets ignored

>>17269425
What you said has no meaning. Cooking takes almost no time because half that time is oven time and in that time you get a lot done if you're not a lazy bitch.

>>17269429
One can be handled by a machine. The other requires a wagie to answer the phone.
They're phasing out wagies.

>>17269272
On a scale of 1-17, how underage are you?

>>17269327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

>>17269446
>oven time
you waste a minimum of 45 minutes to cook?

>>17269103
It’s an objective fact. The single mom who works 3 jobs to make ends meet is a leftoid myth. Those 3 jobs only offer around 20 hours a week of work total.

>>17269459
I mentioned no set time, did you hit your head?
All I meant is that cooking is not as time consuming as most make it out to be. Fuck you'd waste hours watching whatever crap on youtube, but cooking for an hour or so is too much to ask? lol

>>17269449
Ya, but like whats the difference between a wagie writing down on a ticket a large pizza or an order or wings?

>>17269114
>buy $15 crock pot
>put food in it(beans, pork, corn, potatoes, seasonings etc)
>cooks for however long
>30 servings of sloppa for like $12

>>17269473
The difference is that they can hire less people to do it because labor now costs $15 an hour.

thanks brandon

>>17269380
WHAT IS X

>>17269489
lurk for 10 years before posting

>>17269489

>>17269482
Ok, but what I'm really trying to get at here is why can't I order wings over the phone when its the exact same amount of labor and cost to order a pizza over the phone.

>>17269505
Slightly less calls, I guess. Also promotes their app which is free advertising and metrics.

>>17269505
if fast food companies could effortlessly revamp their businesses without dealing with the pain of the ass of firing everyone, replacing them with robots and kiosks and selling off their dine-in rooms, they absolutely would.
This is the next best thing, more and more things will be moved to the app only to lessen the blow when they finally stop opening restaurant locations and become a ghost kitchen you can order from on uber eats.

>>17269518
Works both ways too. The few places that do keep themselves open will just advertise as "human friendly" and get traffic because of that alone. It's homophobic chicken sandwiches 10x.

>>17269494
>>17269498
I BEEN ON /G/ SINCE 2013 AND I LITERALLY HAVE ONLY EVER WATCHED ATTACK ON TITAN. IM NOT A WEEB. WHAT THE FUCK IS X.
I JUST WANT TO LOOK AT THE LITTLE PENGU

>>17269552

>>17269552
it's mawaru penguin drum, now fuck off

>>17269557
INSTALL OPENBSD, CHUD

>>17269558
HaHA YOU KNEW WHAT AN ANIME WAS WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP. GET A LIFE, NIGGER

>>17269566
anime website

This honestly seems like its hardly legal... Cant order an iteam on the phone? Why the fuck not?

>>17269561
Rule 40 , faggot

>>17269570
ITS ALSO A COOKENG BOARD BUT NO ONE ACTUALLY COOKS HERE, THEY JUST TALK ABOUT WENDY'S AND OTHER SLOPPA
COPE HARDER

>>17269575
lmao you should see what every other fast food shithole has done in the last 5 years, hiding all the dollar menu and value menu items behind phone apps tied to an account.

>>17269576
ZIPPOCAT

>>17269586
And a hockus pockus to you too.

>>17269594
DUMP ALL YOUR MACROS TO MEGA FOR ME PLZ I LOST MY PORN AND REACTIONS WHEN MY HDD DIED IN NOVEMBER.

>>17269552
>asking about x
>on 4chan
Lmao

>>17269611
DO YOU MEAN 4CHAN-X BECAUSE THAT SHIT IS BLOAT AND SO IS VIOLENTMONKEY.

>>17269608
>using a HDD

>>17269636
I JUST INSTALLED AN SSD INTO MY THINKPAD TO REPLACE IT AND THE SSD'S HEALTH IS ALREADY AT 95%. FUCKING SAMSUNG.

>>17269646
You shame your saint.

>>17269660
TERRY ISNT MY SAINT. HE DIDNT EVEN CARE ABOUT FREE SOFTWARE. I FOLLOW SAINT STALLMAN! FOUNDER OF GNU!
MY THINKPAD HAS A FREE BIOS REPLACEMENT AND A FULLY LIBRE DISTRO.

>>17269481
You sound like a working class chump. I bet you thought it would be a great "investment", how you would wake up to a warm, healthy breakfast to start off your long day. Maybe, you even had a couple thoughts about all the other nifty little uses you could find for the thing, how it would help you cook healthier meals in general, shed a couple pounds off the old gut, boost your confidence around work and with the ladies. Yeah, maybe that slow cooker would start your life cooking again, wouldn't it? I can see your strained hands holding the box and reading through it carefully at the store. A little bit pricey, but you're the type of guy who thinks everything is more than you can spend, aren't you. And look what happened to you. Look what the slow cooker did to you. Fucked you over, and made you clean it like a useless bitch. You don't even fucking like oatmeal. Piece of shit, you've been repeating those three words your whole life, haven't you. Yeah, how was work after that piece of shit fucked you over? I bet it was on your mind the whole day, you probably didn't say shit to nobody. Can't be telling people about your mistakes. How your little fix yourself plan, failed you. Don't want people to start thinking you're the failure. You're the piece of shit, all along. You don't want that do you? You don't want to be the piece of shit everybody secretly whispers about, do you? Was your father a piece of shit like you? I bet he never had a slow cooker. He had a woman, a house, a damn good job. I bet it's slow cooking you the fuck alive, isn't it. Comparing yourself to him. How one day when all the steam runs our of your life, you'll discover how you're nothing more than burnt shit to be scrapped off and thrown in the trash.

>>17269698
Spoken like someone who can't make meatballs.
>>17269699
I adore drunkposting.

>>17269719
I MAKE meatballs BETTER THAN YOU, AND THE BEST PART OF MAKING meatballs IS KNOWING THAT NIGGERS (LIKE YOU) DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM
TERRY WAS A NIGGER. HE WAS A FUCKIN NIGGER
STALLMAN FIGHTS FOR OUR FOUR ESSENTIAL SOFTWARE FREEDOMS.

>>17269468
>>17269081
>>17269067
incoming tl;dr
The biggest factor I think is what >>17269114 alludes to: being in a situation where due to a combination of your personal choices based on your current situation, you're going to find wildly different opportunities to find a balance between money and time, and different capabilities to exploit them. I live in a rural town apartment complex that is particularly cheap, and most of my neighbors seem to make around or below the 30k income per capita for the county except for my neighbor who works at the longwall mine, and makes about 10k more at the cost of it being a short-term gig with long, understaffed days in a dusty tunnel under the ground, and a single mom traveling nurse who makes around 20-30k less for miserable hours and commute away from family. Neither are fools, just good neighbors working with what they know and can get at the moment.

Meanwhile my folks both couldn't and wouldn't want to pitch in for even trade school and told me it well off, and Pell and other grants would still be debt I was a adverse to getting before a job to cover it, so from like 15 I pursued projects and certs based on asking anons a few times and reading up on non-uni paths to nailing a starting job remote (pre-2020). Two better jobs later and I work 3 days a week on an average of maybe two to four hour workdays, and the only real consequence is being on the clock for 12 hours. I have been offered promotions to other teams (nearly got forced twice) and more much higher-paying positions before from former coworkers, but I stick with the lesser salary along with low-risk investments because it's a great work-life balance and I can live in my hometown well. But that's the exception, and good fortune at that.

So while I make basically every meal at home, I'm not going to judge the dozens of pizza boxes and fast food bags in the garbage cans much at all unless I'm willing to offer making a meal for them instead.

>>17269067
It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Just buy some kind of roast, season it properly, and throw it in the over for an hour or two while you do other things. You don't have to spend more than half an hour prepping food unless you want to make something more complicated.

Alternatively, you could cook in bulk over the weekend and eat that food for most of the work week.

>>17269081
If you are ultra high net worth then yes. But you still have a kitchen and cookware.

For most successful people entertaining is a common trait.

High net worth people have exceptionally beautiful kitchens, dining, and patio. And fully stocked pantries. They live next to grocery stores that are provisioned with brands most have never heard of. They do not typically hire home staff like a chef.

>>17269698
Stallman did help (or appear to help) a lot 30 years ago, but his Orwellian "Free Software" is a trick; it mostly definitely has a price. To him, technology has only ever been a vehicle for commie posturing.

>>17270077
That's why they buy a wife.

>>17269120
Hate to break it but a large portion of them work less than they could because otherwise they would lose those government benefits. Knew plenty of them when I worked retail who would refuse hours and even pay raises because it would interfere with their food stamps or other gov assistance.

>>17269552
>I BEEN ON /G/ SINCE 2013 AND I LITERALLY HAVE ONLY EVER WATCHED ATTACK ON TITAN. IM NOT A WEEB
"Kek", my dude.

you will first try to make your own food
then you eat the bugs when even that is economically unfeasible

>>17269320
There's absolutely nothing fucking wrong with not constantly "producing," you braindead asshole. Relaxation is just fucking fine. We didn't even have the electric lightbulb until 1878, so most of our history has meant that we practically had to stop what we were doing and rest until first light.

You've spent too much time brainwashed by hustle culture. Faggot.

>>17269419
You can't just "take out a loan." And a loan costs a whole lot more than take-out or delivery food would.

>>17269425
Who wants to cook 10 portions of the same food? A hot meal and maybe one or two meals of leftovers is all that makes sense. And yes, I know all of /ck/ for some reason has reach in freezers that hold food for months and you're fine with eating 6 month old sloppa, but some of us have one fridge to hold our food.

>>17269429
Employees require training and labor costs before they get anywhere close to profitablility. In slow times, the employee stands around and makes the company no money, whereas the online system is always up, and always ready to function immediately. It's also more accurate. Typing in your pizza order to Domino's.com is more likely to get out accurate orders than Baheem on the phone struggling through the language barrier to accidentally put cream cheese on your pizza instead of three cheese, leading to food cost increases, and labor loss when the product needs to be re-made and re-delivered.

>>17269050
Domino's had dry tiny wings anyway

>>17270553
Ok nigga. I fucking get that. The point you keep dancing around is what's the difference between putting in "cook olive pepperoni pizza" and "cook buffalo wings". I get that they want to cut wagies, but why the arbitrary rule of not ordering wings over the phone when its the same amount of work as ordering pizza over the phone?

Who the fuck calls Domnios to order?
I only call if my food isn't delivered.

>>17269050
Who the fuck eats Dominos wings? At least Buffalo Wild Wings has weekly specials. I'm not spending $8 for $8 when I can do a bogo deal at BWW and spend $12 for 20.

>>17269050
Dominos wings are actually the wrost wings i've ver had in my entire life. I accidentally bit straight trhough both bones in one because it was from a fucked up underdeveloped deformed chicken and its bones werent even solid

>>17269050
>dominos
>wings
their pizza is bad enough and now you want to eat their cock? come on, man

>>17269209
How else are you going to stick it to people if you don't have a faggot in the living room?

>>17269140
>>17269158
Personally I put on some good fucking music, get in the zone, and cooking basically becomes like meditative therapy. Balancing and timing dish components, cooking times, keeping everything hot, you find a flow and lock in and it’s no longer labor, purely love.

>>17270553
>You can't just "take out a loan."
Well I certainly can, but then again that's because I have good credit. You should have thought of "what if i need a loan" before having bad credit.

>>17270597
>I get that they want to cut wagies, but why the arbitrary rule of not ordering wings over the phone when its the same amount of work as ordering pizza over the phone?
Oh, gotcha. For a company like Domino's, there's probably a lot of relevant statistical models showing them that by offering wings (likely considered a premium product) only in-app, they're saving a certain margin in labor cost. I don't think Giuseppe's local pizza place is getting much out of it, but a large savings in labor is going to be a win for bigger companies that want to avoid the cost related to hiring and training, much less time wasted scheduling or paying for benefits.

I used to work in corporate for a top Vegas casino company, and the statistical models broke out that if we charged people for parking, we'd make more profit than continuing free parking for locals to come eat, play, and drink. It turned out to be true.

>>17270710
You're talking about poor people here, anon. I have good credit, but many don't have any credit at all, or bad credit. And if you're in your early 20s, taking out a loan and moving to a random place without a job is a quick way to get bad credit.

>>17269320
Your time doesn't magically become more valuable just because you prepared a meal you'll shit out later or becuase you made some stupid table you could've had ordered to you in 5 seconds.

>>17269050
Don't worry anon soon will have the plant material and bugs meat wings :)

>>17270661
gettin real sick of your shit carlos

>>17270711
So you're saying that people are less likely to order wings, which are more labor intensive and cost more to make, if people have to take the extra step to order online than to call in? What happens when the market adapts and the same people who would be calling in are now just ordering onling from their local store. Seems short sighted.

>>17269067
Get a bag of steamed vegetables and a pork loin. Throw pork in oven on foil. No cleanup and hardly any work

>>17269489
It's a browser extension called 4chanX. It adds some new functionality to 4chan such as making your computer part of a botnet and probably mining crypto.
It is being referenced here because of a feature it adds, a button that automatically searches the internet for the source for any image. I'm phone posting from bed or I'd look it up for you, sorry pal

>>17269140
>I thought we were referring to actual cooking where you chop vegetables and stand over a stovetop timing everything
have you never cooked in your life before? Most meals basically cook themselves once you're done chopping vegetables. It's not alchemy.

>>17270661
Funny, I like mexican food.

>>17269699
I make almost $200k/year and I feel personally attacked by half of this post. Grew up poor and was in this situation many times in different ways.

>>17269322
this, it's the same reason for any online-only discount, if they had it their way everyone would just order online for carry-out

>>17269067
Fuck these fags. It’s nice to order Chinese and shitpost

These cocksuckers are 9th highest earning fast food chain at nearly 6 BILLION a year
they should suck it up for a year and earn slightly less to keep their customers happy and returning

>>17269120
Single mothers counting the number of hours their cam is on.
Horseshit.

>>17271498
Aren't you on disability because you're an invalid?

>>17269067
Holy shit nigger. How fat are you to defend your shitty decision to buy fast food?

>>17270081
Orwell was a socialist

>>17270710
You dumb nigger, a personal loan is always going to have high interest no matter what your credit is. It makes moving to a cheaper place pointless because you won’t save money in the end. Besides, a cheaper place to live is going to have correspondingly lower wages and probably less jobs.

>>17269120
silver spoon bastard, you have never been poor or worked with unskilled people. limousine liberals can go to hell

>>17269081
>Same with mowing their own lawn, or eating out their own wife
>>eating out their own wife

>>17270710
>You should have thought of "what if i need a loan" before having bad credit.
Poors eternally and forever BTFO

>>17269050
It's only over because CEOs can't go without buying a new yacht each year, so that means the wagies and the consoomers have to eat shit. God Bless America.

>>17269050
Their wings were nasty as hell anyway

Little Caesars, now this. Since when is fast food price changes considered news? Places have been doing this forever so why is it all the sudden news?

>>17269120
this is unironically not true. I've worked with poor people a lot. they love to blow their money on stupid shit. huge uber eats orders, new rims, new phone, week long florida vacations, no it's not a meme.

for example, many places in the US you can take home 60k a year as a waiter working 4-5 days a week at an upscale place. if you can't save money from that, it's over for you.

Of course I also blew my money on beer and stuff so I can't talk much either but still....

>>17276843
>many places in the US you can take home 60k a year as a waiter working 4-5 days a week at an upscale place.
If you're physically attractive.

>>17269067
Unless you are going to be using that time to do something economically more productive than the cost of buying prepared food, it will always be cheaper to prepare your own food.

Very few people are that insanely busy. You have to be a serious workaholic for it not to be cheaper - I mean a work from you get up to when you go to bed kind of person. They do exist but most normal people like to do things non-income earning activities like spending time with their families (or leisure activities).

If you are wealthy and you make a lot of money and you’re very busy but not always busy, it is not cheaper. But it may be worth it. If you are an attorney at a big law firm making $300k a year but working in the office from 8-6 every day and answering emails at home until midnight and working Saturdays etc., you may decide your non-working hours are too precious to spend saving a little money preparing your own food and cleaning up after yourself.

In that situation it’s not cheaper but it definitely makes sense to eat out a lot.

But for the vast majority of people they have enough free time that it will be much cheaper than paying for someone else to prepare you food and take care of cleanup etc.

>>17269120
This is not true.

>>17270711
>For a company like Domino's, there's probably a lot of relevant statistical models showing them that by offering wings (likely considered a premium product) only in-app, they're saving a certain margin in labor cost.
I really hate this type of thinking and I think it’s worsened a lot of American corporations. Yes there is important stuff to be learned from careful analysis, but at least with restaurants, they really need to put more into thinking about “how do I provide clients a good dining experience they will want to pay for” rather than “how do I squeeze as much money out of this business.” A business that focuses on the former is going to produce lots of orofit if it does the job well - Chick-Fil-A, In-N-Out, Nusr Et come to mind.

Domino’s fell victim to the greedy thinking and their sauce, toppings, and crust departments all made minor cost saving changes that resulted in their pizza quality crashing hard. But they have had a comeback story where they focused on improving the quality of their food and the dining experience and they’ve had a real resurgence.

It’s a bit of a long-term versus short-term thinking. If your goal is just to maximize next quarter profits rather than build and maintain a high-quality brand that will bring in continuous profits your decisions will be different. And I really hate how so many corporations fall prey to the trap.