/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?

>>19964049
You should only really go to only fine restaurants as a treat, and they don't use coupons and other NPC bullshit. If you go to dead lobster or other chains, you will NGMI.

When food delivery services first got big you could sign up a new account using a pre-paid visa card as many times as you wanted. And get the introductory 50% off deal.
I did this at least 50 times.

>>19964049
>endless shrimp
you got like 10 shrimp at a time and you had to wait between orders.

>>19964404
Yeah not only do you have to serve as much shrimp as someone wants you also reduce table turnover rate. Fucking brilliant

I have a really hard time understanding how this could have cost them "millions". Zoomers love the idea that they're only getting their money's worth when they go to an AYCE buffet and strategize eating only all the most expensive proteins, but in reality most people don't do that, and the heavy eaters will often bring in other people who absolutely aren't eating their money's worth. A few people gaming the system is built into the price. I looked up this deal and it actually did seem kind of dumb to offer endless shrimp for only $5 more than 3 portions or whatever the deal was, but they were likely making a similar calculation. Like, "everyone is going to pay an extra $5 for potentially endless shrimp, but most people are maybe going to order one more dish, which makes it more expensive than going from 2 to 3 plates." If anything, this >>19964423
>reduce table turnover
is the bigger reason it cost them money. But then again, the kind of people who actually go to Red Lobster either think of it as their "fancy" night out twice a year and will linger anyways, or got some kind of gift card or are taking advantage of some other promotion. I still don't understand how they could have lost millions - unless that's just based on the projected numbers vs the reality of an already failing chain, kind of like Metallica claiming they lost money because of Napster. In any case, you'd have to be pretty stupid to invest in a franchise literally named after a product that in any reputable establishment will be listed on the menu as "MP".

>>19964049
Yesterday. I bought a McRib, wasn't necessarily on special or anything, but anytime McRib is available it's amazing value

>>19964090
Poorfag larper detected

>>19964423
>Yeah not only do you have to serve as much shrimp as someone wants you also reduce table turnover rate
This happened with Olive Garden too. They made the soup bowls smaller around half a decade ago and now they have a 50 minute wait at 3:30 PM

>>19964404
This only dissuades non black people. They will wave, hoot and holler and cry racism if they aren’t brought shrimp instantly. And guess who primarily takes advantage of these deals?

>>19964090
>you will NGMI.
Poor and ESL

>>19965262
Those shallow ass soup bowls can’t hold more than like 8 oz of soup.

>>19964494
Same. I never eat there. After looking at their menu it made much more sense. I don’t recall seeing a single entree that cost $20. They should have priced the shrimp deal at $40. It would have been less than many of their entrees so their REGULAR customers would have partaken of the deal. A $20 unlimited shrimp deal will pull foot traffic but they’re not going to come back later and drop $60 on a meal with drink and tip. They pulled into their restaurant people of average to low income who were going to eat until they burst to “get the best value.” This means customers tying up tables with cheap orders and for much longer periods of time. They’re eating more food, dirtying up more dishes, drinking more refills, need more service than others, and likely tip poorly. So in addition to the cost of the food there’s a lot more labor involved plus slower table turnover. Speaking as a regular to a local Italian restaurant if I went there and it was crowded, loud, and I had to wait to be seated, all because they were running some kind of crazy $5 unlimited pasta” deal I’d go somewhere else.

>>19964494
>>19965446


when i was a child, red lobster was basically the practice restraunt for the middle class. You took your children there to experience a slightly higher food culture than your typical family restraunt so they could practice ordering, manners, ect. The 'regular' dinners were older people who just want a nice, calm environment.

i imagine its nothing like that now. I would assume the shifting demographic composed of people who want to mimic middle class white behavior but dont have the self control to actually do it is the real reason for their decline. That, and the rising cost of sea food due to our greatest allies selling the technology to the chinese that makes over fishing possible. There was once a time when sea food was dirt cheap, primarily because it was so plentiful and only a handful of countries were actively procuring it. Now, that isnt so. But you cant tell the board that. Thats politically incorrect. Yeah.. it was those damn shrimp deals.

>>19965984
I’m Gen X. I well remember fish being cheap. I ate a lot of that as a kid, being “poor.” I had no idea how rich I really was. Today’s world is very different. A lot of middle class luxuries are either outside of peoples’ budgets or have been forever altered due to our shifting culture we’re not allowed to speak about.

I go through old cookbooks and some recipes make me both want to laugh and cry. Things like caviar pie. Caviar pie used to be one of those kinda’ trashy chic hor d’oeuvres made from inexpensive red and black caviar you could find in supermarkets. My local grocery stores simply stopped carrying it after the little jars hit $10. Or all of those lobster recipes in those books. Remember when supermarkets had live lobster tanks? Yeah, we don’t have those anymore. Mouth-watering recipes like trout almandine- I never see trout anymore and when I do it’s like $20 a pound.

But, back to lobster and those missing lobster tanks in common grocery stores. All I see now are pre-prepared lobster tails sealed in plastic packages. Red Lobster, as you accurately described it, was a kind of budget-friendly “fancy” restaurant during a time when lobster was priced a bit above fish but still very affordable. What made it so special was the effort and skill it took to prepare a meal with it. Today I’m honestly surprised the chain is still alive with how actually expensive lobster is now.

I know these kinds of economic discussions could appear to skate the line of being off topic but food availability is core to cooking. I have so many recipes I want to try, but can’t, because the ingredients are either no longer easily available or priced beyond my reach. Just once I’d like to try my skills at preparing leg of lamb, or roast a goose.

>>19964049
whenever butter goes on sale i take 6 bricks and only pay for 4

>>19964049
Not really exploiting offers, but one app had 100% cash back on these while I got $3 or $4 back from another app.
I also found jars of Heinz turkey gravy for $0.50 while an app had $0.50 back for each jar.

>>19966178
>chicken [flavored] fried rice
>made with “100% real vegetables”
I have so many questions. Chicken FLAVORED? What chemical does this? What are “fake” vegetables?

>>19966151
I can get 2 oz of caviar for $4 and trout for $6/lb at the local big chai. don't be so dramatic, jesus

>>19966192
You sound like a cunt

>>19966196
What is a big chai? Where do I need to move to? I haven’t seen prices like that on trout since the early 2000’s, or $5 caviar jars for that matter.

>>19964290
They used investment money from the bank (your money) to dump a bunch of cash into advertisment and not only did they work for free at a loss but they covered the costs of the discounts in the app
Now traditional delivery doesn't exist, food costs 30% more if ordered from the app and if you go eat there they serve you crap because they don't actually want costumers to eat there
They took your money and gambled with it then used more of your money to make your life worse
I repeat this was your money they never risked their money, the bank never asked you permission to use your money for this and if the bank screws up with your money you could loose everything meanwhile the government will absorve the debt of the bank and pay for it with taxes and inflation you pay for while keeping said bank as a private institution even tho eating that debt should have meant buying the bank
And then the bank goes back to doing the exact same thing, take your money and split it like a pirate splits booty and if you want to start your own delivery service you can't because you won't get a loan and you won't get your app on the store
And if you want to start a bank you also can't because what a bank does is legally considered a scam were you keep getting people to "invest" money but value is never created you just keep getting more and more "investment" money and "loan" money from businesses that constantly go bankrupt and somehow also makes you profit and dirt poor people stuck on a 20 year payment plant, it just works

>>19966196
This is walmart.com. The one in the middle isn’t even caviar; it’s made from seaweed. My local Walmart no longer stocks it.

I got seven boxes of GrainBerry cereal for 50¢ each due to a weird digital coupon from Safeway.
Before that, they gave me a weird digital coupon for 50¢ Newman's Own pizzas so I got seven of those, too.
Before that, I went to go but since cherries and other shit and the system inexplicably doubled all my digital coupons so I would up paying something like 29¢ for three pounds of small red fruit, a litre of seltzer and something Else I didn't recall, but that's not an exploit so much as a glitch that I didn't bother to reproduce.
I thought of another potential exploit about two weeks ago but I can't tell you about it yet because a) it's still interested and b) if it works, I didn't want it getting out before I can do my shit with it.

>ham pizza is $5
>hawaiian pizza is $8
>getting a ham pizza and adding pineapple is $7
I am a financial genius

>>19966151
How Quaker.
t. Quaker
> I'm dreading going to Meeting today because it's raining and I don't like the rain

>>19964049
Discount codes for pizza hut, nowadays they are restricted by area so codes/deals from other areas will not work in my area but it the past that was not the case. Best case I used a bunch of codes and got large pizza meal with extra sides plus delivery for about 40 cents.

>>19966151
Stick to >>>/pol/.

>>19966151
>Remember when supermarkets had live lobster tanks?
I remember. It was like a little aquarium to entertain me every time mom took 40 goddamn minutes to put some bananas and oranges into the cart.

>>19966525
I remember when Stella Artois had a deal for a free custom engraved glass when you bought a case of beer. Some /b/tard discovered you could fake the code for the free glass so long as the first few digits or the last few digits were whatever. Hundreds of /b/tards were just engraving racist and cringe memes on glasses and getting them shipped home for free. I think I got 10 glasses out of that.

>>19966546
Based

>>19966546

I still have mine. I think my parents use it. It has "my Jimmies remain unrustled" on it.

>>19964049
5 years back. abused the domino voucher hack getting multiple free pizza for the price of 1 pizza.

>>19966536
Get fucked, that was a great post

>>19965446
>should have priced the shrimp deal at $40
>It would have been less than many of their entrees
>$40
>less than their entrees
Are you fucking telling me that Red Lobster has entrees that cost more than $40? This is a $25 restaurant MAX. I could only see reaching $40 per person with appetizer, alcohol, and dessert.

>>19966540
>>19966151
>had live lobsters
>had
wut
Mine still so. And I live in a big, scary, coastal elite city. Where tf do you live where they don't?

>>19966841
>40$ entrees
One ponders at the cost of the main course with such entree prices

>>19966215
none of these is real caviar
that shit is 300$/kg BEFORE you export it from russia

>>19964049
>What was the last time you exploited a deal/offer at a restaurant/grocery and got crazy value?
Uhhh yesterday and literally every other day I go to work. The Co-op in the UK gives you small discounts around the shop on certain items if you have a membership card, but those discounts are still applied to reduced items. So staff get all the good shit for almost nothing, then get staff discount, then it applies the membership discount as all staff cards are also membership cards. Combine it with the weekly offers they give you in their app and you can occasionally do silly things. Baguettes baked that morning for 3p, sandwich, fruit, and can of Relentless for 80p. Packs of chicken breasts for 80p. Shit like that. I'm not in work today but I did today's first reduction yesterday and know that there's 3 joints of beef that'll end up pretty cheap on top of a whole other mountain of meat. Might go in later.

>>19964049
>Be me during covid
>Cant buy alcohol after 22.00pm
>Order burger from uber eats
>As a side i ask for beer
>They can't sell me the beer so they send a cola instead
>File complain on app
>Get 50% value back
I did this at least 5 times

>>19966151
>remember when supermarkets had live lobster tanks?
Yeah, it's actually really bizarre to think about. It's like they kind of just stopped being a thing overnight. I do remember one of the grocery stores I was going to in probably 2005 always having no lobsters in the lobster tank, but don't really remember when exactly that happened. It used to be in every grocery store and now it's basically non-existent. At least the Asian grocery stores still have tanks with live seafood. I don't trust it enough to eat it, but the overcrowded tanks do make for good entertainment.

>>19966192
if you really care to find out
https://youtu.be/sR8M4zARBXY

>>19964290
Did similar to this. Before they hiked up prices and charged insane delivery fees. Discount would cover the fee, the tip, and part of the meal.
It was still a terrible use of money because I was constantly "ordering out" but I felt like I was ahead because I was gaming the system. Also half the time my food would arrive cold.

>>19966841
I've only been to Red Lobster once, probably 15 years ago, because we got a gift card from somewhere, and I couldn't believe that most of the entrees were in the $20 range. For the quality it was mind-blowing, and yet the place was packed. We ordered a bottle of wine and I had to show the waitress how to use a corkscrew because apparently people don't order wine at Red Lobster. I wouldn't be surprised at all if prices today are nearing $40. I think it's the same people who shop at Walmart who eat at Red Lobster. They have no frame of reference and somehow think they're getting a good deal.

>>19964290
I only use these when I get free giftcards.. maybe once every 2 months and I always have the 50 percent or 40 on all three of the majors, plus a month free trial of w.e sub plan they have that eats the fees.. I use my regular card and cancel right after my orders. I still get the free trial and thr discounts. Every single month. Isnt thst normal?

>>19966841
Yep. I checked the menu. You can order cheaper sandwiches or pasta dishes but if you’re there for actual lobster or a surf n’ turf it’s over $40. Most of their starters are over $10. Unless you go there on a strict budget and order things you probably don’t really want (don’t most people want lobster when they go there?) it ain’t no longer cheap. I was pretty shocked, too. I think their cheapest lobster dish is their lobster linguini and it’s $33 bucks.

>>19964049
shrimp is trash tier seafood. never got endless shrimp even once.

>>19967268
>those prices
Dios mio. I can buy seafood and make my own dinners for that price. I know seafood is expensive, but Jesus Christ. If you're paying that much anyway you may as well get a couple good seafood dinners out of that.

>>19966967
How do you get a job in co op? Do they let you choose a store or they just send you to a random store within 20 mile radius?
I want a permanent night shift job stacking shelves with as little interaction with people as possible

>>19966508
never seen another quaker on this website

>>19967290
Fucking Quakers are here? You people are allowed to use shit like 4chan?

>>19967020
Stores near me still have them. That shit is a fucking sin and I can't look at it. I feel bad for them.

iam a quaker too

>>19967295
The only quaker I've ever known (or at least known was quaker) was a girl who used to go out topless because she wanted to normalize it and also sold coke. They're a little different than the guy on the oatmeal would make you believe.

>>19967299
Some places still have them, but in the 90's EVERY bumfuck grocery store had a lobster tank. You could go to your nearest grocery store and it was almost guaranteed you'd be able to buy live lobster.

>>19967337
Oh. I thought they were pseudo amish. So it seemed weird they'd hang around here.

>>19967344
farmed sturgeon is actually pretty good.

>>19967344
I've never actually eaten sturgeon, I assume it tastes similar to a large catfish though.

I've caught a few of them, but none of them were within the size range to keep. Most were too young, but one was 16feet and too big to keep. Only one I caught that I could keep I gave to my dad's friend because he didn't catch anything that day and he told his wife he was bringing dinner home.

>>19966192
Here are the ingredients.

>>19967365
>words words words
>CONTAINS A BIOENGINEERED FOOD INGREDIENT.

>>19964049
back in college there was a company that would give you credit to local food spots if you refereed other people with .edu email addresses. i figured out how the referral system worked and exploited it to give myself around $2000 of credit to order calzones and pizzas. the owner of the company personally thanked me for referring so many people. we ate good that semester

>>19967642
>ate pizzas for entire 6 months
>we ate good

>>19964049
I spent some time training and stretching my cheeks out so that when I went to a buffet, I could eat to full and then also store more in my cheeks for later. I was able to store up to 3 pounds, usually of shrimp, chicken, or beef, pay for my meal as normal, and there was nothing legal or polite that they could do about it.
It's been a while since my pouching days though

>>19967822
Should have just asked for a take out box

>>19967290
I post all the time. Never encountered another Friend but I'm sure there are plenty of us.

>>19967295
>>19967347
Plain Friends are more Amish like. The vast majority of Quakers are pretty modern. I live in a city, drive a car, use technology, wear clothes with buttons etc etc etc. Also, there's no real "allowed" or "not allowed." The point of most forms of Quakerism is to develop a personal relationship with the Unknowable. Outside of that, there's no creed, which means no list of rules once must follow to be involved in the RSF. Many of us even avoid using terms like 'God' and quite a few of us wouldn't even identify as Christians. I'm >>19966508 and I'm a nontheist Friend/Quaker Humanist.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if most Friends live according to SPICES, an acronym kids are taught at First Day School or at Quaker schools. It stands for the 'testimonies' of Quakerism IE simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship.

>>19967337
Sounds about right. What is it with Quaker girls being so fucking weird/quirky? It should be no surprise that Zooey Dechanel is Quaker. Also, I think the guy who created Black Mirror is a Quaker. And Helga's mother from Hey Arnold might be, too. She gives Strong Quaker vibes.

>>19967831
Aren't takeout boxes charged by weight?

At Wendy's, a Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe is $3.19 while a regular Jr. Cheeseburger is $1.89. You can add lettuce and tomato to a Jr. Cheeseburger for free and get a Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe for more than a dollar less.

Also at Wendy's, they only let you pick a few sauces when ordering nuggets, but you can order sauces with fries with no limit on variety or quantity.

>>19964049
I just don’t understand how they lost money
I can’t imagine most people being able to fit over a pound of shrimp in their stomach. A pound of shrimp at retail price is ~$7 probably much less for them wholesale
and the endless shrimp promotion costs $25.
Even at retail price people would have to be eating over three pounds of shrimp every time for them to lose. How can people fit that much food in their stomach? And that’s not including the fillers like biscuits and noodles that take up stomach space. How is it even possible? The math don’t add up

>>19968250
the cheap thing at my Wendy's for $2.12 after tax is the "chicken blt" add onion.

>>19968270
Labor + seasoning maybe? Throw a healthy amount of american whales in there too who probably make up the gains from 3-4 regular people.

>>19966536
its afraid

>>19964049
around our last great depression, sonic was selling burgers 5 for $2, i'd eat 1-2 and fridge the rest
i got dashpass with my cc and can get free food every couple months

>>19964049
friend of mine and I used to go to a local pizza place that did $12 all you can eat pizza
we'd usually eat $200-$300 worth of pizza easily
after doing it 5 or 6 times they put a 2 pizza max and 90min time limit on the deal.

>>19966921
Weird things happened in translation assimilation. Entree is the main dish in 'merican restaurants.
Appetizer, Entree, Desert.

>>19969213
how fat are you?

>>19966213
>bank never asked you permission to use your money for this
read the terms of your bank account bud

>>19969585
Wow you sure showed him

Get fucked idiot

>>19969171
>sonic was selling burgers 5 for $2, i'd eat 1-2 and fridge the rest
I got that $5 for 8 pieces of fried chicken from Popeyes deal (the one from the notorious video of the the Black people being upset that it was sold out) every year they offered it and are a piece or two and froze the rest. The last few years they still did it, they put a cap on how many orders, limiting it to two per customer.

>>19966213
do better if you want anyone to take you seriously. I didn't really read your two big run on sentences because they were too poorly written to be believable.

>>19970354
>missed costumers
>missed payment plant
they were the best ones in the entire blog....