/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Avocado toast. Millennials are literally buying this instead of houses. Oh well, more houses for me.

>>20379944
The 10 dollar shake.

>>20379955
plus tip. can't forget to tip.

>>20379944
A $9 Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese

>>20379982
In Europe, they call it a 9 Euro Royale with cheese. Crazy huh?

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>>20380059
they want like $20 for a footlong, RIP subway it was fun while it lasted

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>>20379944
Subscriptions to everything

>>20380059
the only good thing other than a cheap meatball. too bad none of it is cheap anymore

>>20380059
>$6 for 6"
Thank you based Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act™ is working great!

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>>20380223
How difficult is it to get into the restaurant business? I'm pretty sure I could make the same thing better and cheaper, even with inflation and taxes.

>>20380448
Restaurants are one of the lowest profit maragin businesses, you have to be good at business not just a good cook,that's why so many retards fail miserably

>>20380448
90% of profit comes from selling drinks. Coke from a soda fountain costs $0.02 to make but they sell it $2+,

>>20379948
But they still won't be able to afford a house if they stopped eating avocado toast and unsubscribed from their favorite subscription(s). So they try to make the best with what they've got and do what they can.

>>20380478
>source: my gaping prolapsed asshole

>>20380497
Let me see that source.

>>20380478
That's why every place offers free refills and lets the machines out front where the public can use them.

>>20380496
>and unsubscribed from their favorite subscription(s).
You underestimate how many subscriptions some people have. Spending $50 on several streaming services and Spotify is one thing but there are people who spend over $500/month on various services. That on its own isn't enough to buy a house most places, but it can be enough to put someone over the top to where they need to be, especially if they're already paying high rent.

>>20379948
It's not avocado toast, it's the private equity scum who should have their stomachs ripped open and their entrails wrapped around one of their overpriced Airbnb houses as they scream in agony.

>>20380594
This nigga wants you see my gaping prolapse asshole what a fag

>>20380656
>$500/month
Who tf is doing that? There's no way anyone has time to watch them all, even if you're a neet.

>>20380666
One doesn't have to watch them all, your guests do while prancing around in bikinis do. Haven't you ever listened to Opie & Anthony? $500/mo is nothing to folk making tens if not hundreds of millions per year, that be like one of us nobody's dropping a penny and not picking it up.

>>20379944
Burgers. There was a time when most burgers costed 5-10 dollars, even the independent burger restaurants and they tasted pretty good. Then the neckbeard hipster burger chains started opening up and everyone started charging double for needless add-ons and fancy types of breads and meats, when simplicity has always been better.

>>20380059
>red onion
>green pepper

why

>>20379948
all those damn sprouted grains and polyunsaturated fats

>>20380732
>why
It's subway shit, why indeed would you even be near that stench hole?

>>20380497
no, no. they're right. drinks can account for insane amounts of profits. the big earner isn't the $60+ tomahawk ribeye. it's the $14 a shot whiskey/$130+ bottle of wine. soda, the bags of the syrup plus CO2 is costly but most places charge $3-5 for soft drinks (depending on taxes and whatnot)

Cum and petunias and too bad about his son. Condolences if he reads this.

>>20380754
i had an $11 beer at the airport and the guy beside me ordered a $16 single shot of jack daniels. craziness.

>>20380764
I feel your pain, for me it was a beer while waiting for a flight and it was like $7 for a half glass. I just wanted to down it then go back to waiting for a flight. + tip, I think I left a dollar.

>>20380666
Subscriptions aren't just streaming services.

>>20380666
Women subscribe to weird shit like makeup subscriptions. Then there are gym memberships, software services, "farm" boxes and stuff like Blue Apron. It all adds up quickly even if you don't use them.

>>20380737
dude them grains be sproutin out yo head
LOL 420 WEED DUDE

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>>20380804
I don't know what's worse that radioactive blue looking drink or those gnarly black nails. They go together, cheers!

>>20380697
I'm talking about people going broke from them. If you're rich then sure, why not.
>>20380784
What else would it be? All the software a normie would ever need has a FOSS alternative. Physical product subscriptions just sell you stuff you could order direct from supplier anyway. Again, if you're already rich it makes sense for convenience, but there's no point otherwise.
>>20380795
Out of those "gym" is the only one a normal young person should have. The others can be purchased in 20 years when your stocks and bonds mature.

>>20379944
$22 AVOCADO TOAST

>>20380754
>the $14 a shot whiskey/$130+ bottle of wine
remember this: alcoholic drinks have great shelf lifes, making inventory management trivial and spoilage low
food is much trickier, even with freezing

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>>20380830
Bands are doing subscription merch, youth stores are doing subscription novelties. Things like that.

>>20380732
red onion fuckin rocks

>>20380658
mmmmm bait

>>20379944
$10 shake if you believe the dept of propoganda's statistics.

>>20380708
If you really think that's why the prices increased then just kill yourself now, your life isn't going to get better. Your intelligence has peaked and you've got nothing to show for it. You're an NPC.

>>20379944
premium shake costs you 20 now in LA

>>20382628
Why do the boomers hate us so?

>>20384084
SEO and clickbait headlines.

>>20379944
OnlyFans feet pics

>>20380653
>That's why every place offers free refills and lets the machines out front where the public can use them.
Yeah, the soda itself is cheap as fuck compared to the cups. The electricity to run the fountain costs more than the soda.

>>20380496
Have they considered knuckling down and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps? The cumulative return on simple effort when you don't waste it on short term expenfiture would surprise you.

>>20379944
I was really tempted to post a picture of my penis because you pissed me off but I didn't and controlled myself because I'm a good guy and that would be wrong. This picture is a picture of me going to bed now that ive let go of my anger

>>20380497
Who are you quoting?

>>20381220
Vintage bourbons, tequilas, and whisk(e)ys are all more prone to spoilage than rums or brandies, which is a contributing factor in their exorbitant price increase compared to rum or even cognac

>>20383701
Nope not at all bait, people who profit off making housing unaffordable for everyone except the ultra rich should have their entrails extracted while they're still alive, screaming, and watching the same happen to their whole families.

>>20380448
Go the food van route. Brand and design it to look deluxe don't make it look like. Shitty taco truck for drunk people. Have medium profit prices on the foos and bulk buy cans of drink. if you make good food you'll be getting lines of people and will be able to expand to a second truck and so forth.

>>20384642
How can I make you angry enough?

>>20380764
>airport
lol

>>20385573
Is it ever worth buying a building, or is it best to just keep getting more trucks?

>>20379944
Yall are missing the point of OP's question. The essence of the Five Dollar Shake is that although it SEEMED ridiculously expensive, after tasting it Vince was forced to admit that it was much better than expected, he was legit impressed, although in hindsight he still wasn't sure if it was really worth the price. It's undeniably expensive, but just delicious enough to suggest that maybe the price is worth it, somehow. With that in mind, imma say:
>pizza from one of our famous regional pizza joints
>almost $40 for a large pie, even without tip/delivery
>but fuck it's tasty
>FUCK
That's a once or twice a year proposition, we hate the bill, but wow that pizza is gone quicker than a Youtube video questioning a certain American ally's genocidal agenda, "poof", it's gone, it never existed, wow.

>>20388268
sort of like treating yourself to an escort but you can only afford it once or twice per year but you need some sort of sexual encounter i mean it shouldn't be illegal if thats the only way you are able to fulfil that basic human need

>>20388295
Fun fact: you can pump your dick in your fist for free.

the $25 shake

>>20379944
As a zoom zoom $5 for a shake didn't seem too bad. How much was it when the film takes place?

>>20379948
Jesus. What TWS are you in that millennials can't afford houses?

>>20388872
5 dollars cunt

>>20385561
Nta but I think probably you, newfriend.

>>20388318
t. Expert

>>20389520
>Millennials are often thought of as a generation of renters, but their home ownership rate is catching up to generation X. In the coming years, they may become the first generation since World War II to reverse the trend in declining home ownership.
Millennials are doing fine but outrage porn is lucrative so there's no shortage of doom posting about them. Almost all of the difference between Millennials and other generations at their age is due to declining black home ownership.

>>20388872
Adjusted for inflation, using US government data, that five dollar shake would now be $10.54, but keep in mind that food, especially at restaurants, has been going up in price faster than general inflation. It would be like someone today ordering a $19.50 shake compared to 2024 McDonald's inflated prices.
More importantly, when the movie came out, gourmet shakes and ice cream wasn't really a thing. Most people only had shakes from places like McDonald's and ice cream from Baskin Robbins. A McDonald's shake around that time was a bit over a dollar.

>>20389583
>*laughs in millennial homeownership*
I am 37

>>20388872
5 dollars, retard
It was touted as good because it was "so expensive"
Like the 6 dollar burger from Carl's Jr back then

a gourmet milkshake consists of what? french ice cream and heavy cream?

>>20389748
Gourmet is likely a matter of what's not in it. Here are the ingredients for McDonald's shake base
>Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate.
and for the vanilla flavoring
>Corn Syrup, Water, Glycerin, Caramel Color, Vanilla Extract, Natural Flavor, Salt, Potassium Sorbate (preservative).

>>20379948
>offer to buy a house
>owners throw me a counter offer
>??? i’m the only one trying to buy what the fuck is wrong with them

or 99% of the scenarios
>offer to buy a house
>private equity offers to buy full cash upfront
>owners sell to them

>>20379944
There’s a place near me called Pete’s drive in. They got these milkshakes that are 7$ after tax they’re really fucking good makes Dairy Queen shakes taste like dogshit by comparison and, they got these crazy flavors like pin-a colada and black liquorice. the best is root beer. That’s today’s equivalent

>>20379944
A small vanilla at McDonald's will run you about that I'd imagine.

>>20380064
Subway has not been the same since Pajeets started buying them up in the 2010s