oh that is an egg!!!!!! where do i sign
― j., Thursday, 17 August 2017 04:14 (six years ago) link
shit, I didn't realize that
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 17 August 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.eater.com/2017/8/23/16192508/kfc-virtual-reality-training-oculus-rift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PJQ_E7Se0
― 龜, Thursday, 24 August 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/08/meat-industry-meatingplace/538077/
A lot of people in the ag industries in general, but specifically talking about meat, would have benefited tremendously from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. There's a real crazy quilt of tariffs and fees and things, and this would have simplified a lot of that for the Asian markets, which are huge markets for U.S. meat these days. And there's a lot of concern for the future of NAFTA. The official line is, “We're not looking to walk away from NAFTA—we're just trying to renegotiate it.” There's a lot of concern that in order to get, for example, more automobile manufacturing back on this side of the border from Mexico, they might be using ag products, specifically meat, as sort of a lever for that.I think what they're really excited about is new avenues—you have this Millennial generation that's really much more open to different kinds of tastes and cuts, and the industry is kind of giddy about what they can do, and flavors that they can play with, and different presentations that are being sought out by audiences that have not been sought out previously.
I think what they're really excited about is new avenues—you have this Millennial generation that's really much more open to different kinds of tastes and cuts, and the industry is kind of giddy about what they can do, and flavors that they can play with, and different presentations that are being sought out by audiences that have not been sought out previously.
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 September 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
there's something so ominously chilling about that whole quote
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 September 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
“Corndogs don’t grow on trees … they’re produced on the PTL-2600”
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 8 September 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o55ZCV6QEgk/Weytu8UIQMI/AAAAAAAA5_c/FKlg4vvN8i0dY2-chqAES_5wPN45NX85ACLcBGAs/s640/arbys-venison-sandwich-01.jpg
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
What the hell is that?
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 November 2017 03:05 (six years ago) link
image link says argh’s vension burger
gonna see if it’s anywhere local, although it looks like a turd
― mh, Thursday, 2 November 2017 03:07 (six years ago) link
argh’s -> arby’s
it only existed for one (1) day
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 November 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
(xpost) I think you were right the first time...
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Thursday, 2 November 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
it only existed for one (1) daythousands of years agothey say when the mist sweeps ina wolf howlsit appearssurrounded by potato pancakes
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 November 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
The Headless Horsey Sauce
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
what the heck
https://table.skift.com/2017/11/08/paneras-parent-company-is-buying-au-bon-pain-bakery-chain/
JAB Holding Co., the investment firm backed by the billionaire Reimann family, is expanding its U.S. food empire.
The firm’s Panera Bread business has agreed to acquire the Au Bon Pain bakery chain, adding about 200 cafes to a sprawling portfolio that includes coffee, doughnuts and bagels. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.
The deal comes a few months after JAB acquired Panera in a $7.2 billion takeover, thrusting it into the fast-casual restaurant market. That acquisition brought more than 2,000 cafes that are popular with the lunch crowd. Au Bon Pain will bring restaurants that also emphasize bread and pastries, with locations in places like hospitals, colleges and train stations.
The takeover extends a frenzied buying spree for JAB. The firm has scooped up Keurig Green Mountain, Krispy Kreme, Caribou Coffee, the Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Peet’s Coffee & Tea and Stumptown Coffee Roasters. Analysts have speculated that JAB could eventually go after Dunkin’ Donuts, giving it a hard-to-match assortment of coffee and breakfast brands.
― maura, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
bringing the pain
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
talk about OWNING BREAKFAST
― maura, Thursday, 9 November 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/subways-closes-stores-spirals-downwards-2017-12?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=auddev-test643
"I can't eat the lettuce, and that's a problem, and I've told them," she said. "They're just not listening."..."Subway needs to get back in touch with their roots - freshly baked bread and fresh ingredients assembled with care," said Travis York, the CEO of the creative agency GYK Antler. "These offerings are not only genuine but also different from the competition."He added: "They can't just toss a bunch of stuff on random bread products and expect it to impress an increasingly discerning public."
...
"Subway needs to get back in touch with their roots - freshly baked bread and fresh ingredients assembled with care," said Travis York, the CEO of the creative agency GYK Antler. "These offerings are not only genuine but also different from the competition."
He added: "They can't just toss a bunch of stuff on random bread products and expect it to impress an increasingly discerning public."
^^^ fightin' words at the food laboratory
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 28 December 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
"The employees even look tired."
now that's just mean
― j., Thursday, 28 December 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
it's true!
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 28 December 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
one franchisee said. "There's not a connection, I feel, with the demographics and the target."
It seems Subway has forgotten about that old truism in business... "the target is always right".
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 28 December 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
knew they were doomed when they dropped the V-cut
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 December 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
I haven’t been to a subway since they dropped that, apparently?
― mh, Thursday, 28 December 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
you probably felt like they had made their point by then.
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 28 December 2017 05:05 (six years ago) link
https://ny.eater.com/2017/12/28/16827086/guys-american-kitchen-bar-closing-nyc
― maura, Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
Fieri still has plenty to keep him busy
― j., Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-dark-side-of-your-5-footlong-business-owners-say-it-could-bankrupt-them/2017/12/28/425b6ae8-e671-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.15741a91c6a8
In addition to Subway’s plans to relaunch the $5 Footlong, McDonald’s will revive a version of its Dollar Menu next month. Taco Bell has promised to expand its selection of discount items, as have Wendy’s and Jack in the Box.
we've been dollar-menu-less all this time??!?
― j., Friday, 29 December 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
Basically, that article doesn't say that Subway franchisees would lose money, only that they'd make less profit and therefore pocket less money for themselves. When the owners start making less than twice what they pay their employees, then I might start sympathizing. A little.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
"The brand is tired," said Joel Libava, a franchise consultant. "The employees even look tired."
Y'know, there's something here. I'm a shit fast food apologist and I've avoided Subway like the plague for as long as I can remember. The 1 to 1.5 times a year I eat Subway (on average) always remind me why I don't eat there.
Primarily, I don't like this narrative of sandwich customization and topping choice that Subway have cornered themselves into. I want a sandwich prepared properly, ideally by someone I can't see, and then I want my transaction processed by another staff member, as a kind of system of checks and balances. Many Subways these days are so broke that there's just one miserable looking teenager left behind, making the sandwiches and doing the cash.
I don't like feeling like I could suddenly have to initiate an argument with these people: "No, not that piece of disgusting tomato, the other one... That's too much mayo... Ok... Where the fuck do you come from where you put that much mayo on something? Have some fucking decency.... Lady, you're not supposed to wear the plastic gloves while you use your mobile phone, which you probably also use while you sit on the toilet. "
At McDonalds the sandwiches are prepared off-screen and delivered to me for payment by someone who does a slightly better job of seeming happy about the whole thing. I have fewer complaints because I don't see the process in action.
If I do have a complaint at McDonalds, the fact that I will have to complain to a politically neutral cashier after the transaction is more appealing than at Subway, where there is the nagging feeling that I should have complained to the artist during the making of the sandwich and that the fact that it's terrible is somehow my fault in the first place. It just makes me not want to go there.
McDonalds will survive because, to some extent a child can still point to a McDonalds burger and identify it as a burger. Subway won't survive, because what they make aren't subs, or sandwiches, or burgers.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 29 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
so your theory is that the cashier needs independence from the sandwich artist because otherwise shame about the lack of artistry will be impossible to suppress?
― j., Friday, 29 December 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
It's the system of parliamentary sandwich democracy my forefathers fought in the sandwich wars to defend.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 29 December 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
I don’t buy into the disconnect because it’s not a tipping situation (controversial)! Like who cares if you hassled someone about the placement or selection of ingredients because you pay a set amount and ringing it up is just ending the transaction, not a judgment on how well they put stock ingredients in there correctly
― mh, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
Nah, I'm with Fields. Shit ain't supposed to be like a hot dog cart.
― pplains, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:21 (six years ago) link
only the worst drunks argue at a hot dog cart
― mh, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
Agree though that a franchise restaurant of a national restaurant chain shouldn't have just one employee handling food/counting money.
http://i.imgur.com/Tvfgnpq.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link
lol pp
― johnny crunch, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
"It's all fresh."
"...is it."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 December 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
Primarily, I don't like this narrative of sandwich customization and topping choice that Subway have cornered themselves into.
I don't like the narrative of customization in general that has sprung up in sandwich places/fast casual chains like chipotle and all the poke bowl places. Like I trust people whose job it is to create tasty flavor combinations and make them into menu items more than I trust myself not to point at every ingredient that i like in a vacuum until it all congeals into an overpowering mess.
― oiocha, Saturday, 30 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Don't make me post the video for "Freedom of Choice" in here
― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 30 December 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
But creating an overpowering mess is the point of subway...
― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 December 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
Not chain restaurant related, but I bought a couple of coffee-wine drinks in cans at the 99 Cent Store (curiosity) a while ago and they were as misguided as that sounds.
http://funwine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/chard_splash.jpg
http://funwine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cabarnet.jpg
Their web site: http://funwine.com/
― nickn, Sunday, 28 January 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
It seems not well thought out that those pics seem to show the cans vomiting their own contents
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 28 January 2018 04:40 (six years ago) link
no one told you this wine went from coffee to chardonnay
*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*
― pplains, Sunday, 28 January 2018 05:03 (six years ago) link
wowww
― maura, Sunday, 28 January 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
there is too much
we just need to do a rethink
― j., Sunday, 28 January 2018 05:32 (six years ago) link
nickn, thank you for venturing outside (into?) the can for evaluation
― mh, Sunday, 28 January 2018 06:28 (six years ago) link
Taco Bell finally gets fries
http://thetakeout.com/with-nacho-fries-taco-bell-enters-and-dominates-the-fr-1822431104
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
Taco John's been had Potato Oles for years and they are better
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
Del Taco has decent fries, too. Haven't tried the TB fries yet.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
Burger King’s chicken fries isn’t even a fry
hueg if true
― j., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:15 (six years ago) link