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The Odd Hybrid Businesses That Defined the Early American Service Sector

• dnautics 10y ago
  in Singapore, the public transportation is run by competing private transportation service providers that bid for contracts; the subway itself loses some money (but not much) but the service providers make back the money by charging rent on establishments that operate within the stations and usually a small footprint of services around the station. In this way, commuters have easy access to a variety of services on their commute home (groceries, drugstores, bakeries, hawker stands, etc.) and the incentives are aligned for the transport contractor to maintain passenger throughput with few disruptions to service, lest the commuter opt for a different mode of transit to get home (e.g. taxis)
• gumby 10y ago
  The tavern arrangement described has a vestigial remnant in Australia where pubs are called "hotels" (not that they aren't also called pubs). Drinking establishments were required to provide food and a place to stay. My dad described motorbike trips he and his brother took in the 50s when they would pull up at a pub and ask for something to eat and a place to stay -- on more than a few occasions he'd be offered basically to share the publican's dinner and then told they could sleep in their swag in the yard. So technically meeting the requirements. Since I've been old enough to drink I've been in plenty of pubs that couldn't supply a meal much less a place to stay. I assume those laws are off the books by now.
  • thaumasiotes 10y ago
    > The tavern arrangement described has a vestigial remnant in Australia where pubs are called "hotels" (not that they aren't also called pubs). Chinese does the same in reverse; hotels are called (among other things） 酒店, literally something like "alcohol store/establishment".