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Not all restaurants have menus that are able to easily translate to takeout, and restaurants don’t currently coordinate with producers on what food is backing u

Not all restaurants have menus that are able to easily translate to takeout, and restaurants don’t currently coordinate with producers on what food is backing up in the supply chain. For example, say that the chicken supply has outgrown its demand. A coordinated food production effort between suppliers and restaurants could ensure that supply of chicken is sent to a restaurant to be processed and sold directly as a raw ingredient, which isn’t something you typically see in a takeout situation. Or the processed chicken could go to a community kitchen or something. Either way, the food is successfully processed and sold/donated instead of being wasted.

irrational 6y ago
What is an example of a restaurant that can't do takeout? Even ice cream places around here are doing takeout, and I would have thought that something like ice cream would be the last thing that I would see available by takeout.
- azinman2 6y ago
  Fine dining doesn’t translate in the same way, yet their fixed costs don’t change. They also likely aren’t selling liquor which often is the big money maker that subsidizes everything else.
- bbarn 6y ago
  Lots of restaurants that are as much "experience" as they are food. Think of things like Korean BBQ, Benihanas and the like, etc. Also ramen's never stellar in take out mode (most of the great ramen places in my city did it even before the pandemic and it was lackluster in comparison to eating there). Many menus at restaurants depend on a serial eating experience.. drinks, appetizer, drinks, entree, desert, coffee. That doesn't translate well to take out either. Yes, you can work parts of it and make do - if survival and getting people fed is the ultimate goal - but remember that this entire eating out experience, with all its layers and ceremonies.. was barely in the black before covid, so shrinking it down to the minimum viable delivery order could still be operating at a loss financially.

irrational 6y ago

What is an example of a restaurant that can't do takeout? Even ice cream places around here are doing takeout, and I would have thought that something like ice cream would be the last thing that I would see available by takeout.

azinman2 6y ago
Fine dining doesn’t translate in the same way, yet their fixed costs don’t change. They also likely aren’t selling liquor which often is the big money maker that subsidizes everything else.
bbarn 6y ago
Lots of restaurants that are as much "experience" as they are food. Think of things like Korean BBQ, Benihanas and the like, etc. Also ramen's never stellar in take out mode (most of the great ramen places in my city did it even before the pandemic and it was lackluster in comparison to eating there). Many menus at restaurants depend on a serial eating experience.. drinks, appetizer, drinks, entree, desert, coffee. That doesn't translate well to take out either. Yes, you can work parts of it and make do - if survival and getting people fed is the ultimate goal - but remember that this entire eating out experience, with all its layers and ceremonies.. was barely in the black before covid, so shrinking it down to the minimum viable delivery order could still be operating at a loss financially.