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We may finally be adjusting to the fact that it isn't reasonable for the average household to be paying someone else to make their food most days.
by lamontcg 5y ago
We may finally be adjusting to the fact that it isn't reasonable for the average household to be paying someone else to make their food most days.
- jshen 5y agoI don’t think this is the case at all. Specialization provides tremendous value, and making things in bulk is far more environmentally friendly than everyone making things individually.
- chillacy 5y agoEating out is strangely expensive in most places in the US, compared to many parts of Asia at least. I'm not sure why. I considered density as a factor but if anything cities cost more in the US.
- ramesh31 5y ago>Eating out is strangely expensive in most places in the US, compared to many parts of Asia at least. I'm not sure why. I considered density as a factor but if anything cities cost more in the US. The same reason everything is more expensive in the US; overhead and wages. The economics of running a family restaurant in a building you've owned for generations is completely different than that of a corporate fast casual place that pays wages and rent.
- hoseja 5y agoA "community kitchen" model should be vastly more efficient.
- lamontcg 5y agoThere's a vast gulf between a soup kitchen somewhere cheap and a sit-down restaurant in the middle of the city with high quality but high rents and high wages. McDonalds is still going to exist and be cheap enough to eat at a lot. Hole in the walls, with relatively cheap rents and family owned with takeout and streamlined overhead will also still exist.