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> But anything that has turned into a franchize is no longer about selling a product Yeah. Sadly the infinite growth mentality has destroyed many a franchise.
by cogman10 3y ago
> But anything that has turned into a franchize is no longer about selling a product
Yeah. Sadly the infinite growth mentality has destroyed many a franchise. Most of the franchises are simply rebranded sysco foods reheated in the microwave.
I pretty much just don't eat at old franchise locations anymore as a result. Why get fettuccine from olive garden when it's basically exactly the same as a frozen stouffers meal at triple the price. So a "chef" can heat it in the microwave for me? No thanks.
- asdff 3y agoIf you aren't getting your money back in endless salad and breadsticks while engorging on that fettucine, you are doing olive garden wrong. It is a restaurant best eaten by the heavy set and the stoned.
- cogman10 3y agoYou aren't getting your money back on endless salad and breadsticks. That salad bowl cost them 2, maybe 3 dollars of ingredients and those breadsticks are even cheaper. Unless you are eating 10 bowls of salad or 10 pounds of breadsticks, olive garden is winning here. Companies don't offer "unlimited" stuff if they don't know how to extract more money from you than you can consume.
- asdff 3y ago> Unless you are eating 10 bowls of salad or 10 pounds of breadsticks This is exactly how the power users do it at olive garden. People even smuggle in tupperware. You only need to beat the average to be in the money, which isn't hard to do if you go hog wild.