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Where do people eat then? Coming from someone completely foreign to such a culture.
by Squeeeez 1y ago
Where do people eat then? Coming from someone completely foreign to such a culture.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoAt home in front of the television while scrolling their phone
- inglor_cz 1y agoThis unfortunately sounds like where the trend has been going at least since Covid. People started treating "meeting other people in person" as a tiresome chore, and the world is adapting to that change.
- Animats 1y agoVery true. Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business.
- nobody9999 1y ago>Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business. Because DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats/etc. charge the restaurants more than their gross margins. In such an anvironment, unless a restaurant raises prices 25-30%, they're eventually going out of business. I'd say that these companies are most certainly not providing 25-30% value add. Rather, it's just leeching off restaurants and their customers. It's disgusting and has killed many, many restaurants where I live (NYC), even though we already had a culture of delivery before these parasites came along. And more's the pity.
- sitkack 1y agoI was amazed at how good and cheap the food was in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. That is a bummer.
- rambambram 1y agoSuper off topic, but I'm going to borrow "kabob"! Sounds even better than 'kebab'.
- Spivak 1y agoYou're implying that food delivery is antithetical to seeing your friends in person. We have people over and then order food all the time.
- inglor_cz 1y agoIt is not completely antithetical, but I would bet on a fairly significant correlation between those two.
- pests 1y ago> “meeting other people in person” as a tiresome chore. Someone linked the short story The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster the other day where this is an element. A character makes a big deal of having to meet her son in person, opposed of through the machine. Written in the 20s, gets a lot of things uncannily correct for a society 100 years later. Video calling, silence/do not disturb mode, notifications, air conditioning, people no longer wanting to look at real things with their eyes, etc.
- bombcar 1y agohttps://youtu.be/dhQW0ufJRBQ https://youtu.be/dhQW0ufJRBQ
- senkora 1y agoThere’s almost always still a parking lot because of zoning laws, so you can eat in your car while parked.
- rilindo 1y agoThis does feel like we are going back to the beginning of how fast-food started (minus the large crew of people)[0] [0] https://youtu.be/YqyCaATQPtk?t=74 https://youtu.be/YqyCaATQPtk?t=74
- xeromal 1y agoI was thinking of this exact clip! I love this movie.
- iamflimflam1 1y agoVideo is unavailable to U.K. viewers.
- rascul 1y agoI have always preferred to sit in my car to eat at a park or some relatively peaceful place in the shade without too much activity. Sitting in a big dirty room with a bunch of people watching me eat has never been comfortable.
- Auracle 1y agoI agree. I can listen to a podcast in my car, there's no chance someone will cough or sneeze near me, etc. My first time being into a McDonalds since I was a kid was earlier this summer when I gave my 3 year old the option of going in or staying in the car. I was pretty shocked at how barebones it was now. There weren't even napkins available and none with our food...which, when you have a kid with, is an issue.
- bombcar 1y agoThis varies widely - my cutoff is whether they still have a soda refill machine on my side of the counter.
- PopAlongKid 1y agoThis reminds me of the Sonic fast food chain. The first (and so far only) time I've visited Sonic was some years ago, I was staying at a motel across the street, walked over there to order, and was surprised there was no place to sit or even a normal counter to order at. The ads they run on TV give no indication that Sonic is strictly a drive-thru operation.