marak830

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by marak830 8y ago
The statistics thrown around are 75-80% of new restaurants won't last the first two years.[1] That day want terribly surprise me, as I spent a sizeable portion of my career travelling around fixing restaurants. Biggest issue I've
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by marak830 8y ago
Same request, I have enough emails every day already.
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by marak830 9y ago
The fact that they are using your site means you are doing business with them.
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by marak830 9y ago
Interesting. Howany hours are you working per day? I'm doing 12+ so that's probably adding to the exhaustion factor a lot. Might be interesting to try this without working insane hours haha.
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by marak830 9y ago
As someone who is getting 5 hours of sleep and travelling to work/working/travelling home every day at the moment (short staffed and busy period), I can guarantee that it is not qualify time. Even if I had a day off, doing anythin
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by marak830 9y ago
> Those 5 weeks of paid vacation feel more like an insult than a benefit. Now imagine not having them. I moved from Australia where (due to my contract) I had 6 weeks per year, now in Japan I have two. Feels a lot worse than having them.
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by marak830 9y ago
That's an interesting point of view from my perspective. Most people I know are trying to pay bills and save for a house deposit. The one's purchasing for social status are regarded as wasting their time generally (and speaking f
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by marak830 9y ago
As much as I agree (and I upvoted you), I do think that ship has sailed. Same as hacker has different meanings when used here on HN and on most news articles.
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by marak830 9y ago
"The more experienced workers, she said, are attracted to the increasing number of Washington restaurants with high-profile chefs, leaving midlevel establishments like hers struggling with inexperienced and often fickle help." Tha
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by marak830 9y ago
I am the same as you, alas I cannot afford not to work the hours I do (for which I have copped quite a bit of flack on HN about). I do wonder why people who can afford to spend time with their family and not work 60-70 hours per week, actua
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by marak830 9y ago
Well we are full every night (I can't remember a night in the last 3 weeks we haven't been at least 75% full at one stage). So at least enough are voting for quality here.
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by marak830 9y ago
I doubt anyone on HN is close enough, it's in Ibiraki Japan - a little far for most of the people on here. (Note most of my experience is in Australia btw)
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by marak830 9y ago
I agree it is semantics, but it shouldn't be in my opinion. While it will never happen, I would prefer to call yourself a restaurant you would need to prove that you had hired qualified chefs and that you were producing all the for you
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by marak830 9y ago
From my experience, it is pretty much down to how much you're willing to pay. When I was younger and worked in lower quality places, a lot would be purchased through a supplier (although very rare to see premade items purchased), where
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by marak830 9y ago
Oh I'm going to try that rabbit dish. These sound quite interesting (and fairly straight forward compared to other 'traditional/regional' dishes that I have been trying lately).
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by marak830 9y ago
* very well planned * Too late to edit haha.
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by marak830 9y ago
We have machines for that. Btw you don't need to toss the dough, that's just for looks, as for flattening and spreading, it's fairly standard and straight forward if everything is portion controlled correctly. Source: 17 year
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by marak830 9y ago
Correct, I'm hoping to move a little closer to work to cut some of that commute off soon. My day off is all about family, so it's daily planned :-)
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by marak830 9y ago
Damn I'm excited about this (specifically those damn notification popups!). Slightly off topic: has anyone else been getting frequent crashes lately? It's as if it's running out of memory then freezing a moment. I thought it
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by marak830 9y ago
I'm a chef, these are the hours expected of in this industry.
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by marak830 9y ago
Well I have a wide and son, which I quite enjoy spending time with. Not sure how you managed to take from anything I said that I don't. Some of us don't have a choice but to work jobs that require that many hours to pay the bills.
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by marak830 9y ago
I do that, I'm not the owner either. My wife just had a son, so I definitely have a family. Add on top an hour and a half commute each way and it can be a little difficult at times to have family time I'll admit.
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by marak830 9y ago
That would almost make me upgrade my note 3 to another Samsung. If it wasn't for their Geo locking.
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by marak830 9y ago
Conversely I found Line messenger works well. :-)
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by marak830 9y ago
While I don't want to disagree with you about that locale, it's also taught here in Japan, and the English level is abhorebt. (Source: part time English teacher in Japan in my free time, taught every level from kindergarten to sen
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by marak830 9y ago
In my defence when I replied there were 3 throwaway replies and nothing through provoking. I do stand corrected though :-)
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by marak830 9y ago
Wouldn't anyone on this site, if they had the knowledge of that, make a competing product? Or perhaps some of us are? That's a fairly lazy question, and I cannot see how it would really start a good conversation.
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by marak830 9y ago
Oh thank you for that, I have recently been cooking the recipes from an old book I found approx 150 years old(from the English side of the family). It's difficult to say the least(mostly due to weird measurements).
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by marak830 9y ago
I certainly don't make as much doing this as I would coding. The best I've gotten so far was 2k Au a week while running three restaurants as an exec. Hospitality in general isn't the best industry for making money, although I
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by marak830 9y ago
I'd like to add onto this point. Started cheffing at 17, always wanted to code, self taught enough to be qualified as a chef and get a job programming for a fairly large company by 22. It sucked. As you said, waiting for assignments, n

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