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by marak830 9y ago
It depends on how you define loss leader. Free breadsticks?(okay if you produce them in house or have a massive amount of locations), $15 worth of produce sold for $14? Hell no. 25% - that's the sales price you can put towards food cos
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by marak830 9y ago
Novice restauranteur. . .. is just another word for failure. You cannot purchase a restaurant without knowing the industry (eg by working in it), and expect things to just flow. Don't take the leap, actually learn what the hell you&#x2
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by marak830 9y ago
Okay it's time for me to chip in properly, forgive any typos I'm on a phone. Preamble: I'm rated as an executive chef(my last 3 positions before leaving the industry), and I had worked for over 17 years in hospitality (from a
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by marak830 9y ago
As always there is a big differential as to location and rent. That aside though : Yes rent can be a killer, the lease can have a lot of effect on a restaurant, I'd say more so than any other business. As for the biggest cost? Assuming
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by marak830 9y ago
I was in the restaurant business for a long time. You are definitely on the money. So many businesses I went to, were not able to understand the basics. Hospitality, while it can be profitable, is a game of small numbers. The smallest overl
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by marak830 9y ago
So if you share it to a family member, and someone writes a story similar. . . What is the edge case here. You cannot expect only one person to make a deduction from information points. Edit: or are we talking 'specific headlines'
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by marak830 9y ago
So what denotes a reporter? What if you share with a friend who works for a newspaper? Or someone who works with a blogger. It's a stupid rule, and imho only there to make the users feel like they are in a unique clique. There is no re
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by marak830 9y ago
I doubt that, I haven't seen hn avoid topics that the users may be coding before. I think it's more that, at the moment, most people only relate it to low quality sites. Once it begins to catch on, on more mainstream sites, then i
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by marak830 9y ago
I was a massive coffee drinker. I have a Starbucks venti sized mug, I'd go through 6-7 a day, easily. I haven't had more than 2 coffees a week in the last 6 months, and I still have issues sleeping :-p I don't blame the coffe
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by marak830 9y ago
Bloody hell that was a difficult read.
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by marak830 9y ago
Big thank you to Troy Hunt for this service, I just got my email too. I read your comment just after you posted it and thought, "oh I haven't gotten an email yet, I must be safe". . 50 minutes later it came through :-p
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by marak830 9y ago
I understand not wanting to give details nor wishing to rehash painful memories. All I can hope for is the best of luck for you, andy sincerest hope that things change.
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by marak830 9y ago
I do. No that extra $12 won't help you get out, but God's be damned drinking myself stupid certainly didn't.(I tried drinking it, that certainly didn't help). What I did see, and realised more and more as I struggled, wa
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by marak830 9y ago
I wouldn't recommend Japan for this btw(I live here currently), it's fairly difficult and cutthroat at the moment. I do have a friend in Taiwan that is trying to convince me to go over though fyi :-)
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by marak830 9y ago
I don't know about anyone else here, but I'd like to hear your story. I cant help you in any way, much to my own discredit, but if you want someone to speak to, or if you ever feel like sharing publicly, I'd be interested. Si
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by marak830 9y ago
I have been there. I grew up in that situation and crawled out of it. I struggled for everything I have, and I saw many people who said it was too hard. For those, I have zero sympathy. There is no reason to buy beer or cigarettes. They are
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by marak830 9y ago
Yet, from the articles writing, that isn't what they were aquiring, Bor was there a mention of that. I argue that the author of the piece is either being dishonest(if they were regularly digging up ginseng or similar), not performing e
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by marak830 9y ago
So to the downvoters, do you actually have a logical response, or just a knee jerk reaction? I have been there, I grew up not knowing where each meal was coming from. I have lived next to and interacted with people who can't make logic
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by marak830 9y ago
I agree re: the patent pending and their trying to drum up some sort of support. My opinion, what a monumental waste of time. I'm damn happy that I read tbgvi's comment before looking at the article, as the few minutes I spent bro
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by marak830 9y ago
(edit: I finished it,as I should have the first time. Not that i change my point of view though) <s>I couldn't finish the article, not because it was too heartbreaking, but because of the stupidity of the author.</s> .
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by marak830 9y ago
Ahh, such a shame. I certainly understand why, but it does bring back fond memories. (Christ if I go any further I'll start waving a zimmer-frame around and begin talking about my lawn).
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by marak830 9y ago
I wish the author had held off his piece to get into another convention and to a more interesting table. I don't know why, I just seem to have a facination to trying to figure out how these people think. I certainly don't understa
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by marak830 9y ago
I wonder if lotus still works, and if those backups are sequental. Good luck getting the data!
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by marak830 9y ago
You are right, sorry not sure how I missed that part
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by marak830 9y ago
Hmm okay, I appreciate the reply, I don't necessarily agree it's the best course, but then again, I'm not a call major, so it's mostly gut feeling(always a bad place to start from haha).
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by marak830 9y ago
Or push for what we have here in Japan? One government company owns all the lines, but isn't allowed to sell bandwidth to customers, but has to allow any changes npany to resell that bandwidth. Competition is pretty damn good here (com
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by marak830 9y ago
Wasn't Netflix being artifically slowed down at one point?
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by marak830 9y ago
Good luck pulling off any usable data, I still remember going through over 100 flopies as a teenager looking for files I had backedup and seeing so many damn read errors. Although now I'm interested to know what's on those disks
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by marak830 9y ago
Actually, as to the throttling of video: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/veriz...
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by marak830 9y ago
Hmm that an interesting point of view for those schools to take. I'm sure they have a reason for it, I just haven't quite figured it :-) Putting it into something I'm more familiar with(eg formally trained), if I had a chef w

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