They just get so many things wrong on a fundamental level but they speak with such unearned confidence, and any evidence that goes against their worldview they dismiss out of hand as the result of a sinister conspiracy.

  • dat_math [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    cw fresh liberal theory braindump:

    spoiler

    Are those pre-pandemic era prices you are referring to? Yes, things have changed. The pandemic highlighted how restaurants had a fundamentally flawed business model by operating so tightly with such small margins. A healthy business needs to be able to weather bumps in the road like the pandemic, but if you are doing the equivalent of living paycheck to paycheck as a business, that means your prices are too low. The pandemic really highlighted how as restaurant patrons, we were underpaying this entire time. A meaningful portion of the price increase you’ve seen at restaurants across the board since then has simply been correcting prices to what they should have been this whole time.

    It does suck, because we were all used to getting an underpriced meal and and it sucks giving up something we are all so used to but the solution isn’t to keep a flawed restaurant business culture where most fail in the first 5 years and most can’t handle being shut down for a couple of weeks.the solution is to treat dining out as more of a luxury than we were previously and adapt by cooking more and what have you.

    profits are a divine construct

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      It does suck, because we were all used to getting an underpriced meal and and it sucks giving up something we are all so used to but the solution isn’t to keep a flawed restaurant business culture where most fail in the first 5 years and most can’t handle being shut down for a couple of weeks.the solution is to treat dining out as more of a luxury than we were previously and adapt by cooking more and what have you.

      Ah yes, nothing says making sure a ton of restaurants don’t collapse into bankruptcy like jacking up their prices to the point of being a luxury and suddenly realizing people don’t have the disposable income for that.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Hmm. Where is my eye gouging out fork I never want to read something like that again.

      “Careful chief! Any price the market offers is, by definition, fair!”

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Funny how this never applies to labor costs.

      “You see, porky realized this whole time he was long overdue for a raise! Sorry, you’ll have less stuff because of inflation….wait, don’t ask for a raise because poor porky might have to go without! And we can’t have that!”

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        Funny how this never applies to labor costs.

        It’s infuriating trying to talk to liberals about labor as a commodity because they think everyone is on some PMC salary with benefits, not realizing people really do work minimum wage with no health insurance, vacation days, and so on. I’ve seen that look of “deer in headlights” too many times when I mention people bargaining for higher wages because of so-called labor shortages and it’s maddening.