With all the consolidation it feels like cooking is no longer a real thing outside high end restaurants.Forget farm to table, most places just taste like they've fully embraced their role in the Sysco truck to microwave pipeline.https://www.foodandwine.com/independent-restaurants-oppose-sysco-restaurant-depot-deal-11941190
Also people can't afford to go out to eat anymore, you're looking at $100 plus tip if you take a family of four out to eat dinner. I think the whole restaurant industry is fucked so fast food tries to replace it in a way but its not even good quality anymore. Very few from scratch restaurants exist anymore, even in cities, only really in affluent areas. I think the industry has already fragmented to goyslop delivery (poorfags), sysco slop enjoyers (the dwindling middle class) and private chef tastings (richfags).
>>21964966I don't see how that would affect smaller places more than ingredient cost. Sysco slop is found at American shitholes. Foreign places buy real ingredients, and there are still good American places in my suburb at least.
>>21965018Exactly this desuWhen COL goes up families spend less on entertainmentI think there are enough desperate crazy people to keep the restaurant industry afloat as they see garbage places not worth the money vacate their spaces. I hope to see more chains closing desu
>>21964966Restaurant industry’s biggest problem is the major supply chains forming a de facto oligarchy and squeezing the little people (I used to work as a sales manager for one of the world’s biggest suppliers, BidFood, so I’ve seen it in person). I got the job when I quit my executive chef role after ten years because I was tired of the hours.
>>21965018>people can't afford to go out to eatNot enough Boomers to go around anymore.
>>21965047Interesting. Do you still work in a restaurant adjacent role?
Covid just amplified every single existing issue (low wages, thin margins, supply costs, corporate standardization, rising prices, tightened wallets) and made it 10 times worse. Things might bounce back but it’s gonna take a while.Hipsters get a lot of shit and not all of the following places are good but the 2010s “gastro pub” fad did make people start caring about the quality of food more at middle end places
>>21965214No, I’m a SysAdmin for a multinational now. Hours are worse than sales manager but better than cooking, and pay is as good as both put together.
>go to any restaraunt in general area>every single place is using the exact same chicken/beef/pork/vegetables from sysco>people wonder why every restaurant tastes the same
>>21965226Congrats on the career change, and thank you for your prior service.
>>21965018>delivery (poorfags)ill never get this, if youre poor you dont have money for deliverythese people arent poor, theyre bad with money
>>21965018if im really dying to eat out ill hit the buffet
>>21965222it's not going to bounce back during this administration
>>21965018>100 for a family of fourI fuckin wishgoing anywhere worth a shit I'm happy to get out for under 100 per person
>>21965323the "delivery" is metaphorical but there are a lot of people living beyond their means, cycle of poverty and all thatdoordash normalizing BNPL on takeaway has to be the greatest wall street scam in the last decade
>>21964966>With all the consolidation it feels like cooking is no longer a real thing outside high end restaurants.Correct. We've industrialized food to a degree that no matter what restaurant you go to, you're eating the same food as every other one, just in a slightly different configuration. Even if you're in a nicer place with an open kitchen, theres still a chance they're getting the same base foods from sysco, or cheater sauces that are built upon.
I just don’t like the dirty people who work at restaurants touching my food.
>>21965539>doordash normalizing BNPL on takeaway has to be the greatest wall street scam in the last decadedoor dash gets their money, the restaurant gets their money, the deliverer gets a few pennies, and the bank is simply owed a massive amount of money. Doordash and restaurants take out massive loans to expand and simply adapt to markets. Are you seeing the fake circle of debt going around to itself? Its basically the same issue as the AI bubble where they're all just transferring the same money in a little circle. Money isn't real, just debtmaxx.
>>21965323>these people arent poor, theyre bad with moneyIt's both, anon. Do you think they're buying the delivery with money that they actually have? More likely they're just putting it on a credit card; one of 5 that they have but this one has a bit of a balance on it since they just paid the minimum.
>>21965554You've seen what is truly going on but debtmaxxing isn't the right way. You'll still wind up being on the hook for that money even though corporations will get bailed out. Best thing to do is not participate as much as you can. I didn't even get a credit card until I was in my early 30s and I barely use it.
>>21965592>debtmaxxing isn't the right way.correct, it was a meme but it ensures the slave class stays a slave class. do menial work for no money, then most of that money goes back to a bank, which is then lent again to a large company, likely an employer of the slave, and then the cycle goes on for 50 years. Corporations only get bailed out when they're an iconic backbone to the government. Otherwise their IP simply gets bought by someone else.
