This will fail spectacularly within 3 months. Starbucks is a total luxury item, nobody NEEDS their overpriced product, if it becomes inconvenient their customers will simply go elsewhere. It’s not easy to change consumer behaviors, but it’s considerably harder when you are an inessential business.

Leaving the salt off the patty is probably a mistake, it’s already pretty bland with it, beef really needs salt to bring out its flavor. I am quite confident that even if you left out the sprinkling of salt from the patty, you’d still have over 1000 mg of sodium. According to McDonald’s nutrition calculator:

What’s weird is I only see them on the PCH and the 405, no other highways, no other streets.

Looking at their lot design, they really screwed the pooch here. A bunch of the CFAs in SoCal have added extra queue space by carving out some of their parking lot spots, but this one is tiny and there’s nowhere to expand on-site. It’s really short-sited and they should have dealt with this a lot sooner. When you have…

With only 15 city councilmembers and so many businesses in each district, I don’t know that a little shop would even have enough money or clout to get to their councilmember to grease their palms. This to me feels more like city incompetence than malfeasance. If they built a cheaply-knocked-together, oversized wood…

Sounds like you were at Palisades Park on the cliffs over the PCH, having just gotten food from the McDonalds west of the mall down past the old Sears. I partly grew up in that area, the thing with Santa Monica is it has always tried to be very liberal about homeless policies since the ‘80s, the city offering…

Ouch, how do you assemble this one up and one down? It’s brown on the outside, just like regular crown-and-heel buns.

Sure but that wasn’t the argument, the argument was paper bags vs. reusable bags.

It is tucked away in one corner because a few years ago T. Joe’s had to redesign their stores from all the problems, they used to be at the end of aisle 2 or 3 but customers just couldn’t behave themselves.

I’m down for this, but not sweetened cones, that’s just... ahhh who am I kidding? I’ll do this the next time it gets hot. Just got to make a dressing that won’t drip out the bottom. This sounds awesome and nobody is going to make unsweetened cones like these, only cake cones are unsweetened and they will absorb like…

Ha! I just left my review in the other Whopper Melt article like 30 minutes ago. Lilian’s bread clearly was assembled backwards, with the grilled side facing the burger instead of out. My sample had the bread facing the right way, but it was forgettable white bread in taste and texture, it offered nothing. The only…

Customer samples were horrible in the before-times when you’d get a cluster of them causing a bottleneck on the aisles, but it was nice to try new things at Trader Joe’s and Costco.

Paper bags are awful, awful things. They require a much higher degree of bagging training and skill to properly load, they hold a smaller load than plastic while weighing a lot more and taking up a ton more space under the checkstand, and they’ll fail often on the customer before they even get out of the store even…

Weird, at stores here in Los Angeles you can’t buy alcohol at self-checkout, I didn’t think that was going to be a regional thing. I hate self-checkout, but since COVID I’ve used it almost exclusively when it’s offered. Stores will eventually find their shrinkage through self-checkout is too damaging and will end up…

Tried this yesterday, my grade is: “C” with the free combo add-ons and “C- or worse” for the burger alone. I got the spicy variant and it came with a free combo for the soaring high price of the burger at $5.99 here in LA. The burger isn’t terrible, they took a double cheeseburger and added sauce, grilled onions, and…

Each has their own things. People from Palms and Mar Vista don’t seem pretentious, Culver City is a mix of types, Inglewood is just trying to get by, Santa Monica has people who live above Montana that sniff their own farts and folks who live below Wilshire who are just trying to get by. Brentwood thinks it’s Beverly…

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