I think it’s that for some people, owning/running a restaurant or bar is a romantic idea. I’ve seen a few episodes of shows like Bar Rescue, and one of the most common themes on the show is that the owner of the bar got into the business because they “thought it would be cool to own a bar.”

After 20 years in the restaurant/bar business one of the things that still sticks with me is how many restaurant and bar owners have never worked in the business. This is a huge reason for the failure rate in the first 18 months being 75% instead of a lower number.

Perhaps it’s obvious, but a corollary to trying to start a restaurant without enough capital is spending way too much capital on start up costs. I work in construction and the number of restaurants I’ve seen move into a space that was completely renovated 2-3 years ago, only to then rip everything out and start over…

This presidency has screwed up our perceptions of relative time to the point where even Einstein would be impressed.

Agreed. Asking friends to comp their work for you - in any industry - is a dick move. If they offer a “friends and family” discount, great, but people are trying to make a living here.

you bring up rule #9: true friends will never ask for a comp — especially if you’re just starting out.

>You know those places in town where restaurants open and close within a few months.

Benoit Blanc is the sort of detective Agatha Christie would have written if she’d been born in Louisiana instead of England. The bombastic ruminations on the case, usually spoken to himself as the other characters stand nonplussed, the actual police authorities’ strange deference to and cooperation with him as he…

I hope they keep Blanc as a supporting character, and don’t try to make him the main character with some kind of capital-B Backstory. 

Have they considered releasing real chimpanzees into the stands? They could put team t-shirts on them and it’d be adorable!

“My name is Tommy Callaway, and I managed to have a long, intimate relationship with an adult woman and raise two little girls without ever once considering how fucked up it is to treat a woman’s body like public property. That proves what a good guy I am, right?”

Dammit, you chucklefuck, your intentions were perfectly clear. You wanted to hurt and embarrass a total stranger because some stray gross impulse darted across your lizard brain and being a white male, you never even thought to resist or question it. You honestly expected her to find that funny or at least “laugh it…

“Tommy is a loving husband and father.”

Maybe he's just going to run for the Republican nomination in 2024!

This says a lot about how inept the Biden campaign is. They should have seen this coming, and made sure she was paid off before she ever had that baby. 

You, Sir/Ma’am, don’t deserve stars. You deserve whole-fucking-universes.

Have you met our President?

See HBO, you can end a story properly. :D

Thank you for sticking to sports.