I understand that people should have patience with the restaurant workers that they interact with directly. That was true before the pandemic, too. It’s bad to mistreat servers or whatever.

If any restaurant owners are reading this*, I would happily pay more for a meal if it means the people working there will earn a livable wage.

“I’d much rather be told there is a wait than have a subpar meal.” right.

you know why? bc Texas is not doing free govt handouts for doing nothing anymore like all the lazy blue states, who are racking up the national debt and spiraling our inflation. No handouts means people have to go back to work, which means normal levels of service. Gasp.

Sure. I also expect managers not to seat more than they can realistically serve at one time, whatever their limitation might be. I’d much rather be told there is a wait than have a subpar meal. It’s not ideal but you can only control what you can control and for restaurants a lot of the time that’s how many tables…

I work in the industry, our shop still has masks because not everyone has been vaccinated. Here is a tip: If the staff is masked, you will probably be expected to put one on while inside with the staff.

Interesting seeing this post today. Friend and I had our first time dining in in 15 months last Friday. Our usual place, and it was nice to see a lot of the employees we knew. Manager we also knew stopped by and was very excited to see us. And he said a lot of what was said above. How hard it was to get employees…

The biggest question here is are the alternative method’s they propose actually doing to be sufficient for visiting tourists to see the vast majority of the wild beauty that is Hawai’i? I don’t see a city bus going up any of the jeep trails but maybe that’s just me.

Telling people to use public transport and Uber is not exactly solving the problem of price gouging by the rental car companies. 

Sympathy? For a company? None. I feel sorry for the employees though. The government handed the rental car companies welfare faster than they did for normal people.

Yep. From the ‘70s “Nifty Fifty” to the ‘90's dot-com bubble (anyone remember when AOL was going to own everything? No? Too young? Get of my lawn, you whippersnappers.) Now FAANG and the “gig” companies of the late 2010's-now. There’s an investment bubble every couple decades where everyone decides fundamentals no…

How is not wanting to pay $250 a day for an Altima “dumb”?

The point is that the default action of government in the US is to cater to the price gouging businesses at the expense of the people. The tourism authority could have publicly complained about how the price gouging is hurting tourism instead of going after the people who figured out how to work around this insane…

Hawai‘i Tourism Authority does not condone visitors renting moving trucks and vans for leisure purpose

Nah. You have the same number of cars but just for higher prices. So you have the number of cars available VS cars needed.

So they’re not encouraging the rental car agencies to go back to normal pricing?

There’s lots of brands of “spreadable butter” that’s not margarine. Its real butter with a little bit of a neutral oil (some also use olive oil for a “healthier” option) blended in to make it softer at fridge temperature. It works really well and is really perfectly good.

All this talk of butter and mayo gets me thinking... homemade ghee instead of oil for the fat? Who says no?

The term is plant butter now because trendy.

It’s because your standard mayo is made with oil that tastes totally gross if you heat it up. Maybe if you had an olive oil based mayo it would be different, but the low smoke point for olive oil would probably give you a burnt oil flavor.