It’s actually quite a bit more than the median pay for a head cook or titled chef in the US as well. I don’t know what Dennis was on about. $16/h is pretty good for a cook in the US, even in more expensive areas. With ongoing staff shortages the last couple of years, $18/hour is possible in wealthier (and more…

Ummm. This is not a dismal amount for a chef or cook. That is rather high actually. Friend of mine worked a station for Mario God Damned Batali for years. And was paid $11.50/h. Now Batali, and the Bastianich restaurant group he worked for are somewhat legendary for low wages and screwing their employees out of pay.…

That’s a valid vote. Sweet Baby Ray’s is a good condiment. If you’re squirting it on a sausage, or dipping things in it it does a great job.

I have family among those upstate Acadian Mainers.

Were are they serving lobster rolls on a sweet hot dog bun?

I feel like the on going rage for lobster rolls does it dirty.

Yeah that’s the thing with Maine and Italian Sandwiches. It’s one the rare stories like this that seems to be true. But a Maine Italian Sandwich, origin point or not, doesn’t resemble what anyone means by Italian Sandwich.

That’s typical. Most states operate on the three tier system. You can not be a retailer, producer, and wholesaler. It’s pick one.

I believe what you just described is called “normal working day”.

Some people are astounding idiots. And a lot of the beer business expects a hell of a lot of freebees, unlimited returns, massive discounts, bribes etc. Somewhat particularly when dealing with Bud and Coors.

Because once upon a time that’s how it all…

They already reduced volume on the rest of them. Because their entire catalog is cratering.

Seltzers haven’t so much gotten into the seasonal thing until very recently. They do do limited availability flavors, here till it’s gone kind of things. And frequently introduce new flavors, and discontinue old ones.

The whole product category is heavily seasonal though. The volume in spring and summer is vastly…

remains good for 9 months after production.

I called this. The signs were out there for over a year. The band wagon effect with hundreds of seltzers launching in the last 3 years. Major brands shifting to iterations targeted at other FMB niches. High ABV, the “lemonade seltzers” that are just diet hard lemonade. The attempt at the same for iced tea, hard sodas.…

It’s a very profitable marketing pitch.

They know it works poorly, they know stuff goes wrong. But it’s cheaper this way. The “disruption” tech and venture capital all prattle on about is nothing more fucking labor and ignoring regulations. 

so if you are eating veggies, give them some.

And if the skin is contaminated?

So normal? Cause excess inventory on the lot was the big, never gonna fix it back when "millennials just don't want cars" during a global recession. 

Uh. All that competition in the car business means the “incentive” is once production can ramp back up. Some one will do so for the sake of undercutting you.

If it’s between waiting on a GM at a high price. And buying a Ford now for less. What are people going to do?

I mean Ford just launched an economy truck. That…

There is something very off putting about that front end for sure.

It has existed for a couple hundred years.