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The state of the restaurant industry
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#293I run an online mobile ordering app for restaurants as a side project and have never seen this many sign ups in one day. I have a full time job so had to bring my gf on to help with customer support.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
if you're home all day long one of the main spurs for going out to eat is gone, at the end of the day you're no longer too tired to make food, you're not getting home too late to make it at a good time, you don't need to save time. Thus the only spur left to wanting to order food is eating something tasty you can't make at home easily - I admit that is good but given that the delivery is also a potential virus delive…
There are a lot of us tech yuppies that either can’t cook or won’t cook. We will continue to order in all our meals. Of course that depends on the variety remaining. It may not. It’s been 3 weeks and I’m already starting to tire of my local options. Maybe I might end up learning to cook after all...
I don't get why you're being down voted for this. Frankly you'd be helping out your local restaurants that are trying to minimize their red ink.
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stop with the doomsday panic. This lockdown thing isn’t going to last more than a few weeks at most—at least without massive social upheaval. Source: my ill informed opinion, same as yours. same source as yours.
Doomsday panic? Ill informed opinion? I'm literally looking at the chart used by the White House that comes from the data generated by the UK government. Look for yourself: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
For that one paper you showed me you’ll find another dozen research papers that say something entirely different.
Until we know how many people have this or had it, suggesting multi-month lockdowns is ill informed, dangerous doomsday nonsense.
PS: while bitching about downvotes is lame, it is quite disappointing to see HN devolve into yet another panic fueled echo chamber where only “rooting for” the worst case scenario is tolerated.
Don’t let this place turn into an echo chamber people. There are plenty of subreddits and social media groups where you can get your fill of doomsday scenarios. This place bills itself as full of rational thinking people, let’s put on our critical thinking caps and consider the problem from all angles.
Ps: /r/corvid19 seems to be one of the few places on the internet where people are discussing this stuff rationally and not immediately jumping to the worst case scenario.
Re: The state of the restaurant industry
#296Opentable could help their "restaurant partners" by charging them smaller amount.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
if you're home all day long one of the main spurs for going out to eat is gone, at the end of the day you're no longer too tired to make food, you're not getting home too late to make it at a good time, you don't need to save time. Thus the only spur left to wanting to order food is eating something tasty you can't make at home easily - I admit that is good but given that the delivery is also a potential virus delive…
I'd like to believe this is true, but I once was at my boss's house and saw inside his fridge. All it has was a few beers. I asked him where his food was and he said he ate out for every meal. He was a single guy in a 5000 square foot home on an acre of land. I suppose he could afford to buy every meal out. I kind of doubt he will magically start using his kitchen.
every statistic has its outliers. If I was rich enough I suppose I would have a catering deal to have food delivered to me from a few restaurants, but I'm not rich enough. Probably most people aren't rich enough and only eat out for the reasons I do, I'm just too tired to make the food once again and want something I like the taste of quick. Probably the people rich enough to eat out every meal have a 5000 square foot home on an acre of land - at least.
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#298It's a useless industry, it's a disposable luxury. I feel for the workers, but as a whole, less disposable luxuries sounds good for fiscal responsibility and productivity.
That's unnecessarily harsh, but I do agree we might want to consider developing an economy less based on such types of consumer spending. If a particularly bad flu can take us out like these, we are very fragile indeed.
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you like the technical aspects of "tech", you could learn to love the technical aspects of cooking. You can treat cooking as a chore, an art, or a science. Your choice!
Even if you love cooking as an art, it can still be a chore sometimes. It's hard to deliver art when tired, picky children are screaming.
Just like it's hard to deliver good code when tired, picky managers are screaming.
Re: The state of the restaurant industry
#300Wow, 50-70% drop in online reservations, phone reservations, and walk-in diners, compared to last year, in every country measured by OpenTable. The restaurant sector generates $3 trillion in annual sales worldwide, and provides employment to a vast number of individuals.[a] Absent government intervention, the cascading economic impact from just this one sector will be enormous. [a] https://medium.com/@CravyHQ/the-res…
We’re feeling it baaaad here in New Orleans. Roughly 8% of our workforce is in the service sector and our film/television industry has ground to a halt. I work in video production. My friends/colleagues and I are basically just sitting around now hoping productions can get back up again in a safe but still somewhat timely manner. It’s going to be rough for a while.