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Re: Tell HN: Food is too expensive now

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Post by techsin101 »

armchairhacker wrote: post #5

Learn to cook. Seriously though. With only a bit of practice you can cook restaurant-quality food at home. And you can buy high-quality ingredients, but they are actually cheap because you’re buying them unprepared and in bulk. There are many high quality recipes and tutorials online. Look up Ethan Chlebowski, Adam Ragusea, and Joshua Weissman. These are videos for basic recipes with grocery-store ingredients, not fa…

What I find sad is masses making average salary, quietly suffering in silence with their heads down and feeling ashamed for not being able to buy even common fruits in quantities as they used to just a few years ago.

Re: Tell HN: Food is too expensive now

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Post by techsin101 »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #46
eddy_chan wrote: post #15

Too much of what you pay goes to the rentier that owns the premises. Inflation of ingredients, inflation of wages, inflation of utilities. It all adds up. Something gets squeezed, either the experience or your wallet. As other posters have said, climate change, war adds to it too. And the world has just about reached peak-population outside of Africa. The developed world including all the industralial powerhouses of…

> goes to the rentier that owns the premises Was looking at some premium clothing with my partner at the primest spot in town, discounted from 300 euros to 100 when I realised all the margins go to the property owner… Most of peoples wages go to pay rents too…

future historians would probably remember this era as post-industrialization hyper rent sucking era fueled by short-sighted govt policies, lobbyists/interest groups, and greed.

Re: Tell HN: Food is too expensive now

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Post by selimthegrim »

db48x wrote: post #40
bergenty wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would hope the economies of scale of cooking large amounts of food at a restaurant would help bring down the costs though.

I’m not sure that there are economies of scale, except perhaps in special situations. Someone has to chop all the vegetables, slice all the fruit, bake all the desserts, fold all the napkins, mop the floors, clean the restrooms, etc, etc. The staff often begin work hours before opening, and leave hours after closing. Those costs don’t go down if you have more customers, they go up. Batch cooking only works in some ca…

I think Luby’s exited stage left pursued by a virus.

Re: Tell HN: Food is too expensive now

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Post by csomar »

badpun wrote: post #44
csomar wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but that's a tons of horse**. You can rent a villa with a pool today in Ubud, Bali for as little as $30 per night. You can get reasonable food at a restaurant for as little as $3. I also booked a flight from Istanbul to Ankara (one-way/mid-August) for $28. This is a US problem. Yes, the world is going through serious inflation right now but nothing comes close to the US.

> I also booked a flight from Istanbul to Ankara (one-way/mid-August) for $28. > Yes, the world is going through serious inflation right now but nothing comes close to the US. Turkey is actually at 60% inflation right now.

I think the flight price will be adjusted to the USD/gas prices; I don't think they'll be subsidizing those out of there pocket (it's a touristic country). Yes, I'm aware they are going through rampant inflation, but I'd expect any arbitrage to be played out fairly efficiently.

Re: Tell HN: Food is too expensive now

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Post by selimthegrim »

selimthegrim wrote: post #53
db48x wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure that there are economies of scale, except perhaps in special situations. Someone has to chop all the vegetables, slice all the fruit, bake all the desserts, fold all the napkins, mop the floors, clean the restrooms, etc, etc. The staff often begin work hours before opening, and leave hours after closing. Those costs don’t go down if you have more customers, they go up. Batch cooking only works in some ca…

I think Luby’s exited stage left pursued by a virus.

Ok I stand corrected it’s still around.
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