“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
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Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
#2Anecdotally, it's the same for coffee. Office lobby coffee shops are invariably terrible. The decent ones are always at least a 5-10 minute walk away.
Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
#3Anecdotally, it's the same for coffee. Office lobby coffee shops are invariably terrible. The decent ones are always at least a 5-10 minute walk away.
Sometimes in another office building's lobby.
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#4Anecdotally, it's the same for coffee. Office lobby coffee shops are invariably terrible. The decent ones are always at least a 5-10 minute walk away.
The coffee from the machine in the office is even worse.
Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
#5This makes intuitive sense.
High mass-transit corridor real-estate (rail, air, road) leases come at a premium so those higher fixed-costs and must be balanced against a higher-volume of less-breadth of service with the same fixed (or even slightly higher) labor costs.
In food service, high-volume is (mostly) inversely correlated with quality.
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#6Looking at their actual results (https://preview.redd.it/znmnejgab5je1.png?width=1000&format=...), I don't see any positive or negative correlation. Although I can subjectively confirm the hypothesis.
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#7I've observed the following:
1) An alarming number of regions in the world have a pizza joint called "New York Pizza", "Manhattan Pizza", or similar.
2) The similarity of the pizza therein to the actual thin, greasy slices served up in pizza joints from actual New York is inversely proportional to the location's distance from New York.
So, the New York Pizza in Boston -- pretty close. The New York Pizza in Brisbane, QLD is alien by comparison and I think they consider "pepperoni" and "salami" interchangeable down there.
Re: “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
#8I've observed the following: 1) An alarming number of regions in the world have a pizza joint called "New York Pizza", "Manhattan Pizza", or similar. 2) The similarity of the pizza therein to the actual thin, greasy slices served up in pizza joints from actual New York is inversely proportional to the location's distance from New York. So, the New York Pizza in Boston -- pretty close. The New York Pizza in Brisbane,…
While the work provides some additional data, it does little more than re-propose an already-common hypothesis — that pizza which is closer in distance is also closer in flavor. The author is searching for the minimum publishable unit, and misses even that mark. I advise against publishing.
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#9He didn't find a correlation, or rather found that there is no correlation, between proximity to a railway station and how the kebab is reviewed. It's a nice study for a statistics class!
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#10The only place this isn't true is Japan.