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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Somewhere Ekhard Pfeiffer is revving his engine angrily at one of his own employees for crossing the street on foot.
  2. 25 years later it’s still wild to me that Compaq paid $300mm for Zip2. imagine explaining to somebody who was born at any time since the day Zip2 was founded what that company was.
  3. I would bet folding money that nobody on this board has spent more time eating restaurant food in more 3rd and 4th tier towns in the lower 48 than I have (including Weatherford, Granbury, Mineral Wells, Cleburne, etc), but I’m also capable of understanding that struggling local economies aren’t representative of growing ones. There is no such thing as the “$2.31/hr + tip model.” There are a few places with very few opportunities where an employer can get away with paying the minimum wage. In most places that are hiring, they can’t. I’m a big fan of that model- also makes it easier to hold onto line cooks. Tipping is bad for business.
  4. I have no idea about weatherford, but for the 70% of Texans who live in competitive labor markets you can’t hire servers for that. You keep talking about the “$2.31/hr+tips model.” In competitive markets (ie, the ones where the jobs are, and the workers, and the customers, and the success) it’s usually more like $10-12/hr plus tips.
  5. Now who can argue with that? I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for stating what needed to be said.
  6. Local frog starting to question decision to give scorpion a ride
  7. now now boys, you can both be cunts
  8. I heard a funny story about a guy saying that to a hooker during the Money 2020 conference in Vegas a few years ago, and she said “do you work in IT?”
  9. Sigh. Cory Pullig was pretty good, Stephen McGee was a very good college QB who was 4th round pick and a backup in the NFL for 4 years, and Ryan Tannehill was a 1st rounder and a special talent. I put Quinn in the McGee bucket. everyone happy?
  10. I know what I’m talking about and Quinn is a Stephen McGee on a special scale of Corey Pullig to Ryan Tannehill.
  11. Well don’t waste the good stuff on him first.
  12. Another good coffee locally is Talisman - it’s a small operation that grows their beans on the family farm in Nicaragua, ships them here, and the son and his wife roasts them locally and sells coffee at their shop on Manor, and at a number of farmers markets.
  13. The last 48 hours on twitter, a summary:
  14. Killed a bottle of Rock Hill Farms on Wednesday night with cousin and brothers in law.
  15. I also forgot about Curra’s coffee. Will go get a bag in Hyde Park today.
  16. Super easy: 1.5 cups of quick grits 6 cups water 1.5 tsp salt 1 pound grated sharp cheddar a little blue cheese 3-4oz 2 tsp old bay 1 tsp Worcestershire 4 eggs, beat to hell 2 4oz cans of green chiles 2/3 a bag of frozen corn kernels (I prefer the roasted corn kernels if you can find it) Smoked paprika preheat oven to 350, and grease up a 3 qt (9x13) casserole with butter 1) cook your grits in the water on the stove with salt until thick. Turn off the heat. 2) add the butter and cheese stir until melted into the grits. Stir in the Old Bay and Worcestershire sauce. 3) stir in the green chiles 4) stir in the corn 5) fold in the eggs, mixing them in completely but gently Pour into the baking dish, bake uncovered for an hour, sprinkle with smoked paprika.
  17. I’m not conflating it. I’m saying most restaurants just aren’t paying tipped workers a base wage of $2.31. Even, apparently, in Corpus. As @Incredulity points out, the minimum wage is mostly irrelevant.
  18. Vivek Ramaswamy inspired me to watch Whiplash and the JK Simmons character reminds me the best wrestling coach I ever had. I learned a lot and what I learned eventually made me a pretty good coach and boss and a whole lot of other good things, but that man ruined the sport for me.
  19. Also, what is a “retired artist?”
  20. Most of them. It works like this: my 15 year old kid gets a job in a restaurant in Austin like 6 years ago (it’s more now, stay with me). Her “wage” is $5/hr, because NOBODY ACTUALLY MAKES MINIMUM WAGE in customer facing roles or jobs that require training in Texas, but they guarantee that she will make 17.50/hr net of tips and make up whatever tips don’t cover. Of course for grown-up staff those numbers are much higher, like $12&$20 or $25 straight. in other words, you’re making a distinction without a difference. It might be $2.31, but even when it is, it’s not, and nobody even offers it because it’s a bad look and restaurants who try it can’t stay open. Um, no. Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep line cooks in a city in Texas? They aren’t often getting much or any of the tip out but they aren’t making the minimum wage unless the restaurant REALLY wants to be short staff in the kitchen until they go out of business. Tips exist, yes. But they didn’t have a floor? Floors are common in big cities. I’m assuming they didn’t stick around? Well I do live in Austin but I’m looking at server and cook listings in corpus and indeed and it’s all around $15-17/hr.
  21. Where are these restaurants in real life in 2024? You mean like the ones that guarantee a $15/hour floor net of tips? Or the ones who can’t keep line cooks? Tell me none of your kids work restaurant jobs without telling me. Correct, because almost no restaurants in Texas cities pay the minimum wage to staff they have to train. It’s not viable. 💋
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