I’m still firmly of the belief that if you’re going to be having a cold sandwich for lunch than it should’ve been in your backpack and you should expect nothing but disappointment if you have somebody else make it.
The parts I like are the attention to detail on the size of the bread being perfectly rectangular, the cheese slices being perfectly equally sized, and the consistently overlapping slices of ham that span the exact length of the bread. Then that all combines to form a shitty looking sandwich. Perfectly optimized sandwich designed by accountants.
I’m not sure what you’re asking? By the webui I just mean the default web interface of any lemmy instance (i.e. not through an alternative frontend or app)
Thank you. I’m with you now. I just migrated over because I used Boost on Reddit and received a notification Boost was now available on this new platform 👍
That crazy part he did it for no reason. I am so glad to not be chasing karma no more. Unfortunately I still will go back here in Lemmy and see all my posts and comments see how they are doing.
Didn’t realize just how addictive I was to those stupid upvotes.
I never would have seen this without the “repost”. I don’t get why people are so offended about seeing something again. Don’t like it? Saw it before? Keep scrolling then.
No, you could not be more wrong. We did not leave reddit just for the admins, we also hoped to leave low effort posts and outright lies behind, there’s no karma here so what’s even the point of OP?
Bought a cold sandwich at a quick-service place in England.
There's your problem. This one has a certain appeal, though. I'd pay eight pounds just to be spared the usual pile of cucumber slices, old egg, and obscene quantity of mayonnaise.
I too am impressed they managed to not include tomatoe, avocado, bacon, lettuce, or a sauce of any sort, while simultaneously not bothering to interlace the cheese between the meat for a more interesting texture profile.
I’ve clearly eaten too many lunches from food vendors (including SB) inside convention centers because I expected see maybe 2 slices of ham and 1 of cheese for $8 (in 2023 money). And maybe a lettuce leaf that is probably a recycled hot coffee sleeve dyed green.
I don’t think it is. Look at the second slice from the top. There’s a hole on the left edge. If it was folded, I would expect to see a layer between the hole and the third slice. If it is folded, every fold is so perfect that there is no overhang on any edge. You cannot possibly fold irregularly shaped ham slices with that kind of precision.
It’s not actually. That’s the second store they claim is the first. The real first was on Western. Coffee is the same though, you’re right, better to go to the roasterie
This I can actually weight in on a bit. They have their recipe under full version control and plant operations can only adjust it slightly without HQ doing an override. Not their air waste handling however, that is under local control.
My family ran a local sandwich shop for years. Here’s the problem.
If this is downtown, the local sandwich shop isn’t even there, in part because Starbucks helped price them out of being able to rent. Every supermarket now has a sandwich counter too, so local sandwich shops don’t do well in shopping centers either. Fast food has slightly improved their quality over the years so that’s more competitors at the low end. And Subway, period.
You’re paying for the convenience at Starbucks and in some cases convenience is valuable. If you don’t care about time and can go out of your way to a local sandwich shop, you get better food for less.
I was in an area like that once. It felt weird. Like I stepped into some alternative earth history where the franchises and chains all had different names. It was basically the same items for sale however.
Idk…local independent shops aren’t necessarily cheaper. There is a local coffee shop somewhat by me and it’s more expensive than Starbucks. Independent places don’t have the advantage of mass scale like the big name fast food and chain places do. When I go independent, I often find myself paying more money for less convenience. So it’s not even just convenience that you’re sacrificing
Yeah that can be true. Not all local businesses are competitively run.
While it’s true they don’t have the same economies of scale as large corporations, they also don’t have the same overhead. Starbucks coffee stands support a skyscraper full of bureaucrats somewhere. And Starbucks corporate has a stock price to worry about. Local shops don’t have all that crap, and can often get away with charging less. My dad just charged 15% below the corporate shop down the block, as a rule, and it was still profitable.
Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.
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