17 Replies to “Desert Runs Out of Sand”

  1. Don’t look good.
    Don’t look good at all.
    For our immediate future with our current assholes at the helm.

  2. I could see a hospital based restaurant having difficulty during this Chinese Coronavirus fiasco. But the losses predate the release of COVID19 on an unsuspecting world.

    Does anyone know if they keep the restaurant open 24 hours a day, to serve the doctors, nurses, patients and workers in the hospital? I worked a 24 hour restaurant that was empty for hours at a time overnight. The only reason it was open at night was company policy. That would rack up losses that need to be overcome in the dayshifts. But most hospital food is only available from 8 to 8 from my experience.

    Sounds like featherbedding jobs and bad management. One of the easiest ways to go broke is to open a restaurant.

    1. Our local hospital is across the street from my kids high school. A lot of kids go to the hospital “food court ” at lunchtime. That business is kind of weird, and I imagine non existent while the kids weren’t at school.

  3. I know a retired government bureaucrat who insists government can do everything better than the private sector. There really isn’t any point in debating the issue with someone like that.

    1. And, if you don’t drink that stuff, then coffee grower Juan Valdez will have to turn to producing cocaine and become, thereby, a gazillionaire drug lord.

  6. I guess that kind of blows the theory that if you just pay your employees enough you will make money. Even with free rental and utilities they managed to lose. My guess is there sick day absences is about 10 times the industry average. And how many times has Justine told you he is “investing ” your money? Add to that they are going to tax you and provide “free” clean energy and save the earth. We should all be afraid-very afraid!!

  7. Wait till the fuckers completely take over the energy file.
    Then it’ll just be food production to wreck for those who haven’t frozen to death.

  8. Hell, Give me any business to run, and project a loss, I’ll meet or beat target every time , big time:-))))

  9. I thought everyone knows that the only way restaurants make a profit is by underpaying staff. That’s why all the staff are from shithole countries. One thing you notice in small towns are restaurant owners buying groceries in retail stores when they have good sales so we know they aren’t saving on food cost unless they are a big chain. One of the toughest businesses are restaurants and most survive by working long hours with underpaid relatives from shithole countries. There’s no great management secret.

  12. $26.00/hr. to schlep coffee. SMFH
    Tims is owned by Restaurant Brands International and once again raising the question: Is there stock out there Vanguard doesn’t own?

  13. No surprise when they’re paying UNIONIZED staff $26 /hr when minimum wage is $10 bucks an hour. I worked in the restaurant biz for more than 20 years and the biggest cost is the cost of labour. NO resraurant can turn a profit when labour costs are two and half times the standard. Someone didn’t do their due diligence.
    A smart business person would have known it would be impossible to make a profit with $26/hr wages. Oh wait…it’s gov’t. Never mind.

  14. Think it’s only government-run hospitals? I’d bet good money that most non-outsourced cafeterias/eating establishments inside government buildings have been money losers for years, both in Canada and the US, unless they’re located in places that get a ton of visitors, such as the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in DC. Prior to its massive years-long renovation project it had national chains in its cafeteria area, including McDonald’s, a concept which made absolute sense given how many kids were running around there on any given day.

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