Why resteraunt chains are closing, want a franchise.

[Fernando]

Even those are buying more and more pre-packaged and pre-cooked foods. They do it to cut expenses, but it often is not well received. We have a few Amish and Mennonites who are making all their food from scratch, and they are doing a land office business. I have been occasionally eating breakfast in a cafe that does prepare all their own breakfast food. But it's expensive - a very good omelette can run $15-20 with coffee. Speaking of which, a pound of coffee (or 11 oz. to be accurate) can make dozens of cups of coffee for under $10...Figure that at $2.50 A CUP. I recall pre-Starbucks that coffee cost a quarter or maybe fifty cents in a restaurant.

Going out to eat is not the healthiest. Don't know how much fat and sodium and sugar put into the food.
Though I went out to eat again tonight with family. This time to talk about the drama in our clan.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Don't know how much fat and sodium and sugar put into the food.

Fat is not a problem normally. Sodium can be for some people if over-done. Sugar is not good. Carbs are an issue with diabetics. Processed foods are problematic. Mennonite and Amish are very anti-processed foods. Their restaurants reflect that although their desserts are typically high in sugar.

 

[Tom D]

Now that i am in the winter of my age, and too lazy to cook. I eat more simple, and obviously more healthy. Although, i started doing that after losing a lot of weight as a teenager.
There are plenty of newsletters and articles, even on msn news feed, to see how bad certain foods are.
Go look at film 50 years ago, there is not 1 fat person in them. Now a days, there isn't 1 thin person in most commercials.

Mennonites and amish desserts may be high in sugar, but they burn that off quickly working their farms. Never saw an over weight one in my area. The pioneers needed 4 times the amount of todays calories to survive. The lewis and clarke people ate 5,000 calories a day. Probable mostly meat and some natural grain biscuits,

 

[Tom D]

Kroger axes 9,000 jobs as $112B theft crisis forces store closures​

Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, moved to close dozens of stores and cut thousands of jobs as rising costs, theft, and shifting consumer behavior strained profitability.

 

[Fernando]

Easy for companies to close blaming on crime.
Many Walgreens and Lucky supermarket have closed since Covid.
Their business model didn't work at some locations and had to close.
I remembered one time looking to buy a Walgreen property during the heydays because they were considered AAA NNN properties. Glad I didn't.
Before MAI appraisers considered their long term income as "risk free". I wondered how they appraise them now? More effort and analysis now.

 

[Dublin ohio]

Easy for companies to close blaming on crime.

Because it is real

 

[Fernando]

Stats on crime in SF and even Oakland last year decreased. Should we expect Walgreens to come back and open stores? No

 

[Tom D]

An undercover police sting in North Carolina resulted in nearly 80 arrests at Target and Walmart locations during the holiday season.

The Gastonia Police Department announced that officers arrested 78 alleged shoplifters on 154 total charges during “Operation Naughty List” from November 28 through December 19. In addition to misdemeanor and felony larceny charges, police also made arrests for possession of controlled substances, trespassing, and outstanding warrants.

“As part of this initiative, and as seen in the video, Street Crimes officers operated in an undercover capacity in plain clothes inside local retail stores, blending in with shoppers while working closely with store loss prevention professionals,” the department wrote on social media. “This coordinated approach allowed officers to identify theft in real time, target habitual offenders, and intervene before stolen merchandise left the store.”

Los Angeles police and regional partners say they have dismantled the largest Home Depot theft operation in the company's history, a sprawling retail crime ring that treated big-box aisles like a warehouse to be emptied at will. Investigators report that the crackdown led to 14 arrests and the seizure of roughly $3.7 million in suspected stolen merchandise, a haul that underscores how sophisticated shoplifting schemes have become in Southern California. The case, built over months of surveillance and coordination, offers a rare inside look at how organized crews quietly strip value from a national retailer and, ultimately, from everyday shoppers.

 

[Airstream]

The restaurant business has probably the highest rate of fail of all small businesses. My wife and I seldom go out to eat. It is, in my opinion, a waste of money. The only time we do so is if we are dead dog tired and we just want to chill and not cook, or if we are traveling. And even then, we bought a 12V cooler and take our food with us.

I did see where Olive Garden is experimenting with small portions and smaller prices. Probably a wise thing to do.

 

[Airstream]

Kroger axes 9,000 jobs as $112B theft crisis forces store closures​

Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, moved to close dozens of stores and cut thousands of jobs as rising costs, theft, and shifting consumer behavior strained profitability.

I am surprised that Walmart still has any self-checkouts. When I was a high school and college student I worked for what is now a bought out grocery chain called Red Owl. I nearly went into management with them, but I remember sitting in the office and they said then (in the 1960's 70's) that they loose 5% of the inventory to theft. I can only imagine how bad it is now.