In fairness to spartentard, I assume the pics are of the pizza joint he is looking at buying, and not the outfit he is selling. I can't imagine anyone would post those pics of their own kitchen.Quote:
Originally Posted by vegas1369
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In fairness to spartentard, I assume the pics are of the pizza joint he is looking at buying, and not the outfit he is selling. I can't imagine anyone would post those pics of their own kitchen.Quote:
Originally Posted by vegas1369
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Originally Posted by Belly BusterIn fairness to spartentard, I assume the pics are of the pizza joint he is looking at buying, and not the outfit he is selling. I can't imagine anyone would post those pics of their own kitchen.Quote:
Originally Posted by vegas1369
depends on the meat you are selling. Was with the kunt and crew in NY last weekend, first place we ate was a burger place (turns out its a chain, BAreburger) that had cow, elk, duck, turkey, boar, all sorts of meats, all organic, grass fed, all that stuff. I don't see places like them going out of business any time soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
Would have been fun to eat at thesparten's place, but alas, not to be. I do think we found where OSA lives, tho.
The pizza kitchen was for sale. I was looking at it. It's cheap and has infrastructure..
The burger joint is a low end burger joint but I would beef and chicken it up to make it nicer with out micro increasing prices for a while till I built up a following.. forgot to take pics for u guys..
The pizza spot us in Jersey and the burger spot the Bronx..
Just trying to "buy" a "job" so I don't have to ask permission to.smoke a cigarette or have to work to some fools expectations..
Don't truly expect to make a profit regardless of what I get. At least for a while..
If I can earn just a living "score"
If I.can make above medium income (for new York) "bingo!"
I'm also.going to look at some empty stores. But infrastructure and zoneing laws and landlords and permits and construction and interior decorater is intimidating... unless it's a real good rent and a good spot "for me".
Takes time. U really should c as much as possible with agents..
Also need time to Go by friendly restaurants and owners that I'm acquainted with and c if they know anything for sale and even get some advice..
why not start out with a food truck?
less overhead and if it doesn't work it's easier to walk away from
Very difficult in Manhattan and outer Burroughs have trucks but they are either Mexican or Arab...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooh
No place for continental contemporary americana....
And once again to all (not pooh)..THAT WAS A DYING PIZZARIA I LOOKED AT FOR 75k...not mine...
I got an A. But I got a B once and appealed and won.
New York is A/B/C or F for fail...
why not bring the food truck idea to a better location?Quote:
Originally Posted by thespartenVery difficult in Manhattan and outer Burroughs have trucks but they are either Mexican or Arab...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooh
No place for continental contemporary americana....
And once again to all (not pooh)..THAT WAS A DYING PIZZARIA I LOOKED AT FOR 75k...not mine...
I got an A. But I got a B once and appealed and won.
New York is A/B/C or F for fail...
i actually thought of opening a food truck, or a street taco stand
Eating a spaghetti meat sauce right now with a ton of pecorino Romano w with a classic cola..Quote:
Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
I said meat sauce not Bolognese.. no cream in mine..
The spaghetti sauce is simmered for hours with olive oil and Greek oregano salt pepper vine tomatoes AND a string of sausages I put in the bottom of the pot to release great flavor the when the sauce is ready I take out the sausages and mince them then blend the tiny bits in the sauce..
Manhattan is impossible and the outer Burroughs are too ethnic..Quote:
Originally Posted by WillieMcFMLwhy not bring the food truck idea to a better location?Quote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
i actually thought of opening a food truck, or a street taco stand
Did you try around 110th st?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHRi9zQwjG8Quote:
Originally Posted by lewfather
In fairness to me I usually skim past his posts unless there is a picture in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Belly BusterIn fairness to spartentard, I assume the pics are of the pizza joint he is looking at buying, and not the outfit he is selling. I can't imagine anyone would post those pics of their own kitchen.Quote:
Originally Posted by vegas1369
Don't do soul food..Quote:
Originally Posted by lewfather
It's also very Hispanic.
Absolutely won't do ox tails...
Many cheap b & m spots...
Can't do enough volume with the yuppie white liberal crowd in that area..
And whether u believe it or not , there is a double standard in street vending.
The enforcement officers will walk past a dozen Mexicans selling soup out a shopping cart or even cooking corn in a shopping cart.
They will walk past the militant black guy selling African soap and boot leg dvd,s and the white man is the devil books and come to the only white guy with 3 licence and permits and give me thousands of dollars in tickets.. even if I was selling candles from a table they would walk past everyone else and tell me to move it..
It's true!!!!!!
Some staggeringly high percentage of new restaurants (90%?) don't work out -- as in they lose money and close up within 5 years.
You are battling so many forces -- competition, overhead, rent, maintenance, location, promotion, employee expenses, insurance -- that you really have to get lucky (plus know what you're doing) to be successful.
You also need to figure out the right price point (what will sell) rather than what you wish the prices could be.
Also, I've seen your opinions in some of the restaurant customer service threads, where it seems like you take a rather harsh view of complaining customers. This won't work -- at least not at a restaurant that isn't always jam-packed. Driving away just 5 regular customers could be the difference between profiting and losing. Also, customer service at these places tends to follow the cue of the owner. If the owner shows that he wants the customer to be treated well, the employees tend to follow. If the owner has a disdain for the customer, that also shows, and suddenly your place is a ghost town.
I watched a Thai food place near me go out of business because the owners were complete dicks to the customer. I never went there myself (I'm not really much into Thai food), but I had a friend who stopped going there after a confrontation with the owner, and sure enough when I checked Yelp it had tons of similar reports. Despite the food there being very good, and despite being busy and successful at one point, it is now gone.
So there's that factor, too. Running a restaurant means that you have to completely put your ego aside and kiss ass to the customer. If you don't have that in you, you're probably better off working for someone else.
Thesparten ffs man don't do it, you have a much better chance of being the next Art Bell/Alex jones imo.
Get a good camera, get them YT uploads going, monetize your channel, network with other yters call em out/expose em, set up donations to fund your research, call in on Druff, expose those lizard people, UFO's jk don't do lizard people or UFO's, threats of WW3 are hot right now. All the shit you post, get on vid and claim it. Just make sure you believe what you say and it's entertaining. No racist shit tho, it'll ruin your potential. Maybe a lil anti Muslim stuff, that's it.
Yeah you'll get dismissed here, people will roll their eyes. Druff may hang up on you, he's a closet liberal anyway but there's a huge market for GOOD conspira/fear porn. You lean right, dude if you got a good delivery, I can see you carving out a niche on YT.
What does good fear porn look like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd2ixn6B_Rw
This dude predicts earthquakes and volcanoes LOL, he even found some forest fire smoke via satellite but claimed it was a volcano 100 miles from me lol. Of course the govt./ NPS is covering up that eruption. He get's views tho because he's entertaining. Don't forget the entire internet has ADD, so get to the point and be entertaining and nothing else matters. GL ma nigga in whatever you choose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5tsRKK2bFM
Art Bell just retired again. Thesparten Coast to Coast, IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
I could actually see a Sparten YouTube show being successful. Unfortunately, he's technologically illiterate. Also, uh, literally illiterate.
Works for that crazy diner bitch up in Maine though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
The crazy diner bitch in Maine apparently has a wildly popular restaurant, so she can act like a complete cunt and it doesn't affect her bottom line.
If your place is always full, you don't have to worry about losing customers, because other customers will just replace them.
BTW I meant to check out that place in September when my cruise stopped in Portland, Maine, but I never ended up doing so. We only had til 2:30pm in Portland, so that was part of it.
If subway is selling a chicken parm sandwich for 7.49$ no fucken questions asked and extra fake sauce is 50¢
And I'm selling fried to order thick cut chicken parm on a real hero with real parm and real sauce for 10.50¢..mine us actually cheaper and more filling..
If anyone has something to say, just go to subway or a fucken Muslim stand for 6 bucks.. u will get dark meat chicken cooked with corn oil with watered down white sauce..
Il treat a customer who.gets it like a king!! And if somebody bothers me or my waiters over nonsense.. il just throw them out.. good luck finding good food like mine..
Mine is ACTUALLY CHEAPER if u think.about what u get for the price..
U either get it or u don't..
I also charge 35¢ for every outgoing plate so if u want your broccoli and EVERYTHING packed separately. That will be another $1.40..
Just because u buy the most expensive (to make) for only 10$ doesn't mean I owe u any thing...
People really are ridiculous.... u couldn't make that sandwich for 10 bucks if u went to.the supermarket and did it yourself.. so if a customer wants me to suck there dick for actually giving them the best 10$ sandwich u will ever get...FUCK YOU AND GET OUT.
Your food is garbage you serf slob.
TheSparten, you seem like a nice guy but how did you go from dishwasher, to cook, to outright owner in such a short time? Those are huge promotions.
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Originally Posted by thesparten
You seem like a savvy, level-headed businessman
spoken like another famous chefQuote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
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Good luck indeed. Hard to find the good food when it's location is a big secret.Quote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
My father was a dishwasher and brought me in as a kid on the weekends to be busboy..Quote:
Originally Posted by Brittney Griner's Clit
Many of my friends father's had restaurants growing up. I actually went to an expensive private Greek school.. the Greeks in those times were owners and waiters and dishwashers. It was all around me..
Growing up, i worked as a waiter in several places when I was in between jobs..
When I met " the brothers" many years later. It was just luck and a right fit..
They were successful for many years and we're very burnt out. I came in to eat and so the place was unorganized and the brothers just weren't being commanding enough..
When I had worked in restaurants from the late 70,s as a 12 y.o. the place was jammed packed and I actually worked 12 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday. I learned from the original Greeks who were tough and fast..
I learned how to cook from an older Greek who worked on cargo ships as a cook before he came to America.He came from a farming community in Greece.. one tough s.o.b. With handle bar mustache and all. I also grew up with grandma always cooking in the house.
So I'm old school and semi educated and have one foot in the old Greek world one in the American world..
From day one at the current restaurant, I ran into the kitchen to expedite the food as well as maintain my tables as a waiter and run around seating customers in the appropriate tables to maximize space and bused everyone's tables till the place calmed down.. I was a mad man. Just like the old time Greeks used to work.. but I was able to control the customers without them getting mad.
I had the run.of the place and the brothers were always complimenting me and thanking me. Always something extra in the envelope..
I got close to them and helped them in a lot of area's of there cash rich unorganized lives..
I was invited to there family get togethers. When there grand children were baptized, etc etc..
Usually Greeks with money are very scared to show there wealth but they weren't with me and treated me well. even there wives would thank me for taking a load off there backs and force me to send THEM home, BUT I NEVER FORGOTTEN THAT MY VALUE TO THEM IS AS AN EMPLOYEE. a lot of people in that situation start acting lazy or take it for granted.
I also do have a unique sense of humor which they liked.. we would joke around in the restaurant like Greeks did back in the day. We got "close".
I didn't try to show my management skills by firing people or yelling but smiling and joking and actually helping them when they fell behind or came in a little late, as well as encouraging the less experienced who were worrying about losing there job etc etc.. I was also absolutely a tough boss to those that deserved it. I would even yell at the brothers in Greek when they screwed up(half jokingly)
They liked that I didn't kiss there ass couse they had money. They really respected my father and uncle who were working class and very proud. They also respected that I could read and write Greek and that my dishwasher father sent me to a Greek school they were familiar with.
They sat me down and told me they were semi retiring and gave me 10percent, STRAIT UP... kissed me on.both cheeks and said the store is yours. Don't fuck it up..
The reason why I don't reveal the store is because I have revealed a side of me on this site that I'm sure would not be wise to do so. Even though I argue politics with my customers and cal them communists..progressive,s can be real nasty and vindictive...
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Originally Posted by ThreeBetQuote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
You seem like a savvy, level-headed businessman
And then business owners are surprised when they get a 2 star rating on sites like Yelp when you treat the customers like shit. If you are going to take the side of your employees all the time you are going to set yourself up for fail
DO NOT GET TALKED INTO REVEALING THE "STORE". I can almost guarantee that if you do, then you and the business will be messed with in some way.Quote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
10.50 for a chicken parm gtfo with that bs
What's your store's policy on free refills of soda? Assume it's not free --- are they free at any casual dining style CHAIN restaurants in Manhattan?
lol he already posted the phone number to the place a while back. Something about wanting people here to harass his boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by FR1GHT
Does your signature make you feel like a big strong man? From my perspective you are a tiny faggot and the only part of you that is big is that ass gape.Quote:
Originally Posted by SrslySiriuslol he already posted the phone number to the place a while back. Something about wanting people here to harass his boss.Quote:
Originally Posted by FR1GHT
To srsly, that wasn't the number to my store...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brittney Griner's ClitDoes your signature make you feel like a big strong man? From my perspective you are a tiny faggot and the only part of you that is big is that ass gape.Quote:
Originally Posted by SrslySirius
10.50$ for a sandwich is not expensive. 45k rent!!!
Blimpie charges 7.49$ for a 5$ foot long in n.y.c. lol.
Absolutely NO FREE REFILLS.. ITS A 12oz glass and I want to see ice..
A CUP of ice is 75cents and a cups of hot water so the Jews an bring there tea bag is 1.25$
lol at going out to eat and bringing your own tea bag, besides getting to drink free wine from vendors the only joy in owning a restaurant would be getting to throw out horrible customers joe shapiro one of the goats and super tough lawyer at disney used to goto chinois and they would give him the table by the door so he could smoke even though it was banned and some pussy complained and they threw them out of the restaurant
obv joe was classy enough to be like no no its fine ill put it out but still thats got to be one of the perks is tossing fags from your joint
also lol at the midwest idiots who think 10.50 is alot for a chicken parm
When we get tourist,s from middle America, they generally share plates (2.50$ sharing charge) and want tons of water and lemons..
Commercial rAtes on n.y.c water is 1k a month never mind the 20$ for a case of lemons and labor to cut them.
Steak and fish come with a half a lemon tea comes with a lemon wedge..
A lemonade costs 3.25$.. if u want to make lemonade at your table and break my balls for more lemon, water and sugar. Then a side of lemons is 2.50$
If u don't understand that!! Then u! Are the cheapskate and u! Are trying to get over and u!! Are the one being unreasonable..
do you have a fucking sign that attracts the worst and cheapest customers raise your prices or change the name to keep these tards away i eat out like 5 days a week and my gf is a director in the f and b industry i never see shit like that so are you lying or do you just exist in the nexus of worst customers ever
like cmon bro no one is making their own lemonade ate the table
I thought we were on the same page!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by lol wow
Dude, they want to squeeze 5 lemons every time they get there water refilled.. it's generally people from middle America..
And yes the very wealthy upper east side Jews will being there own tea bag!!!!!
Ask one step or druff if they don't know what I'm talking about...
Life gave spartentard a lot of lemons.Quote:
Originally Posted by lol wow