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>underwhelming pub food entree
>can of coca cola
>tatted hipsters
>35 minute wait
>aioli sauce

That'l be 32 dollars, sir.

>> No.10943130

>>10942919
It's culinary rebellion :D

>> No.10943144

>>10942919
because you live in a corn field

>> No.10943163

>>10942919

>aioli sauce

>> No.10943164

>>10942919
Local breweries usually have one parked out front. Orders usually take about 5-10 mins and are less than $10. My favorite is
>Wokker, Texas Ranger

>> No.10943198

Food trucks are great because now you can get decent food at festivals.

>> No.10943210

We have a couple in my home town and they make bank. Not sure of the appeal, I guess it's a reason to get out of the house and stand around socialize suck a friendly cock, not really my thing admittedly

>> No.10943215

5 for 5$ tacos food trucks are awesome

>> No.10943222

>>10942919
Why do tattoos matter? Tattoos have been around for thousands of years

>> No.10943237

>>10942919
>He doesn't get the $1.50 lengua tacos then go inside the gas station and get a 32 oz of Corona Familiar.

>> No.10943244

>>10943237
you sound like you know your way around some hedge clippers.

>> No.10943257

>>10943237
Why not get the drink before or place your order and then buy the drink real quick?

>> No.10943271

>>10943244
Nothing wrong with an honest days hard work.
>>10943257
I do usually grab the beer after I've placed my order while I wait. Did I have to spell it out? Guess I did.

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10943272

>>10942919
>restaurant serves tacos indoors
"oh wow, what a great taco place"
>exact same tacos served from a truck
"HURR MEME TRUCK BAD FOOD GRR MAD ON INTERNET"

>> No.10943281

>>10942919
Its funny as hell when broke ass flyover complain about food prices. I bet your so fucking poor that you don't even drink at the airport, if you even have one.

>> No.10943313 [DELETED] 

>>10942919
MEMES XDDDD KEK MAYMAY MEME
EVERYTHING IS A MEME LULZZZ KEKISTAN LIBTARD SOY TRUCK
*DABS* FORTNITE XD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RIP XXX

>> No.10943318

>>10943313
this

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>>10943313

>> No.10943339

>>10943210
Highly doubt they make bank. You're limited to relatively few customers a day due to time constraints, and margins aren't that high to begin with. Youll be lucky to pull in mid 5 figures a year from one.

Food trucks are a meme. The real bankers are franchisers, and no one is ever going to franchise food trucks successfully.

>> No.10943350

>>10943339
Yup because franchises only work because they can pull reasonable lines of credit off of the real estate they own and food trucks are just a depreciable hunk of junk.

>> No.10943394

>>10943272
not OP, but i've never had tacos from a truck that taste better than a resturant, except the one resturant that also runs a truck.
>>10943215
$5 for 5 is like 10 years ago when they weren't meme. the only place I can find that now is inside a mexican grocery

>> No.10943425

>>10942919
my biggest gripe with food trucks is the inconsistent menu. small fridge space means they always run out of the popular stuff. also most of the time the menu is listed without prices, so I just walk away from those unless there's absolutely nothing else open.

>> No.10943435

>>10942919
>tatted hipsters
Where I live it’s beaners

>> No.10943439

>>10942919
I don't understand the appeal at all.
My office replaced a mall style food court with this food truck bullshit.
I've gotten delivery ever since because at least then they bring the food to me. Why the fuck would anyone want to have to go outside to some retarded truck to get food and bring it back to their office themselves?

>> No.10943446

>>10943439
bro it's honest food, authentic, fresh

>> No.10943453

>>10943439
>T. 300 lb landwhale

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10943458

>>10943446

You have just activated my almonds!

>> No.10943469

>>10943446
REEEEEE I WANT MY IN-BUILDING NAME BRAND RESTAURANT VENDORS BACK
FUCK YOU FUCKING HIPSTERS, WE USED TO HAVE CHINESE FOOD AND BBQ AND PIZZA AND EVERYTHING JUST WAITING THERE INSIDE THE BUILDING FOR ME TO EAT WHENEVER I FELT LIKE IT, I HATE YOUR STUPID FUCKING TRUCKS

>> No.10943476

>>10943435
Those are usually gang members.
And they make some bomb ass food.

>> No.10943478

>>10943453
Wrong, 6'2 140 lb hungry skelly.
That's why I'm low energy enough to care about having to get up and go outside to use a truck in the first place.
I need to preserve what precious little life energy I have.

>> No.10943479

>>10943469
You are such a fat POS tastelet. Name brand places are ass.

>> No.10943484

>>10943478
Yeah and every Wednesday night I'm a dwarf cleric

>> No.10943485

>>10943479
Name brand places are great.
The business model works so well because despite what everyone claims, we all secretly appreciate the consistency of a standardized franchise operating model.

>> No.10943491

>>10943484
You believe skinny people are mythological creatures?
Let me guess, you're American?

>> No.10943496

>>10943485
Consistency just means it's sub par every time. I appreciate finding places with actually good food.

>> No.10943500

>>10943485

I actually kinda agree with this.

Mom and pops are great, at times. Some are fantastic all the time, but thats a rare gem.

>> No.10943508

Real food trucks are legit.

Foodie trucks are the meme deserved to be mocked. There is no defending the shitty overprice cupcake craze.

>> No.10943521
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10943521

>>10943496
I'd rather have a surefire, guaranteed decent meal than roll the dice on some random local bullshit.
I've had good food at non- name brand places before and then a couple days later when I order it a second time it's garbage, probably because one guy working there is much better at preparing it than the other guy whose shift was going on during the second instance of ordering.
I like Andy Warhol's quote about Coca-Cola RE: This standardization topic:
>What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

>> No.10943546

>>10943521
Coke is for poors tho.

>> No.10943572

>>10943521
>muh revisionism
Budget brands always existed. Maybe not specifically Stars'n'Stripes, Kirkland, or Safeway Select in Andy's time, but there's always a knock-off.

>> No.10943580

>>10943222
and they've always been degenerate

>> No.10943581

>>10943281
T. Voted for Hillary because cares about the majority instead of the rich elite.

>> No.10943598

>>10943572
It hasta be Shasta

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10943604

>>10943572
I have no idea what relationship your post there is supposed to have with what I wrote.
What do budget knockoffs have to do with anything? How is any of what I wrote "revisionism?"
>>10943546
>Coke is for poors tho.
Coke is for everyone, that's what makes it great.
The CEO of the company I work earns about 6 million each year, is in the top 300 Forbes list for CEO compensation, and he drinks Coca-Cola.
The current President of the USA drinks Coca-Cola. So did a lot of the previous ones.
That's really just a silly pleb claim to make.

>> No.10943939

>>10942919
The taco truck near my work isn't like this at all.

>Tacos are $1.25 each for whatever kind of meat you want
>Other meals are all under $6
>Wide selection of American and Mexican sodas or just bottled water
>Guys running the truck hardly speak English, but they're super friendly
>Food is great, never pay more than $9 for lunch
>wait 5-10 minutes at most even when they're really busy

Git gud, faggot.

>> No.10943955

>>10943939
Get good at coincidentally having a truck near your work that you like?

>> No.10943960

>>10943955
Yeah.

>> No.10943969
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10943969

>5 dollars
>2 minutes
>Huge messy plate of chicken rice, onion, and lettuce drenched in white sauce

Can't complain.

>> No.10944090

>>10943198
>going to festivals

>> No.10944101

>>10944090
I for one enjoy supporting local businesses.

>> No.10944115

>>10943969
It sounds like you're describing back alley gay aids sex.

>> No.10944132

>>10944115
and you sound real familiar with it.

>> No.10944181

>>10943939
I have a similar truck nearby. The trick with food trucks is that you need to find one staffed by immigrants rather than tatted hipsters in order to get good and inexpensive food.

>> No.10944193

>>10943604
>He fell for the elites virtue signalling to the (((common man))) (((joe the plumber))) (((I'm with you)))

>> No.10944380

>burger truck on campus
>lines are horrific
>$13 burgers without drink or fries
>mfw they actually stopped giving out napkins
>same truck at concert festival
>$16 burgers
>line is even longer
jesus christ

>> No.10944897

>>10944380

this guy gets it

>> No.10944966

>>10943272
I've traveled all around, and I've unironically never had a good taco. They are inherently shitty meme food. I want to like them, but every time I trick myself into ordering one I'm disappointed

>> No.10945313

>>10944380
hipsters are retarded and those people are exploiting them I dont see any problem with this.

>> No.10945322

>>10942919
My only issue with them is that when they come to my office, they always run out of fucking food. My company haves them come every few weeks and we all have around $8 to spend on them so they are guaranteed a shit load of money that day. They should have an extra person run down to the grocery store that's a block away or fucking bring coolers with extra food but I guess they hate money.

>> No.10945340

>>10943313
Delete this. This is literally why obongofags suck

>> No.10945356

>>10943281
It’s not funny that 90% of America is now dirt poor.

>> No.10945365

>>10945356
where do you get your numbers? Out of your ass?

Did you find my wrist watch?

>> No.10945366

>>10944090
>being an antisocial incel

>> No.10945378
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10945378

>>10945356
Correct, only russia is laughing about that.

>> No.10945380

>>10942919
i actually got a great deal from a food truck once, huge pulled pork burger (i couldn't finish it) and fries for 6.99

>> No.10945434
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10945434

$9 for this. 4.5 stars on yelp

>> No.10945441

>>10942919
What shitty food truck are you going to?

>Go to philadelphia halal truck
>pay $5 or 6 depending on price for a large enough portion of lamb over rice or lamb gyro to fill me up for lunch
>Sauce options your choice for free
>free drink
>ready in less than 5 minutes
Give your business to a better truck or stop complaining anon

>> No.10945468

>>10945434
It looks like your mom secreted blood out of her vagina

>> No.10945518

>>10943425
>Not ordering the food anyway and then saying no thanks when they try to hand you the food and ask for money

>> No.10945540

>>10945434
>too cheap to even give you a bun with the hotdog
HAHAHA

>> No.10945642
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10945642

>>10944193
>I-It's just for publicity
Wrong, pretty much everyone drinks Coke, get over it.

>> No.10945683
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10945683

>>10944193
>>10945642
Also here's the button President Trump has which is literally just there to allow him to summon a butler to bring him more Coca-Cola any time he wants.

>> No.10945707

>>10945434
>Roe v. Wade

>> No.10945890

>>10945683
>CokeButton.png
>pushing it summons a butler
Do you think he could also ask for coffee of the butler? Or a grilled cheese? Is it really just coke?

>> No.10945906

>>10943163
Yes, that's what he said, good job lil buddy.

>> No.10945934

>>10943144
>he thinks flyover states are the most popular place for foodtrucks
nice try California faggot, shouldn't you be checking your social media so you can find where your fave kimchi-wrapped-donut-hamburger-sushi truck is going to show up this week?

>> No.10945948

>>10943394
>implying the 5 for $5 tacos sold from the side of my local Fina gas station aren't the best tacos in the universe
ishygddt

>> No.10945957

>>10944966
>I've been all over...
I guessing you've never even left your zipcode let alone scoured all of Central and Southern America for tacos. Why do you lie about stupid things on the internet?

>> No.10945967

>>10945518
>he doesn't even know that you pay when you order the food, like every other fast food restaurant
just how dumb is this little revenge fantasy of yours?

>> No.10945975

>>10943439
>every person who orders from a food truck does so under these specific circumstances
ask me how I know you're autistic

>> No.10945985

>>10943491
LOL rekt

>> No.10946017

>>10945642
>>10945683
>Look what he tweeted!
>He's one of us!
>MAGA
It's online, must be true right?

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>>10943484
>he's never met an Elven mage before.
Oh I'm laughing, dumbass dwarves

>> No.10946065

>>10943339
As with all things, it depends on the market. There are two snocone trucks in my town. One operates down by the beach/pier, the other operates in the parking lot of a gas station outside of of town. The one at the gas station consistently pulls in more customers and has a longer demand season despite being more expensive and having smaller snocones. Why? The one at the beach has more competition and its customer base only really exists during summer break while the one at the gas station is a block away from a school and has no other competition aside from said gas station.

>> No.10946525

>>10945642
i havent drank coke since i was a teenager except for the rare times ive had rum and coke at a bar where the beer sucks

>> No.10946539

>>10946054
>Can't even into runes

>> No.10946681

It’s le trendy and you are able to post it on 15 (((social medias))) for your fake friends to view

>> No.10946705

>>10944966
Then make some yourself you drooling retard. All thay you need for the ideal taco is a meat, cilantro, onions, and lime in a corn tortilla. Just marinade and cook some cheap steak or something for the meat; you can also just use store-bought tortillas because I imagine that you're a lazy piece of shit, faggot.

>> No.10946736

>>10945906
Its called ayeoli who calls ketchup ketchup sauce or mustard mustard sauce or mayonnaise (aioli) mayonnaise sauce. Why are you even on /ck/ are you trying to educate yourself about food? Because you act like you know shit but you're clearly a condescending little fuck who is wrong.

>> No.10946741

>>10943491
Or you're just a faggot

>> No.10946834
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10946834

>>10942919

depends who runs the truck. there's a big difference between the dollar taco or halal truck run by immigrants and the curry grilled cheese hipster memer truck. the former is usually planted next to a gas station and i eat at them a lot. the latter is fucking gay

>> No.10946839

>>10944090
>being so scared of people and the outdoors you can't enjoy music
Just leave one day

>> No.10946847

>>10942919
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMS

>> No.10946849

>>10946834
Quit forcing this image.

>> No.10946861

>>10946736
It's actually called aioli (with an umlaut over the i but 4chan won't let me out one) dipshit. You're already wrong after the first 3 words of your post

>> No.10947479

>>10942919
>See a cupcake truck
>hmm, I could really go for some red velvet
>cupcake is literally the size of a quarter
>6 dollars
>People are lined the fuck up for 1
wew

>> No.10948553

Food trucks staffed by foreigners who can barely speak English are cheap and great tasting. Avoid any vegan/hipster food truck as you're getting scammed hard.

>> No.10948630

>>10942919
Nigger, even in the overpriced shithole I live in, no one charges that much at a food truck.

You've obviously just gone to one and assumed that's what all foodtrucks are like. Maybe get a therapist to help you with your autism, because you seem to assume that your one individual experience isn't at all the norm. Or even real desu, I'm like...80% sure you've never been to more than 1 foodtruck.

>> No.10948713

>>10948630
>Nigger, even in the overpriced shithole I live in, no one charges that much at a food truck.

It's called exaggeration to make a point, racist.

>> No.10948718

hipster type food trucks used to be good like 8 years ago. kogi truck was the shit. Unfortunately prices went up and quality went down. The new shitty trend are these "market" type places that are full of vendors selling $15 instagram food.

immigrant food trucks are largely mediocre as well. most taco trucks serve food that's just good for sopping up whatever alcohol is in your stomach. literally mcdonalds tier.

>> No.10948729

>>10942919
>That'l be 32 dollars, sir.

Wait what? I thought streetfood is really cheap in USA. All this time I've complained expensive food in here.

T: Finn

>> No.10948742

>>10948729

You spend about 35 to 50 percent, sometimes as high as double, more than you would at a normal restaurant most of the time.

So if it normally costs 6 to 8 dollars for a burger meal, expect to spend 12 to 15 dollars.

It varies wildly. But, most of the time, expect to get ripped off.

>> No.10948757
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10948757

This is approximately 10 dollars, would it be cheap in USA? Yes? No? Also no tips.

>> No.10948763

>>10948757

Hi england!

>> No.10948795

>>10948763
*Finland

>> No.10948797

>>10948713
Sounds like lying to fabricate a narrative.

>> No.10948799

>>10948729
>streetfood is really cheap in USA
it's an expensive kind of food in the US

>> No.10948842

>>10948757
If you know a good local place, that's close to what we'd pay. I've got a Cajun-creole joint in my town where every plate is $7.50, regardless of what you order. Everything is made as a roux in bulk at the start of the day, and served over rice with garlic bread. It sounds like shit, but they're actually really tasty, and you come away with a huge plate of gumbo, red beans & rice with smoked sausage, jambalaya, chicken etouffee, whatever, plus an extra piece of garlic bread and a drink for under $10.

>> No.10948844

>>10948797

Never visit the onion.

>> No.10948852

>>10948842

MY KIND OF JOINT RIGHT THERE!

Alton Brown said it best, anyone can and should eat well for under 10 dollars.

>> No.10948859

>>10945934
>shouldn't you be checking your social media so you can find where your fave kimchi-wrapped...
Do you live in 2009?

>> No.10948873

>>10948852
It's awesome for first dates. Funky atmosphere, lots of color and art on the walls, funky jazz and zydeco for music, cheap as hell, and they have a decent selection of beers, and bread pudding for dessert. Mostly college kids and people around the university go there.

>> No.10949005

>>10948873
I'm not serial dater.

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10949186

>>10945957
>Tacos come from South america

>> No.10949196

>>10944090
settle down incel

>> No.10949334

>>10946861
Back to r e d d it newfag

>> No.10951329

>everyone is talking about fucking tacos

it's about the dumb hipster trucks that are ripping people off

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>>10951329
>ripping people off
What, are you a commie or something? A small business opens and charges what their customers will pay and you say their ripping them off? Tbf, it's pretty obvious you're such a cash poor fuck you salivate as you walk by food trucks and observe the good food, happy faces of friends sharing, rich ethnic food aromas and then bitterly vow to rail against them next time you get on your favorite bavarian lederhosen modeling board.

>> No.10952507

>>10942919
if you want to try your hand at a resturant but you dont have the money to open a real one, a food truck is the way to go
>Mobile
>No rent
and you get yourself to familiarize with all the requirements to manage a restaurant
>Prices
>Labor Cost
>Product Cost
>Permits
>Cleaning
>Dread Inspections
etc etc etc

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10952515

>aoli
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ITS MAYONNAISE
CALL IT MAYONNAISE

>> No.10952943

These threads are just smug greentext responses to someone else's smug greentext response. This entire thread should be gassed.

>> No.10953004

>>10952515
what in the absolute fuck did he mean by this?

>> No.10953037

>>10953004
>fucking retard
did anon not speak slowly enough for you?

>> No.10953046

>>10943469
have a vegan taco and relax bro

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10953059

>>10945366
>>10949196
>le reddit buzzword
Back ya go.

>> No.10953063

>>10953037
>fucking retard
who are you quoting?

>> No.10953094

>>10953063
your mother after she gave birth

>> No.10953099

>>10945934
I absolutely LOOOVE when flyovers think they're human and that their screeching will achieve anything.

>social media
Cute!

>> No.10953102

>>10953094
shall save this wise quip for future use. the point is that aioli is not mayonnaise. aioli is olive oil emulsified with garlic and mayonnaise refers to different types of oils emulsified with egg yolk and added vinegar.

>> No.10953116

>>10953102

Dictionary says;

"Mayonnaise seasoned with garlic."

>> No.10953118

>>10953116
Better throw out that dictionary then.

>> No.10953122

>>10946017
>tweets like this have been consistent for years, positive or negative for ocke

That's a real long ruse.

>> No.10953134

>>10948718
This is the correct answer. It's a meme. But they are convenient at times when out and about drunk as shit.

>> No.10953137

>>10953099
Trying way too hard. Your butthurt is showing.

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10953158

>eating anything that comes out the back of a roach coach staffed by hipsters and/or spics

>> No.10953168

>>10946705
t. butthurt spic

>> No.10953177

I don't trust any of them because I don't know how clean these fucking people are. Always passed a few by downtown but never ate at a food truck stop once in my life.

>> No.10953179

>>10945890
https://gizmodo.com/a-closer-look-at-donald-trump-s-magic-coke-delivery-but-1794739701

>> No.10953182

>>10953177

How often they clean the storage is my problem, also how long the meat sits unrefrigerated or on warmers. Thats how you get the poopies.

>> No.10953189

>>10946017
He insulted Coke, don't know how you got "he's one of us MAGA" out of that.
Also I posted a picture of the Clintons drinking Coke first, so it's not like I'm being partisan about this.
Just trying to show you Warhol's right and both the poorest and wealthiest people from a homeless bum up to the President all drink Coke. It's weird you believe otherwise, Cokes are everywhere.

>> No.10953190

>>10953177
>I don't trust any of them because I don't know how clean these fucking people are.
Doesn't that extend to restaurants as well?

>> No.10953197

>>10953099
*snap*
Yep, another coastie for the cringe compilation.

>> No.10953203

>>10953190
>Over 2,000 different state and local agencies in the U.S. are responsible for inspecting food trucks, according to the Food and Drug Administration. That means safety standards vary widely across the country. Regulators for the most part require mobile food vendors to have hot and cold running water, a refrigerator, and to dispose of waste properly, but some specific rules can differ. In Los Angeles, food trucks must also park within 200 feet of a bathroom where workers can wash their hands. In Southern Nevada, all food handlers must be certified in food safety, but in some cities only part of the staff must be certified. In New York City, restaurants are given letter grades following health inspections, but not food trucks. In L.A., the trucks also get graded.
>Those differences raise red flags for food safety advocates who want to see national standards for how food is handled and stored on trucks. “We really believe that there should be a uniform food safety system for people regardless of where they are,” says Nancy Donley, a spokeswoman for Stop Foodborne Illness, an advocacy group. For example, she says at least one worker on every truck should be trained in food safety methods. Problems can arise: from 1998 to 2010 there were 53 outbreaks of foodborne illnesses from food prepared at a fair, festival or other mobile food service, infecting 1,186 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And those numbers represent just a fraction of cases, experts say.

>> No.10953210

>>10953203
You didn't answer my question, anon.

I'm curious if your irrational fear of muh dirty cooks extends to restaurants or if you've decided to limit yourself to food trucks.

>> No.10953219

>>10953210
I'm not that anon. I don't care about the cleanliness issue, just giving you an answer to your question about it extending to regular restaurants. The answer is it doesn't extend to them because food trucks aren't held to the same inspection standards.

>> No.10953232

>>10953219
I find it curious that you base your assemsent based on the law rather than empirical information.

Next question: do you wash your own hands before you eat? Does that apply to restaurants also, i.e. after you've touched door handles, menus, etc?

Do you ever eat while you touch non-cutlery objects, like a phone, computer, etc?

>> No.10953257

>>10953232
Did you not understand me the last time?
I'm not the anon who cares about cleanliness shit.
I just wanted to show you the inspection standards aren't the same with food trucks so your attempted argument that he should consider food trucks the same as restaurants for cleanliness is wrong.
Also RE: empiricism, finish reading the inspection standards quote, it's not just laws, a foodborne illness advocacy group and the CDC have raised food truck standards as an issue too based on specific preventable outbreak cases.

>> No.10953264

>>10953257
>I'm not the anon who cares about cleanliness shit.
You seem to be replying to me, so I figured you were interested in having a discussion.

>>so your attempted argument that he should consider food trucks the same as restaurants for cleanliness is wrong.
I wasn't making that argument, anon. I need more information before I can make any argument, hence why I'm asking questions rather than making statements.

>> finish reading the inspection standards quote
I read it. A quote alone is worthless because I don't know what conclusions someone might be drawing from it.

>>a foodborne illness advocacy group and the CDC have raised food truck standards as an issue too based on specific preventable outbreak cases.
That's nice. You're doing it wrong though. I'm asking you yes/no questions. You're posting non-answers.

>> No.10953299

>>10953264
>You seem to be replying to me, so I figured you were interested in having a discussion.
You're mixing up two different sorts of interest.
A) I did have an interest in pointing out your question about whether a cleanliness hangup for food trucks also extends to regular restaurants can be answered with "no" because they aren't held to the same inspection standards.
B) I'm not interested in cleanliness in the sense of avoiding foos trucks like the other anon is. I don't use food trucks personally, but my non-use of them has nothing to do with caring about their cleanliness or lack thereof.
Your questions make no sense in response to my post because I've already told you I don't have a concern about cleanliness personally.

>> No.10953339

>>10953299
If you don't care about having a conversation why'd you reply at all?

And more importantly, why'd you answer for another anon when your reasoning is not necessarily the same as his/hers?

>> No.10953363

>>10953339
You're mixing up two different sorts of interest again.
I saw you asking about whether someone caring about the cleanliness of food trucks ought to extend to caring the same way about restaurants and it made me want to point out they aren't held to the same inspection standards.
I don't go around avoiding food because I'm personally worried about cleanliness issues.
Maybe slow down and try to do a better job understanding what's actually being communicated when you read in the future.

>> No.10953367

>>10953363
>You're mixing up two different sorts of interest again.
Nah, I understand what's going on loud and clear.

>>it made me want to point out they aren't held to the same inspection standards.
What's the purpose of you pointing that fact out if you aren't the person voicing the concern? It makes no sense.

>> No.10953392

>>10953367
I had an OCD urge to point out the inspection standards difference, that's really all there is to it.
I'm not anywhere close to a neat freak personally. I care way, way more about getting people like you to stop conflating different things than I do about the cleanliness of food vendors.

>> No.10953411

>>10953392
>I had an OCD urge to point out the inspection standards difference, that's really all there is to it.
Gotcha, that was all you had to say bro.

>> I care way, way more about getting people like you to stop conflating different things..
Then don't jump into someone else's discussion, or point out your reasoning in advance.

>> No.10953438

>>10953411
I did point it out though, at least five separate times. Not sure why you think it would have worked better for you if I pointed it out yet another time in the quote post on top of all that. It was a long quote, I don't know that the character limit would allow that.

>> No.10953441

>>10953438
>at least five separate times.
OCD was the magic word. you didn't say that until recently.

>> No.10953650

>>10944090
>missing out on all the festival qts

>> No.10953697

>>10943313
This isn't satire, this is pure unadulterated retardation

>> No.10953735

>>10943222
Tattoos are for attention whores

>> No.10953736

Because Gordon Ramsay started investing in them on his gay show now erryone thinks they are good.

>> No.10953771

>>10953441
So it's not enough that I told you I wasn't that anon, at least five separate times, because unless someone tells you they have an OCD urge to clarify something your default behavior is to ignore their repeated mention of the fact they're not that first anon and continue trying to treat them like they are that first anon?
What the fuck?

>> No.10953916

>be me yesterday
>go to some free event
>"anon can you please get me a lemonade"
>stand in line for 30 minutes
>watch as idiot suburban high school kid can barely handle the task of handing out lemonades every 5 minutes
>"that'll be $5 sir, cash only"

Fuck food trucks. Fuck lemonade trucks twice

>> No.10955983

>>10953916

lobster kimchi sushi burritos bro!

16 bucks but soooooooooo worth it!

>> No.10955999

>>10942919
>35 minute wait
>That'l be 32 dollars, sir.
Is this really what being a coastie is like?

>> No.10956004

>>10942919
>>can of coca cola
There is a reason food trucks usually park near breweries

>> No.10956059

>>10942919
Because only dumb hipsters want to eat food from a filthy truck while standing up outside during the summer heat.

>> No.10956077

>>10956059
you don't have to tip at food trucks so they are better than restaurants

>> No.10956080

>>10956077
really? food trucks here i come. i am so fucking SICK of tipping

>> No.10956093

>>10956077
Oh, well then, serve up them Armenian tacos, Caleb!

>> No.10956099

>>10942919
$32??? For that kinda shit? NOPENOPENOPE...

>> No.10956111

>>10956093
authentic mexican food trucks are incredibly common, they are probably the single most popular type of food truck

>> No.10956146

>>10956077
>you don't have to tip at food trucks
Is this legit?
If so you just posted the first valid reason to prefer food trucks in this thread.
I hate the concept of tips so much I would actually be willing to pay twice as much for food from a place that promised me tips weren't expected.
Was so disappointed when Uber went back on their anti-tip culture and put a tip section on their app.

>> No.10956161

>>10956146
Wow, then a fast-casual like Panera, Noodles n' Company, or Chipolte must just really blow your mind! Boob.

>> No.10956173

>>10956146
>Is this legit?
You should never tip at a counter service restaurant or food truck

>> No.10956193

>>10956173
Except for Cickfila, because they bring the food to your table and get you stuff like sauces and napkins.

>> No.10956194

>>10956161
Chipotle is just fast food.
I don't know what those other two are, but they don't sound too appetizing (a bread store and a noodle store?).

>> No.10956203

>>10944090
This

The redditors replying to you need to be strung up a tree, music "festivals" like Coachella are little more than a breeding ground for diseases and a place to dull your mind with drugs, alcohol and garbage music to temposrily forget how empty and meaningless your life really is

>> No.10956207

>>10956194
Fast casual, maybe try google. It's not like I made up the term.

>> No.10956213

>>10956193
No you don't, dumbass. You don't tip at Culver's either.

>> No.10956215

>>10956193
Southerners tip at chikfila? They don't really have them up by me so I don't know how they work

>> No.10956239

>>10945441
Stop giving sand niggers your money

>> No.10956245

>>10956207
I don't see how calling it "fast casual" makes its food any better than it is in reality.
I've eaten at Chipotle, it's not something I consider higher quality than other fast food places.

>> No.10956248

>>10943272
>go to a restaurant for tacos
>get to sit down
>get 3-4 of them, water and maybe free chips and salsa
>12 dollars
vs
>stand in line for food truck
>have to deal with that shit motor sounds
>get halfway made food that is greasy and grimy
>water is at least 1 dollar if not 2
>no extras outside the "street" tacos you get
>have to go find somewhere to sit and eat it
>15 dollars

>> No.10956257

>>10956245
A sit-down with counter service, and Chipolte being better than Taco Bell? Fucking Christ, stop being such a pedantic faggot.

>> No.10956268

>>10956245
>I've eaten at Chipotle, it's not something I consider higher quality than other fast food places.
Its pretty fucking obviously higher quality than Taco Bell, and Burger King. Plus it is more expensive, and most importantly it is marketed as fast casual

Its a pretty well established term, and a booming segment of the food economy in the last decade, relative to classic fast food, and boomer sit down chains which are mostly losing marketshare

>> No.10956277

>>10956248
how under-served is your coastie neighborhood that the food trucks have long lines?

Also, taco trucks are notoriously cheap, if you are paying more than $2.50 per taco, I don't know what the fuck you are doing

>> No.10956291

>>10949186
Ugh that comic strip
>ess jay dubba yoos r de real racisms
Go back to /r/gamergate

>> No.10956292

>>10956277
Arizona, we have some food trucks that come by our business complex on fridays. Pretty much always overpriced as fuck. Had some come by 12 dollars for a chicken sandwhich, 1 side of coleslaw beans or fries. Could have gone to chic-fil-a

>> No.10956304

>>10956292
Generally Food Trucks are more expensive than fast food but dramatically better quality with more interesting menus, and considerably less expensive than sit down restaurants with similar quality but smaller menus

>> No.10956308
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10956308

The only food truck I've seen here was for fries.
Deluxe-styled fries for a good price too.

>Ten oz of steakfries
>Six oz of skirt steak
>Grilled onions and bell pepper
>Two slices of provolone melted over everything
>Side of guac and sour cream
>$4

>Ten oz steak fries
>Four oz marinara sauce
>Grilled minced onions
>Mozzarella cheese melted over everything
>Pepperoni
>Bacon
>Bell Pepper
>$3.50

Pretty fast too. I never had to wait more than eight minutes for it.

>> No.10956323

>>10956291
They are though. The welfare state is the new plantation.

>> No.10956333

>>10956323
Lol you are a clueless idiot

>> No.10956340

>>10956257
>>10956268
I definitely like Taco Bell better than Chipotle.
It's not even close.
What is the appeal to Chipotle for you? I think they stuff the portions out a bit heavier and also the flavors are less in your face than Taco Bell, both of which I see as bad things. I always feel like throwing out half of my food when I've tried Chipotle in the past.

>> No.10956357

>>10956340
You may like it better, but the quality is noticeably different

Most importantly they serve rather different niches, they aren't even directly competing with each other

>> No.10956359

>>10956333
Thanks, m8.

>> No.10956362

>>10956357
>Most importantly they serve rather different niches, they aren't even directly competing with each other
Really? I would've just counted both of them as "Mexican food."

>> No.10956364

>>10942919
$32? Are you on drugs? Did you find a caviar truck or something?

>> No.10956368

>>10948757
Place I used to live by had that AND 6 chicken wings for like 8.50

shit was cash

>> No.10956378

>>10943313
This is exactly how I see those posters.

>> No.10956384

>>10956357
>Most importantly they serve rather different niches, they aren't even directly competing with each other
https://www.marketing91.com/top-chipotle-competitors/
>9) Taco Bell
And pretty much all their other competitors were identified as fast food companies too.

>> No.10956385

>>10956362
I mean, just because you're a complete fucking retard doesn't mean that everyone else sees the world in retard-tinted glasses. Get over yourself.

>> No.10956397

>>10956385
Not just my retardation:
>>10956384
Pretty sure the more mainstream view is that they're in competition with Taco Bell.
Do you have evidence for your contrarian view?

>> No.10956402

>>10956362
Taco Bell's primary competition is McDonalds and Burger King, not mexican restaurants

Chipotle's primary competition is other fast casual places like Noodles or Culvers, and probably actual mexican food trucks if they happen to be in the same area, but not really sit down mexican places

>> No.10956412

>>10956384
Its almost as though if you focus on the largest national chains they compete with it'll be biased toward the largest possible chains rather than the patchwork of more regional fast casual chains they more directly compete with

Thats just a really shitty metric and not really useful

>> No.10956426

>>10956384
This article is super fucking silly and you should feel bad for posting it. Obviously their number one competitor is Qdoba, which serves almost exactly the same menu in almost exactly the same way

>> No.10956434

>>10956397
Fuck off retard. I like taco bell as much as the next guy, but it's as close as you can get to dogfood without being condemned by the FDA.

>> No.10956504

>>10943222
I must have read tattered hipster 100 times before this. I kept imagining a bucket hat and long sleeve/ripped jean cunnolingus

>> No.10956511

>>10956426
>serves almost exactly the same menu in almost exactly the same way
That doesn't make it a top competitor, that makes it similar.
Those are two different concepts. You can have more competition from less similar businesses and less competition from more similar businesses.
>>10956412
It's very useful if you want to see what their actual top competitors are.
That's what the topic of competitors is about for a business.
You seem more interested in similarity than in which businesses are actually more of a competition issue for them.
If you're operating a business you'll want to look at what's impacting the money you're making through competition, not which businesses are most similar to yours in the products they offer.

>> No.10956516

>>10956402
>Taco Bell's primary competition is McDonalds and Burger King
>Chipotle's primary competition
Is also McDonalds and Burger King.
Chipotle's revenue is a lot more impacted by those two than by the Noodles or Culvers.

>> No.10956529

>>10956511
>That doesn't make it a top competitor, that makes it similar.
Thats what makes a competitor, people selling similar stuff in similar places. The things people are most likely to be choosing between. If you want fast casual mexicanish food, you are directly choosing between Chipotle and Qdoba, you almost certainly were never even considering Taco Bell, and vice versa if you want Taco Bell you probably never were considering a more expensive fast casual place

>> No.10956531

>>10956511
Yeah, we can compare McDonald's to Five Guys too, it would still be retarded.

>> No.10956533

>>10956511
>It's very useful if you want to see what their actual top competitors are.
Except that is is a poorly designed metric, so it is inherently not useful. Just a garbage article. Just look at their methodology and try and justify that

>> No.10956541

>>10956516
You realize it is industry insiders an marketers who have created concepts like fast casual as opposed to fast food. Its not just something we made up in this thread. Insiders classify these types of restaurants differently because it is a useful concept regardless of whether you like it

>> No.10956545

>>10956529
>Thats what makes a competitor, people selling similar stuff in similar places.
No, what makes it a competitor is if they're taking business from the same demographics your business is making money from.
Selling similar products is definitely something a major competitor will do often enough, but it's not the main thing you're interested in if you're trying to do a competitive analysis.
You're interested in who's impacting your revenue the most.
McDonalds and Burger King might not be similar in your mind to Chipotle, but they're certainly a lot more relevant to Chipotle in terms of actual financial impact.

>> No.10956546

>>10956533
Show me an alternative competitive analysis online for Chipotle that *doesn't* mention McDonalds or Taco Bell.

>> No.10956549

>>10956541
Useful as in useful for predicting results or useful as in useful for marketing?
Because those are two very different things.

>> No.10956552

>>10956546
It would be more apt to compare it with Moe's or Qdoba, or other fast-casual restaurants. You're being stupid.

>> No.10956555

>>10956545
Except these places have very different demographics. Millennials love fast casual and do not like fast food nearly as much as previous generations (though less true of Taco Bell than the rest of the segment). meanwhile Boomers fucking love fast food. Likewise there is also an socioeconomic divide where inner city and rural people both prefer fast food while urban whites prefer fast casual

Do you honestly believe that most people choosing to go to Chipotle are even considering something like Burger King? These are wildly different demographics

>> No.10956558

>>10956552
No, I explained a pretty straightforward and valid rationale for why similarity is incidental at best and the important issue for competition is who's impacting your revenue the most.
You're just getting upset instead of coming up with a decent argument and/or evidence to dispute that.

>> No.10956559

get mediterranean and thai food all the time from food trucks. usually around 7 dollars for something tasty that I know will fill me up

>> No.10956561

>>10956546
Again, looking at a national analysis it is going to dramatically favor whatever things have the most locations, so McDonalds can both be their single largest competitor (though they obviously are not) and be much less significant a competitor than the fast casual segment, which is much more fragmented and regional

>> No.10956564

>>10956555
Like I said, show me an alternative competitive analysis for Chipotle that *doesn't* mention McDonalds or Taco Bell.
Everything I've read so far is saying the opposite of what you're claiming: These demographics are not at all "wildly different."

>> No.10956565

>>10956558
>is who's impacting your revenue the most
How is McDonalds impacting Chipotle's revenue more than what other fast casual restaurants are doing?

>> No.10956570

>>10956558
Because it's literal apples to oranges. May as well throw Applebees in the mix as well, because after all, they're all national chains that serve food relatively quickly. Yutz.

>> No.10956572

>>10956564
>alternative competitive analysis
The "analysis" you posted begins: "The craze for fast food has always been overwhelming among citizens of different cities and towns all over the world"
This is not a legitimate source. Its quite literally just a list of the largest fast food places and has basically nothing to do with Chipotle at all

>> No.10956584

>>10956561
>largest
>less significant
How are you defining "significant" here exactly if not in terms of impact to revenue?
The thing that makes McDonalds "dramatically favored" here is exactly that: impact to revenue.
The only factor I'm seeing argued for with wanting to call more similar restaurants "top competitors" is that they're more similar, which again, I don't think makes any sense as the thing to go after if you want to find out who your top competitors are. Who cares if business A is selling a 99% identical product / experience as your business with minimal impact to your revenue if business B is selling a much less similar product / experience but actually taking away large amounts of revenue you would have made otherwise?

>> No.10956601

>>10956572
>This is not a legitimate source.
OK, show me a legitimate source for Chipotle competitive analysis then.
One that doesn't mention McDonalds or Taco Bell.

>> No.10956608

>>10956584
>How are you defining "significant" here exactly if not in terms of impact to revenue?
We are talking about segments, not specific institutions. Chipotle is more impacted by fast casual restaurants than fast food restaurants. McDonalds has more locations than any fast casual restaurant, but that doesn't mean Chipotle is a fast food place rather than a fast casual place

Remember, your original argument was that fast casual isn't a thing because you like Taco Bell better than Chipotle

>The thing that makes McDonalds "dramatically favored" here is exactly that: impact to revenue
Where in the article did you possibly come to this conclusion. The article doesn't even imply this

>wanting to call more similar restaurants "top competitors" is that they're more similar
Thats precisely what competition is. Its like how Netflix's biggest competition is Hulu, Amazon and HBO, because those are similar directly competing services, and not movie theaters which have a related product but are much less directly competing even if they are bigger.
By your logic you would have to argue that Chipotle's biggest competitor is Walmart because they sell more food than anyone else in America and therefore impacting their revenue the most

>> No.10956610

>>10956601
Of what? Being fast-casual? Try a fucking dictionary. What are you even trying to prove? That Taco bell and Qdoba are the same type of restaurant just because they have tacos? I guess here's a link without McDonald's or Chipolte, but is that what you're asking? How to use Google to prove that it exists?
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/06/09/moes-southwest-grill-most-popular-mexican-chain/85640598/
You're a fucking retard, my main man.

>> No.10956614

>>10956584
>99% identical product / experience as your business with minimal impact to your revenue if business
If there are two very similar businesses next door to each other they surely have larger impact's on eachother's bottom line than some other marginally related but bigger business down the road

>> No.10956617

>>10956570
Applebees would be perfectly legitimate to include in a competitive analysis for Chipotle.
If Applesbees is a top source of impact to their revenue.
Similarity really isn't the issue. Businesses are about money, similarity is incidental when you're trying to figure out competition you should bother paying attention to.
A not so similar business pulling away tons of paying customers is a lot more worth looking at and doing something about than an extremely similar business that's pulling away hardly any of your potential paying customers.

>> No.10956630

>>10956614
>If there are two very similar businesses next door to each other they surely have larger impact's on eachother's bottom line than some other marginally related but bigger business down the road
It depends how literal you mean everything in that sentence to be taken, but if we're still talking about Chipotle and Noodles vs. Chipotle and McDonalds, do you have evidence the former is actually more of an issue than the latter in terms of financial impact?
I'm open to being proven wrong on that specific point, but I've yet to see any reason to believe that's the case here.

>> No.10956635

>>10956617
>A not so similar business pulling away tons of paying customers
But non-similar businesses are generally not who you are competing with. Your top competitors are the places people are choosing within your niche, not businesses in different niches

>> No.10956644

>>10956610
We're talking about which is more of a competitor, Taco Bell or Qdoba.
The original point of contention was the claim Taco Bell isn't even competing with Chipotle, and I'm not seeing anything to believe that's anywhere close to true.
Your response and link don't really cover anything about that issue.

>> No.10956660

>>10956630
I was referring to Chipotle and Qdoba, but its true of Noodles to a lesser extent

If you have Taco bell, McDonalds, Qdoba, and Chipotle on the same block the people going to McDonalds/Taco Bell probably never even considered going to a nicer more expensive restaurant, meanwhile the people going to Chipotle/Qdoba probably never considered going to a lowly fast food place. This is because of factors like cost, quality, and marketing (for which demographics really come into play)

Now consider the situation in which the Qdoba closes, who benefits most from that? Pretty obviously Chipotle because their primary competitor is gone, McDonalds and TB probably barely even notice the difference, likewise the situation in which McDonalds closes has a minimal effect on the fast casual places because they are not direct competition

>> No.10956662

>>10956635
>generally not
That's what the "incidental" part was about.
Similarity comes up incidentally when you're looking at top competitors.
As in it shouldn't be the thing you're looking for, though it will likely be associated a decent amount of the time with the thing you should be looking for.
The McDonalds thing is a good example of why this distinction matters.
McDonalds isn't as similar to Chipotle as other restaurants might be, but that doesn't mean it isn't a top competitor.
If you limit yourself to looking for just the most similar businesses you'll probably miss less similar businesses that would've been more worth you're time to consider in dealing with competition as an issue because they're actually impacting your revenue more.

>> No.10956663

>>10956644
Taco Bell is fast food. Chipolte is fast casual. Applebees is a restaurant with wait staff. Fucking mopeds to motorcars, m8.

>> No.10956672

>>10956662
Again, do not confuse specific restaurants with classes of restaurants. Even if McDonalds were its largest single competitor it would be much less significant than the competition from within Chipotle's class of restaurants

>> No.10956681

>>10956660
>the people going to McDonalds/Taco Bell probably never even considered going to a nicer more expensive restaurant
That sounds like a reasonable thing to believe, but is there actually evidence this scenario is happening often enough to make McDonalds and Taco Bell not count as top competitors for Chipotle?
It sounds like the sort of thing that sounds right anecdotally but isn't necessarily as big of a factor as you'd think for the behavior of large numbers of customers in reality.

>> No.10956689

>>10956681
Is there evidence for your scenario? I haven't conducted expensive market research, I don't have the data in front of me but these claims seem much more reasonable and logical than yours

>> No.10956691

>>10956672
How are you defining "significant?"
I would define it in the same way as "largest."
Why should a smaller competitor be considered more significant? I wouldn't give a smaller competitor a higher weighting to make up for their small size. I would care about the actual competitive impact. Whether it has a greater impact because it's a really large chain in general or not doesn't change the fact it still has a greater impact.

>> No.10956703

>>10956691
>Why should a smaller competitor be considered more significant
It shouldn't, but I am talking about classes. Chipotle is directly competing with fast casual places. The biggest fast food places are much larger than the biggest fast casual places as there are way fewer fast food places each having many more locations, while fast casual chains are mostly regional

Looking at cherry picked individual franchises isn't useful when describing what types of restaurants are a place's primary competition. No one fast casual place needs to be more important than McDonalds for fast casual places as a class to be more significant than fast food places

>> No.10956719

>>10956689
I see McDonalds and Taco Bell as major competitors in multiple different independent write-ups on Chipotle's business. That would go against your "people who are going to McDonalds or Taco Bell aren't even considering expensive restaurants" guess.
http://www.valueline.com/Stocks/Highlights/SWOT_Analysis__Chipotle_Mexican_Grill,_Inc_.aspx#.W1aVUJNOnIU
>Primary competitors include Taco Bell, which is owned by Yum! Brands (YUM), McDonald’s, and Panera Bread (PNRA)
I'm not really arguing for a scenario by pointing this out, I'm asking for evidence for your scenario because it doesn't seem to jive with the repeated mentions of these fast food joints as top competitors for Chipotle from unrelated sources.

>> No.10956721

>>10956691
Again, by this logic, their largest competitor is Walmart, and thats just not what people are talking about when they speak of competition

>> No.10956729

>>10956719
How about the very fact that industry people define it as fast casual?

>> No.10956730

>>10956703
>No one fast casual place needs to be more important than McDonalds for fast casual places as a class to be more significant than fast food places
Oh, OK. So you're thinking if you combine every single restaurant chain like Noodles or Panera, then that combination of chains would be more of an impact than McDonalds or Taco Bell?
Maybe, but I haven't seen evidence for that.

>> No.10956734

>>10956721
No, I don't think Walmart is a top competitor.
You need to have some evidence the business is impacting your revenue in a major way for it to count as a top competitor.
Lots of people spend money at Walmart, but are lots of people spending money at Walmart who would have spent money at Chipotle otherwise?
I don't think that's the case.

>> No.10956742

>>10956729
I touched on that already:
>>10956549
Is "fast casual" actually something important in terms of *predictive power*, or is it important in terms of marketing?
You might want to use the label to help with marketing, but that doesn't mean the label is very predictive / indicative of where most of the competition really is.
In fact you might go out of your way to come up with a marketing label like that specifically to try to move away from the bulk of where your real competition is i.e. you might try to deal with the competition from McDonalds and Taco Bell by trying to distance yourself from them as a different sort of dining experience. But this wouldn't mean McDonalds and Taco Bell aren't top competitors. Just the opposite, it would mean they are exactly that and this is your way of trying to deal with them.

>> No.10956744

>>10956730
More specifically, if you count all similar restaurants they are more important than not similar restaurants like McDonalds and Taco Bell (but not only one specifically, fast food collectively)

>> No.10956755

>>10956742
Were are you getting any of this? of fucking course its more important from both a marketing and predictive point of view.

The marketing aspect is important in defining your class, but it is the class that is predictive

Ask a guy owning a Chipotle franchise what is he more worried about. A nearby Qdoba opening or a nearby Burger King opening

>> No.10956760

>>10956742
if you are trying to distance yourself from a type of place, they are not your direct competition

>> No.10956779

>>10956755
>Ask a guy owning a Chipotle franchise what is he more worried about. A nearby Qdoba opening or a nearby Burger King opening
What a guy is worried about isn't very good evidence for what the guy should be worried about.
Business management and business owners have baseless assumptions and gut feeling heuristics all the time.
>Were are you getting any of this?
I didn't claim it wasn't important for predictive power, I asked if you had evidence it was important in a predictive sense. And you apparently don't have that evidence.
I don't see any reason to make the assumption what you're speculating about actually is how things are, and I could easily imagine the opposite being true instead.

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>>10956203

>> No.10956790

>>10956779
>What a guy is worried about isn't very good evidence for what the guy should be worried about.
Yeah, surely a guy on 4chan knows better than people in the industry

>> No.10956797

>>10956760
>if you are trying to distance yourself from a type of place, they are not your direct competition
That's just semantics with the added modifier "direct."
Even in that semantics quibble that would just mean at best they still *were* your direct competitor before you distanced yourself from them.
And also this would depend on the assumption they not only tried to distance themselves with a label like "fast casual" but that they actually succeeded at distancing themselves.
Just because you try to make it seem like you're offering a different product or service in some way doesn't mean you actually are doing that and it doesn't mean customers will actually respond as though you're doing that.

>> No.10956806

>>10956797
Its not symantics, in a broader sense you are competing with anything that people do that costs money. Thats not what we are talking about here. We are talking about the place people are directly choosing to spend money at instead of at your place, that last, most direct level of decision making

>> No.10956810

>>10956790
Less "better" and more like "equally without persuasive power on its own."
Have you entered the workforce yet? The basis for decision making isn't some rigorous, iron-clad numbers driven machine most of the time, even with very large businesses.

>> No.10956822

>>10956806
Well in that sense McDonalds is a direct competitor of Chipotle then even if Chipotle calls itself "fast casual."
People definitely do directly choose to spend money at McDonalds instead of at Chipotle, and from everything I've read so far, they do this a lot more often than they do this for most (if not all) other restaurants compared to Chipotle.

>> No.10956833

>>10952515
Aioli and mayo are actually two different things but made very similar. Mayo is an emulsion of egg yolks and oil. Aioli is basically the same thing but with garlic.

>> No.10956838

>>10956833
Aioli is garlic mayo

>> No.10958465

>>10953197
>>10953137

t. white incel who's flyover community has been destroyed by opioids and a refusal to attend college

can't wait for the last factories to head over to karachi and ho chi minh city

>> No.10959415

>>10943604
>Roka-Rola
What did they mean by this

>> No.10959428

>>10942919
Don't forget the tip. 25% is now standard or you will be internet shamed.

>> No.10959429

>>10959415
a bang's side project

>> No.10960149
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>that 24 year old boomer who eats from food trucks

>> No.10960171

>32 dollars
Where do you fucks even live
I spent $20 at a food truck in LA and got two meals worth of food from it

>> No.10960748

>>10944181

so. much. this.

>> No.10960934

>>10942919
Ate this. Was good

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>>10960934
Whoops. This

>> No.10960944

>>10960939
Costco dogs are a $1.50 with a coke

>> No.10960972

>he doesn't bring his own food to work

what the fuck?

>> No.10961074

>>10944101
>supporting muslim hating xenophobes

>> No.10961167

>>10960972
I can do that once maybe.
But indefinitely every single workday?
Get the fuck out of here, I don't have that kind of energy. I can barely handle just the getting dressed and showing up to work parts.

>> No.10961181

>>10943164
This is the most Reddit post I've ever seen

>> No.10961593

>>10960944
Bar S dogs are 99 cents for 8

>> No.10962128

>>10956173
you never tip because youre a special type of asshole who never worked in food service

>> No.10962145

>>10942919
The only good ones are those that primarily cater to blue collar workers.

>> No.10962167

>>10956784
He's not wrong.

>> No.10962547

>>10942919
man i still remeber the qt food truck girl she started to remeber i liked this chicken wrap thing and started flirting with me

>> No.10962619

>>10961167
>obese

>> No.10962896

>>10962619
Nope, underweight.
Obese people would have an excess of energy stored up by defintion.

>> No.10963287

>>10943394
There are still $1 tacos that are good. But you are correct, ever since hipsters started memeing with the food truck bullshit the prices have gone up. If you are in LA then tacos el pecas are a dollar (small taco) and a taco cart on 26 th ave and humbolt also sell $1 tacos.

>> No.10963328

>>10962547
in your dreams soyboy

>> No.10963498

>>10962167
>every festival is coachella

>> No.10963915

>>10943210
My town started doing at least one food truck night a month. They shut down US 1 and set them up right in the middle of town making traffic hell. Its a god damn high way, move that shit somewhere else you fuck tards.
Anyways yeah, I went once and its just a bunch of jerks standing around, pointless shit.

>> No.10963936

>>10956203
>I'm such a contrarian that I hate literally everything.

>> No.10964019

>>10956734
You don't seem to be grasping the other anon's poin here.

Mcdonalds isn't a competitor for chipotle because people who were thinking of going to chipotle were probably looking to get some mexican food - something which MCDs doesnt provide but other mexican restaurants do - hence competition.

Unless ofcourse you're looking at a person who just wants food and doesnt care what it is - or where to get it - in which case then yes - walmart or mcdonalds would probably be their biggest competitor.
wa la

>> No.10964043

>>10956203
don't go to shit festivals then. Go to ones that play the music you like. Like metal fests

>> No.10964102

>>10964019
No if you're looking for something fast, cheap, and convenient you're in competition. You're not going to take time for a sit down Mexican restaurant if you aren't in the mood or have the time for all that.

>> No.10964135

>>10964102
way to just restate the same thing he did in the last line of his post. also,
>You're not going to take time for a sit down Mexican restaurant if you aren't in the mood or have the time for all that
chipotle does not take significantly longer to order food at, given that they're just assembling your stuff from a line of ingredients right in front of you.

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>>10942919
>tfw you will never eat the perfect Cubano

why live

>> No.10964180

>>10964019
>Mcdonalds isn't a competitor for chipotle.
Your personal modified definition of what counts as a competitor isn't the one basically every other resource for competitive analysis available on the public internet subscribes to. If you look around I don't think you can even find one that doesn't either mention McDonalds or Taco Bell as major competitors, and I don't think you can find one that *does* mention Walmart.
You're overrating the importance of "fast casual" as a marketing label (it really isn't that big of a difference from regular fast food and it's not like Chipotle food is anywhere close to a prohibitively expensive luxury item) and underrating the impact a place like McDonalds has on Chipotle's revenue.
Walmart probably isn't impacting Chipotle as much as either McDonalds or other "fast casual" labeled restaurants.
>Unless ofcourse you're looking at a person who just wants food and doesnt care what it is
I don't think most people start out with some conviction that they're going to go eat at a "fast casual" Mexican restaurant. When it comes to fast food you're probably just thinking you'll get something easy and then you'll proceed to go back and forth between the different options for fast food in general until you land on a place you think you want, at which point you'll drive over and either get the food there or else change your mind based on something else you see or think of.
I don't think many people change their mind and decide to go eat at Walmart. I don't even know what you would get there for food. Are you talking about some in-store McDonalds? Then that'd be McDonalds really, not Walmart, unless you somehow decided not to go to Chipotle, went to Walmart, and then purchased something from Walmart in place of fast food, like groceries I guess?
When you're looking for fast food though you'd probably care most about convenience and not needing to go through a full blown grocery shopping and subsequent food preparation process.

>> No.10964284

>>10952515
>>10953004
>>10956833
>>10956838
Real Aioli has no dairy in it while mayo has eggs.

>> No.10964291

>>10964102
>No if you're looking for something fast, cheap, and convenient you're in competition.
By that logic a streetwalking hooker down the road is competition to chipotle
>>10964180
First of all thats not my "personal modified definition" - that is literally what competition is

Sure i suppose there is a small percentage of people who would go to McD instead of chipotle because they dont give a fuck where they eat and just want to stuff their faces as fast as possible while spending little because Mcds happens to be 5 feet closer to their location.
Otherwise you dont seem to grasp basic concepts like what competition is - the way you seem to portray it makes it seem that
a valid "competitor" to chipotle can be a mugger standing close to the restaurant because he takes the customer's money before chipotle does

>> No.10964310

>>10948859
>letting food memes dictate your life
we've got a nu-age hipster here

>> No.10964335

>>10964284
>eggs are dairy
did i read that right or did you mean something else

>> No.10964784

>>10964291
Like I said, go look up competitor analysis for Chipotle. You will find repeated independent mentions of McDonalds and Taco Bell, 0 mentions of your Walmart and mugger strawmen.

>> No.10964981

>>10964784
Retards can analyze whatever they want doesn't make them right - you can analyze whether HP or IBM are competitors to mcdonalds if you wish - doesn't mean you're not wasting your time

>> No.10965214

>>10953264
>>10953339
>>10953367
>>10953411
>>10953771
autism

>> No.10966204

>>10956203
LOL tfw i don't know if this is a shitpost

>> No.10966246

>>10964981
That's where the repeated independent part comes into play.
You could try to argue one of them is just retarded, but that's the consensus they're all independently coming up with.
Like I said, feel free to try finding evidence to the contrary, but you won't.

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>>10953099
>I absolutely LOOOVE when flyovers think they're human and that their screeching will achieve anything
>that their screeching will achieve anything
>achieve anything

>> No.10967292

Texas isn't flyover

>> No.10967295

>>10967292
This. Mexicans tend to walk.

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>>10943484
I’m a different dude.
I’m 6 foot 3 and 125 pounds.

>reply to this post with “thanks mr. skeletal” to receive good calcium & strong bones

>> No.10968142

>>10967292
It is unless you're into sniffing cow braps and shit.

>> No.10968267

>>10967674
I'm jealous. Thanks mr skeltal.

>> No.10968271

>>10967674
>being 6'3 and unable to press 500lbs over your head

pathetic

>> No.10968285

>>10967674
how is this image depressing and comfy at the same time?

>> No.10968461

>>10960944
Thats a sausage

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>>10967295

As a mexican, this made me spit out my tequila and kek in mexican.

>> No.10968769

Why do poor people get so mad at the free market?

>> No.10968867

>>10943339
Ever seen bob's burger? They have an episode specifically about this. They hit the festival circuits.

>> No.10969116

>>10964284
Ha! I get it!

>> No.10969394

>>10945934
>that 30 year old boomer flyover
>those damn city folk.... ill tell you what *sip*

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>>10969394

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>>10969430
>t. never left his cultureless home town
enjoying your coke heads and old people boomer?