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Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

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Twitch Boy said:
If it's McDonald's breakfast I'll give them a pass. They do that (mostly) right.
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When McD's started their all-day breakfast menu, same-store sales went up something like 5% from the prior year. This is significant because McD's has been hurting somewhat for the past 10 years or so.

My bet is that if they expanded their all-day breakfast menu to include more items, and consolidated much of their lunch/dinner menu to a core set of goods, they'd see their profits start to go back up. Add to that, which will never happen, if they made an effort to increase the quality of their food, it could only work to the better for them.
 
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St. Clown said:
When McD's started their all-day breakfast menu, same-store sales went up something like 5% from the prior year. This is significant because McD's has been hurting somewhat for the past 10 years or so.

My bet is that if they expanded their all-day breakfast menu to include more items, and consolidated much of their lunch/dinner menu to a core set of goods, they'd see their profits start to go back up. Add to that, which will never happen, if they made an effort to increase the quality of their food, it could only work to the better for them.
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And for the love of God drop the blatant pandering to Millennials in the marketing. That makes us all #smh. Poop emoji.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I purposely left out Utah, because that is just a whole 'nother level right there.
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I don't know if this is still the situation in Kansas, but when I visited there years ago, you could not go to a tavern or a bar to buy a drink. They had package stores where you purchased it for "home consumption" but you could not just buy a drink or a beer on its own. Consequently, people would establish "social clubs," where it was legal to purchase alcohol as long as you were a member. Those social clubs sold a lot of one-day memberships! ;)
 
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FreshFish said:
I don't know if this is still the situation in Kansas, but when I visited there years ago, you could not go to a tavern or a bar to buy a drink. They had package stores where you purchased it for "home consumption" but you could not just buy a drink or a beer on its own. Consequently, people would establish "social clubs," where it was legal to purchase alcohol as long as you were a member. Those social clubs sold a lot of one-day memberships! ;)
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My buddy who used to live in UT said it was much the same there. The locals serving in restaurants would look at first-time tourists asking for a beer or glass of wine with their meals in horror, running to get a manager.
 
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St. Clown said:
My buddy who used to live in UT said it was much the same there. The locals serving in restaurants would look at first-time tourists asking for a beer or glass of wine with their meals in horror, running to get a manager.
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IIRC, most UT restaurants only get a license to serve wine and 4% beer. There is a type of license that allows a full bar, but it is very expensive and they're limited in quantity. Have to go to a state store to get anything harder than that. Also, you are required to order a food item to drink, which is always a surprise for first-time visitors.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
IIRC, most UT restaurants only get a license to serve wine and 4% beer. There is a type of license that allows a full bar, but it is very expensive and they're limited in quantity. Have to go to a state store to get anything harder than that. Also, you are required to order a food item to drink, which is always a surprise for first-time visitors.
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Hmmm, pretty sure I had a strong Wasatch Brewing beer, without food when I was there a few years ago.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Hmmm, pretty sure I had a strong Wasatch Brewing beer, without food when I was there a few years ago.
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It wouldn't surprise me if there were some variations by county now. Salt Lake is fairly liberal these days, and obviously Park City.
 
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Don't confuse being "not ultra conservative" with being fairly liberal.
 
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Trying to wind down after late night soccer is stupid hard.

The adrenaline needs to subside and since I can't eat before the games, I have to stuff face after. it's 12:30 am and I'm finally getting ready for bed.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Trying to wind down after late night soccer is stupid hard.

The adrenaline needs to subside and since I can't eat before the games, I have to stuff face after. it's 12:30 am and I'm finally getting ready for bed.
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When I played beer league hockey and the games were late at night, some starting at 10:55PM ("[X] league games all start before 11:00PM!"), I'd take a half-day PTO just for that reason.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
IIRC, most UT restaurants only get a license to serve wine and 4% beer. There is a type of license that allows a full bar, but it is very expensive and they're limited in quantity. Have to go to a state store to get anything harder than that. Also, you are required to order a food item to drink, which is always a surprise for first-time visitors.
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Utah relaxed their liquor laws at the insistence of Jon Huntsman, because he knew that Salt Lake City was missing out on conventions because of their liquor laws.


Draft beers are still limited to relatively low alcohol content (4% by volume or 3.2% by weight -- which is where "3.2 state" comes from) but you can get strong stuff in a bottle -- I've seen bottles with 8-10% for sure ("heavy" beer). They also did away with the Utah "Private Club". It used to be restaurants could only serve beer and wine. To get hard stuff you had to go to a private club. College students had books full of club membership cards.

You can get a beer without food in some restaurants (beer only restaurants), or in any "club". Basically a "dining club" is a restaurant that is allowed to serve alcohol without a food order.

They still have some weird laws. And if you go to a bar all the liquor bottles have special spouts -- they slide into a dispenser that measures a specific amount as it pours into the glass and shuts it off after the proper amount is poured.
 
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BassAle said:
Utah relaxed their liquor laws at the insistence of Jon Huntsman, because he knew that Salt Lake City was missing out on conventions because of their liquor laws.


Draft beers are still limited to relatively low alcohol content (4% by volume or 3.2% by weight -- which is where "3.2 state" comes from) but you can get strong stuff in a bottle -- I've seen bottles with 8-10% for sure ("heavy" beer). They also did away with the Utah "Private Club". It used to be restaurants could only serve beer and wine. To get hard stuff you had to go to a private club. College students had books full of club membership cards.

You can get a beer without food in some restaurants (beer only restaurants), or in any "club". Basically a "dining club" is a restaurant that is allowed to serve alcohol without a food order.

They still have some weird laws. And if you go to a bar all the liquor bottles have special spouts -- they slide into a dispenser that measures a specific amount as it pours into the glass and shuts it off after the proper amount is poured.
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Small government at work
 
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Tried to pour lentils into a measuring cup, missed, and they wound up on the floor.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
https://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...t-saving-time-americas-greatest-shame/354753/

Proof that even the Atlantic has stupid writers. This is a dumb article. Not just because the title is cringe-worthy, but is it really that big of an imposition to set your clocks twice a year? Hell, most of them do it automatically now.
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I had to set FOUR clocks yesterday! Four! Enough is enough!


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The issue isn't setting the clocks for me, or most people, I'd wager. It's the messing around with our sleep schedules - snow plows being irrelevant except for this year.
 
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