im so fucking pissed i loved her restaurant >:( angery family operated. she would give me extra helpings all the time and demanded i eat more while giving me free shit and we talked about china and stuff. she said she had no issues with payments. AND THEY REPLACED HER WITH NOTHING. its just fucking empty now! has been for a while!

FUCK LANDLORDS. they dont even care about profit, only misery! they take anything good and innocent out of this world and turn it all into empty sadness! one of the best fucking restaurants ive ever eaten at too, and it was popular, even! she put so much love into each dish, legitimately a master in her craft

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I was just about to write up a landlord story of my own, so I’ll hitch onto your existing post, kristina.

    Every summer I make it a point to get the hell out of the city and spend some time approximately in the middle of nowhere. I like to find a village where I can rent out a backyard guest house (aka a big shed with a kitchen), and just disconnect for a week.

    Twice now I’ve ended up in the same small town, and rented out the same couple’s trailer next to their irrigation reservoir lakefront guest house. Lovely people. They have a one-eyed dog, and a three-legged dog. The husband taught me how to temporarily patch my tire with rubber cement and a knife so I could drive back home for a real fix. But they aren’t the point of the story.

    I’d like to talk about the town’s burger shop. It’s one of those local chains that you only find in just one state. Think of it as being like In-N-Out Burger, circa 1995. One of the locations is right near my place back in the city, too. Naturally, there is a huge price difference between the two locations.

    Before I go further, I want you to guess which burger costs more: the restaurant in the city that’s a central shipping hub for the region, or the restaurant in a town with less than 1500 people? Obviously it’s the rural one, right?

    Nope. The first time I visited there was five or six years ago, and I was shocked to find that their menu was cheaper by more than a third. Same food, same distributors, same recipes—way cheaper. A burger that cost me $6 in the city cost me $3.90 in the middle of nowhere. How’d that happen? Wild.

    I was there again this year and, obviously, prices have gone up thanks to massive corporate greed mysterious inflation. But by far less than I expected. The burger on the menu in rural nowhere has now increased to a staggering… $4.25. The one in the city is now $9. I asked the owner about it, and he very flatly told me why he can charge so little:

    He owns the building the restaurant is in. His dad built it 40 years ago. He’s the only location that isn’t a renter. He’s making the same profit all the other owners are, but he doesn’t have to pay any rent.

    Fuck landlords. They make my treats 'spensive.

    kitty-cri-potato