Most restaurants are chains and owned by a small handful of corporations and mega-franchisees. Their shareholders make a lot of money.
Most small businesses (restaurants or otherwise) go broke because they are undercapitalized or otherwise mismanaged.
It takes money to make money.
And If you want to make the jump from wage earner to small business owner, making higher wages helps a lot.
Higher wages means the next generation of small businesses are more successful. More successful small businesses create more competition and keep prices lower for consumers.
Tetrapod animals (those with four limbs) are all thought to be related.
This group includes two main divisions amniotes and non-amniotes. Amniotes produce young in eggs with four distinct layers (one of which is the Amnion) which makes them well-adapted for surviving on land. Frogs and Salamanders are examples of non-amniote tetrapods.
Amniotes are a large group which are divided into groups based on the number of openings in their skulls near the temples. The two surviving groups in today’s animals are synapsid (one pair of openings) which includes all mammals. And diapsids (two openings) which includes all modern reptiles and birds.
The Mesazoic Era (the age of the Dinosaurs) was 250 million years ago (Ma) to 65 Ma.
Dimetrodon was a synapsid that lived about 295 Ma. So it’s not really in the right evolutionary family to be a dinosaur, and it lived long before dinosaurs.
It superficially resembles a large lizard (but in reality it’s a closer relative to mammals than any true dinosaur).
Dark Roasted coffee is the only way Starbucks can be Starbucks.
Lighter-roasted coffee emphasizes origin flavors and i agree with you --generally tastes better and is more interesting.
But you can’t sell coffee like that in tens of thousands of coffee shops and have it remotely consistent.
Coffee growing from the same plot but on one side of a hill will taste different from the other side due to getting different quantities of sunlight. Complex origin flavors will always be the domain of small specialty coffee shops.
Starbucks has McDonalds-like consistency serving millions of customers a day and that’s only because they emphasize the flavors they can get consistently–roast flavors.
TL;DR The bigger the chain, the darker you have to roast. That’s just how coffee works.
To add to all this, if most of your customers are seriously there to taste their flavored syrups and milk of their favorite drink, you wouldn’t want to alter or even ruin that with unexpected, unique coffee flavors.
I have recently played 3 games that have forced a lengthy, unskippable tutorial section that runs for several hours of the game, just to unlock the most basic functions like buying the items, customizing features, multiplayer, and even 2-player split screen modes....
Everyday, as an American (midwest.social)
I'll just leave this here... (startrek.website)
Newsmax Host Ominously Warns ‘You People in Your Cities’ Who Are ‘Pushing the Party That Owns 90% of the Guns’ (www.mediaite.com)
Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before....
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)
The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
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All my real Americans from US State stand up! (lemmy.world)
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also why can’t i crosspost from !lemmyshitpost to here
It’s physically impossible, try it (lemmy.world)
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Tipping culture npcs (lemmy.world)
Chronology (slrpnk.net)
My pick is Rubberband Man by The Spinners. (lemmy.world)
But then the recent passing of Henry Fambrough definitely made me think of it.
Unnamed island (startrek.website)
Its a doggy dog world out there (lemmy.world)
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Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit (www.androidauthority.com)
Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators (www.theverge.com)
Games that require you to unlock the basic functions of the game can suck my nuts.
I have recently played 3 games that have forced a lengthy, unskippable tutorial section that runs for several hours of the game, just to unlock the most basic functions like buying the items, customizing features, multiplayer, and even 2-player split screen modes....
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Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win' (www.pcgamer.com)
Bye biiiittttchhhh (lemmy.world)