An interesting psychology of restaurant menus is when they use the term ‘house made’ for an item. My assumption then is that all the other items came from the Sysco truck and will be suitably generic.
Likely, yes. Sadly, most restaurants (in the US at least) are shit, and most restaurants are using shortcuts like the "Applebee" model of glorified frozen TV dinners. Especially in wholesale supplier food deserts in the middle of nowhere where the options are fewer.
By contrast, I know of a Turkish-American-owned fast casual restaurant on University Ave in Palo Alto that spends hours every day making almost everything, including hummus and baklava, from scratch. There are only a few complicated things that aren't made from scratch ordered from Turkey from specialty Mediterranean food suppliers. The generic stuff is sourced from Sysco, local butchers, and various other suppliers. It's a lot of time and work to do things right, and it takes pride and cost to make excellent food.
It has to be because apparently you need a huge menu several times what you can prepare fresh in order to be a restaurant. Some of the best restaurants I've ever been to had only a few items on the menu.
At the same time, I've seen chefs take over and declare everything will be made in house, such as sauces and gravies, only to to see regular customers fight back and complain bitterly about the changes - they want the canned slop! Some clientele are just chicken nugget people, through and through.
I think it's a common rule that everyone should know. A specialty restaurant with fewer items is always better. It's cheaper and better for them to run, and you get cheaper and better food
I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time.
There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.
The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.
There are other Victorian fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!
My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over)
The night after taking the injection my sleep is crap, and the heart rate is 5+ higher again
I have lost 20lbs since mid March with no real effort, and we’re about to do some blood tests for specific cholesterol numbers, which was one of the reasons to try this out.
The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real name, then yes”.
If I could have got a steady hand with tweezers, I could easily have been a surgeon. Real patients probably don’t have noses that light up, which reduces distractions too!
In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge. Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some guys doing it in a weekend. Hard because of travel AND opening times of some of the financial centre ones.
Good Times! And of course, no screens and no-one had phones (except in the financial centre and those came with an external battery)
Ha! I went to a British polytechnic. There wasn’t a lot of very practical degrees ( there were some though), but there was a lot of hands on computer work in my Computer and Communications degree
It is strange on a resume listing a university I never technically went to, but now only Wikipedia remembers! And I was there before Thor destroyed it in a movie
