How Slim are Restaurant Margins?

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Grubhub went up a ton

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It helps to have billionaires as your customers.

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan give $800,000 to their 8 favorite Bay Area restaurants

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Is Chef Chu’s really that good? I’ve been there a few times and wasn’t that impressed. Maybe everyone hyped it up too much before I went. I’ve had better in NYC and Toronto. Both were among the highest rated by food network. Maybe my perception of what’s good for Chinese food isn’t that accurate.

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It’s meh, honestly. Americanized Chinese food.
You pay premium for clean environment and decor.

But restaurant did well enough to raise the Chu family and gave us Jon Chu

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Chan is a Cantonese. Is chef chu the only Cantonese restaurant in PA?

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I don’t think chef chu is Cantonese is it? Or is it some sort of generic Chinese food that you can’t really pinpoint? Never occurs to me to try it. Probably meh as heck.

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Their picks are questionable. I got food poisoned at Vesta once.

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Chef Chu specializes in Szechuan, Hunan, Beijing and Canton cuisines? That’s like saying a Western chef specializing in French, Italian, Russian and Nordic cuisines. Those four regions pretty much cover the entire China. So Chu specializes in nothing.

BTW nobody in China cares for Hunan cuisine. It’s some make belief American crap. The main four cuisines in China are: Cantonese, Szechuan, Shanghai and Beijing. If a restaurant serves General Tso’s chicken, it’s automatically out. Not authentic. There was a General Tso in China back in the days, but he didn’t cook no chicken! :rage:

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CNBC said that Uber had rejected an all-stock offer. Earlier Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that GrubHub proposed a deal in which its investors would have received 2.15 Uber shares for every share of GrubHub, valuing the company at roughly $6.25 billion.

Uber seems to have some discipline in pursuing the deal. It also seems to think its stock price is undervalued, so an all-stock deal doesn’t pencil out.

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Japanese put crickets into their crackers. Never need to worry about running out of protein.

:cricket:

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my friend works for one of the cricket companies in Austin, I don’t get it but seems to be growing

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Insects are the future!

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Austin seems to have quite a few food startups. Is that true?

Not a :cricket: fan.

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@hanera
How’s Franklin Barbecue? Every food show highlights them.

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Don’t eat barbecue.

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How can live in Texas and not eat BBQ. Without strip clubs and BBQ what else is there? :sunglasses: