• BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    “couldn’t afford not to?” guarantee the restaurant was losing money by staying open to serve those customers. The hourly wage of the waiters, cooks, dishwashers, everyone except maybe the hostess, is all going to cost more than anything a single table could possibly order

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        1 year ago

        If you think about it, corporate chain restaurants are much less likely to lose money on that than small individual places, everything in a corporate chain is cheap and designed for efficiency. If a small, locally-owned place is gonna stay open an extra hour for one table, they’re practically guaranteed to lose more money than a corporate chain.