Boston Eater asked local food writers for their "biggest restaurant grievances" of the year just past. Some of the writers responded with complaints about overly loud restaurants, the ubiquity of "small-plate" menus, the cost of going out these days.
Kerry Byrne, who writes about food for the Herald, complained about lazy welfare queens.
The dearth of talent, especially noticeable from a dining perspective in the front of the house. Every chef and restaurateur complains about it and struggles with it. One of the inevitable fallouts of an ever-expanding welfare society in which millions of Americans find it's more profitable to sit at home than it is to work. Restaurateurs are struggling as a result.
H/t K.K.
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Umwut?
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 8:07pm
Umwut?
Seriously!
By Ralph
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 8:12pm
Unbelievable.
Clover Food. Noise levels. Loudspeakers volume turned up high.
By theszak
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 11:38pm
Clover Food have noise levels too loud to hear the order taker, loudspeakers volume turned up high. Noise levels at restaurants are deafening that customers need a recovery period afterward.
???
By Malcolm Tucker
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 8:12pm
[img]http://www.thegifspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/...
I don't get it either.
By dmcboston
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 3:40am
So, just what does Ted Cruz have to do with it? Nothing. Troll bait.
It's not troll bait
By TommyJeff
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 8:37am
It's humor.
Along with nuance, it's something conservatives have trouble with.
Must be my liberal side, then.
By dmcboston
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 10:20am
Must be my liberal side, then.
See your doctor
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 9:19am
there is a test for missing sarcasm.
I did.
By dmcboston
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 10:24am
I actually read some of the reviews. Doctor told me, "Don't read that dreck."
i love it
By Scumquistador
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 9:24am
it has to do with getting a joke- and you not doing so.
lol
By Malcolm Tucker
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 9:45am
Sorry, dude, I wasn't directing my Jack Torrence death glare at Adam for the title; I was directing it at the dumbass complaint from the Herald writer.
Here's one for you:
[img]https://45.media.tumblr.com/bae4f8f44859c4c4651f12...
Animated GIFs
By dmcboston
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 10:44am
Cybah, you have created a Frankenstein...
Actually funny, but my hair's lighter.
Anyway, maybe I'm not a dude. Don't be so cisnormative and heterogenderityness. Please don't make me feel like I need to retreat into my safe space in a quiet (below 85 dB) restaurant.
score
By Malcolm Tucker
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:11am
Difficulty: 4/10
Execution: 1/10
Sorry, no gold for you.
Sorry...
By dmcboston
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 7:46pm
...you're not a judge.
But, as the snarkiest one of them all would say, "Thanks for playing!"
:-O
By TommyJeff
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:27am
We can post animated gifs??!
I had no idea, that's terrific.
People like Kerry Byrne live on a different planet
By BullDetector
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 8:19pm
To you and I. We live in a world where the restaurant scene has never been better. Those restaurants are packed 7 nights a week because nobody cooks any more. (Thank you booming economy) They are staffed by eager students or people looking to make extra money in the front of house, and staffed by Spanish speakers in the back of house, eager to earn a living while learning English proficient enough to be promoted up front.
25-30 years ago those back of house jobs were filled by the Irish. Nobody complained back then, because well the Irish are white. I should know. I am one.
Thankfully people like Kerry Byrne will die off soon enough. Just like my 66 year old friend who sits at home in his white suburb, with his newly gotten guns, complaining about socialism while sucking down every benefit Medicare offers.
Bulldetector, your comment
By Ahab
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 9:32pm
Bulldetector, your comment made me squeal in delight. The restaurant industry is one laden with the college sort just looking for a quick buck and go, the old timers who simply enjoy their tenures, and the folks in the kitchen who like it or not, consists of immigrants. This writer sounds like an awful marriage between Howie Carr and Anthony Bourdain. Hope his next minority server gives him a hockaloogie soup...
Not fair to Bourdain.
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 12:47am
He acknowledges that most of the people cooking your high-end French and luxury-steakhouse and fine Italian food are from Mexico and El Salvador and Colombia, but he's one of those people that sees hard-working immigrants as a source of strength to the restaurant industry and our country, not undesirables who should be deported so they don't tek err jahbs.
I washed dishes for a living once. It's horrible, back-breaking work. Ask a restaurateur how many white Americans they have working at it. I promise you the answer will be, "Most of them quit after one Friday-night shift." Same is true for the people who harvest most of our hand-labor-intensive agricultural products. We're a country with big corporations that love to exploit immigrant labor while supporting politicians who vilify immigrants as a threat. It's a tidy, very profitable bit of naked hypocrisy.
Booming economy! LOL
By nightmoves
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 8:46am
95 million unemployed Americans. US labor force participation rate reached its lowest point in 38 years, with only 62.4 percent of the U.S. population either holding a job or actively seeking one.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/re...
If "nobody cooks anymore" it's because they're stupid, lazy, and awful with money.
Nice "news" source you've got
By MattL
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 8:54am
Nice "news" source you've got there.
The data can be found
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 10:59am
The data can be found elsewhere from official sources. The numbers he points out are basically accurate.
The problem with the "news" sites that
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 1:50pm
right-wingers like to cite is the naked negative slant. Why acknowledge that Obama has added nine million jobs to the economy since W blew it up, when you can cite a statistic that hasn't historically been used for reporting on unemployment? Answer: because it's your preference to cast the President in the worst light possible to advance your political views, which requires you to rely not on fair-minded journalistic sources, but highly biased ones.
Most rational people acknowledge that the recovery is weaker than it could be, hurt by the number of people who have stopped looking. But wage stagnation is a much older problem than the W recession or Obama recovery. It goes back at least 40 years, mostly due to American corporations moving jobs to lower-wage countries, for which both Republicans and Democrats own some responsibility, and the weakening of labor protections, which is largely a Republican-led effort.
I understand your need to believe that things are much worse than they really are. But don't expect people who don't live in the right-wing propaganda bubble to be convinced by those sources.
No one was suggesting wage
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 2:20pm
No one was suggesting wage stagnation wasn't a problem that doesn't go back for decades. The issue is you casting aside an entire report without specifically pointing out where the facts are wrong. The sources are official national census data.
It is very odd that a supposed left leaning person like yourself is dismissing reports that wages are flat as a partisan attack. Really? It's something that everyone could care about without turning it into a partisan argument.
Stop turning everything into a political argument and debate things on the merits of the data.
"to advance your political
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 5:09pm
"to advance your political views, which requires you to rely not on fair-minded journalistic sources, but highly biased ones."
Huh, what? The post you are replying to said nothing of the sort. You are talking to several different people. Don't impose your own prejudice on other people. The comment you are replying to said nothing about politics. You are turning this into a partisan issue for your own reasons.
"It goes back at least 40 years, mostly due to American corporations moving jobs to lower-wage countries, for which both Republicans and Democrats own some responsibility, and the weakening of labor protections, which is largely a Republican-led effort."
You are replying to someone who does not deny the long term wage trends. You are the one turning it into a political debate.
"I understand your need to believe that things are much worse than they really are."
You really need to leave the 495 belt sometime. You are in no position to offer a qualified interpretation of the national state of the economy. Give it a rest.
"But don't expect people who don't live in the right-wing propaganda bubble to be convinced by those sources."
I didn't link to such a source. Once again, the sources are from national census data and other official sources. This has been deliberated and analyzed by people across the entire political spectrum.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/fo...
The person who you are
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 5:11pm
The person who you are replying to is not "sm4269a." What are you even talking about? Where in the post is any of the assertions that you make?
Wage stagnation is something that people of all political persuasion can be concerned about.
First of all, sm4269a and the
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 5:20pm
First of all, sm4269a and the person you replied to are two different people. You really need to look at who you are replying to from now own.
Where in either post are any of the suppositions that you assert evident? Since when is concern over people's wages a right wing issue? That makes no sense at all.
Do not presume to know someone's political leanings because they believe the economic situation of a lot of people is not so great.
Here is a not right wing take on the poor economic recovery:
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/07/437210796/despite-re...
Yes, the middle class has been getting squeezed in this country
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 5:48pm
since the Reagan administration. Let's see: what's the GOP prescription for that? Ah, right: cutting taxes on the wealthiest 1%, which has contributed hugely to our national debt and income inequality. Shame on you if you're still swallowing that load of bollocks.
Also, get yourself a uHub ID if you're so concerned about being properly responded to.
Who said anything about any
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 6:15pm
Who said anything about any political party?
"Also, get yourself a uHub ID if you're so concerned about being properly responded to."
Or, you can just click the reply button under the correct comment.
Getting a uHub ID is also a courtesy to your fellow uHubbers.
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 6:24pm
It helps to figure out over time through posts made from an identifiable persona whether you are worth the trouble to respond to, or are simply another useless nutjob without enough courage in his convictions to put a handle on his opinions.
Here, educate yourself:
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:18am
Here, educate yourself:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080...
Okay... And?
By MattL
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 1:39pm
Okay... And? You gonna link to the Dictionary next?
It's a very important
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 4:57pm
It's a very important distinction in the rapidly changing economy.
Nice "counterpoint" you've got
By nightmoves
Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:11pm
Your bias against facts can't hide your political agenda. If you can get over yourself (doubtful) you'll see how bad the US jobs picture is:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/201...
Unemployed individuals who haven't actively looked for a job in the last four weeks, for any number of reasons, actually slip away from the Labor Department's unemployment calculations. So although the unemployment rate ticked down to a seven-year low of 5.3 percent in June, that number didn't do justice to the 640,000 individuals who exited the labor market last month and the nearly 94 million people who were neither employed nor looking for work.
More alarmingly, the participation rate of so-called prime age workers (those between 25 and 54 years old) has slipped in recent years. This is an age bracket that has mostly completed educational requirements and isn't yet retiring, so prime age down-ticks are difficult to explain.
"We knew that the baby boomers were reaching retirement years and they were going to start leaving," Harry Holzer, an economist and professor at Georgetown University, said on PBS NewsHour last week. "What's been more surprising is that even people, say, below the age of 55, what we call prime-age workers, have also been leaving the labor force. And we don't see any signs that in great numbers they're coming back. And that's a big problem. That's a problem for them in terms of their own earning capacity, but also for the country as well."
Conservatives Are Bad At Math
By BlackKat
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 8:59am
The unemployment rate is 37.6% ?????????????????????????????
Try some real numbers:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
It's 5%. And at most in recent years 10%.
but red states are good at
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 9:21am
Meth.
That's U3 not U6 unemployment
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:33am
That's U3 not U6 unemployment. Also, which numbers in his article weren't "real".
We don't need websites to tell us what the economy is doing
By BullDetector
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 10:59am
We simply have to look out the window and see the number of cranes hovering over building sites, fleets of concrete trucks looking to supplying them, traffic getting worse and worse, rents going through the roof, retail spaces that were empty all filled and best of all, everybody that we know are gainfully employed .
You are one of those people like Kerry Byrne who live on a different planet than the rest of us. Now go vote for trump so we can all have a good laugh when he has a Goldwater type "win".
What's more hilarious is people who think they're getting
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:09am
the straight dope from blatant right-wing propaganda organs like the Conservative News Service. There's reality, and there's Right-Wing Alternate Reality, and nothing pinpoints your location more quickly than citing cockamamie sources like that one.
You don't even understand
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:22am
You don't even understand what you are talking about. The data in that article is basically correct and is sourced from official data. Go ahead, try to refute it. Delineate the places where it's empirically incorrect. If you don't like the website that poster linked to, there's plenty of other places to find the information you apparently know nothing about.
Still waiting
By nightmoves
Mon, 01/04/2016 - 12:13pm
tick tick tick
You didn't even refute what
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:30am
You didn't even refute what he said. The job market recovery is mostly low wage.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/14/1411883/-B...
This is definitely not a conservative website.
That is a very solipsistic
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 11:12am
That is a very solipsistic argument. It is well documented that the standard of living is stagnant for the great majority of people, and Boston does not represent the majority of the country. Many transplants know that very well, which is why they are moving here. The job market data among other things all support this.
May I remind you we are discussing a Boston food critic
By BullDetector
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 12:37pm
From a Boston newspaper.
Discussing the Boston restaurant scene.
On a Boston centric website
How convenient that you only
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 4:56pm
How convenient that you only trudge out that on posts you disagree with rather than the others. The facts don't change. Boston has the 3rd highest income inequality of any major city in the country.
Why don't you get back on track.
By BullDetector
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 6:41pm
A crazy right wing loon is decrying the state of restaurants in Boston and blaming it on welfare queens.
I have no clue wtf point you are trying to make.
You took it off yourself
By anon
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 6:44pm
You took it off yourself track by talking about all the constructions cranes you could see throughout the city or something.
and occupying a federal building
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 01/04/2016 - 3:49pm
in Oregon. Leeches.
and stay off my
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 01/03/2016 - 9:20am
lawn!
That's a lot of ignorance to unpack
By karenz
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 8:21pm
In short, it is false. As recently as April (2015), the Wall Street Journal reported that 56% of those currently receiving welfare assistance are employed:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/13/get-a-job-most-welfare-recipients-already-have-one/
Additionally, as recently as September (2014), the Census reports that the number of households receiving government assistance has not increased:
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/acs/acsbr13-13.pdf
$15/hour would be just a start
By Grant Young
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:38pm
The fact is that businesses have learned to exploit government assistance to poor people to play poverty wages. It's a win-win for the 1%, cheap subsidized labor and political warfare within the working class.
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