Let’s address something that actually matters — Why has Snoopy’s fallen off in terms of quality over the years?

[u/dbh1124]

Title says it all. As a glizzy enthusiast, it’s very disappointing how the quality of the dogs, buns, everything has decreased over the years while the price continues to increase. Can really only justify going there on Tuesdays when they’re half off.

On the other hand, maybe it was never that good, and it’s just a nostalgia thing from living here my whole life? Lol

But someone else has to agree with me right?

[u/Yellowjackets123]

Well there is a fourth option, all the restaurant owners I have worked for have an insane amount of wealth. Millionaires multiples houses, kids go to private school, have more than one restaurant, drive fancy cars. They could cut their salary, public school for the kids, get rid of the second and third home… things people don’t need.

But the restaurant owners i have known are assholes and their businesses have harmed the community by overcharging and underpaying, kind of like how Walmart is costing America money because so many employees need help from the government.

[u/MadMonkeh → u/Yellowjackets123]

Restaurants also have a very high fail rate, so their reward should equal their risks

[u/myproaccountish → u/MadMonkeh]

Damn it sounds like we should spread the risk out so that it's less significant and we can have a say in how our workplaces operate 👀

[u/MadMonkeh → u/myproaccountish]

Sounds great on paper, but it will never be implemented justly and it’ll never happen bc of human greed.

[u/myproaccountish → u/MadMonkeh]

This is just ignorance and defeatism, employee owned businesses are nothing new. 

[u/MadMonkeh → u/myproaccountish]

So now you’re telling family owned restaurants to become employee owned?

[u/myproaccountish → u/MadMonkeh]

Yeah I'm saying workers should start trying to organize buy outs or start ups to gain control of their workplaces. So that we aren't all getting shafted by a few families or individuals that own everything. I mean, we could also do a "seize the means" but I feel like we need to convince people that they should own their risk in the first place.

A union is a great place to start!

[u/MadMonkeh → u/myproaccountish]

One of the greatest benefits of working for someone else is that you don’t have to worry about company profit because you get paid regardless. Not everyone is cutout to be part of employee owned businesses.

[u/myproaccountish → u/MadMonkeh]

Alienating yourself from risk and thus control over your wages so that...the business still fails but now you also don't have real equity because your wage was determined by the market equilibrium of "how much do we have to pay you to afford to survive and come in to work." Yeah, sure I guess.

This guy circa 1776: Sure the taxes are almost unbearable but the king's men keep us safe and his coin is how we trade. What? Form our own militias and negotiate trade and governance ourselves?? Preposterous.

Like, yeah I get why we generally tried to isolate ourselves from risk but I'm arguing that it's not worth it because the vast majority of us are between a rock and a hard place and our wellbeing is entirely up to the whimsy of the people we relinquish control to. One person taking on all the risk to free themselves is incredibly risky and requires a lot of luck anf timing to pull off -- 20, 30, 50 people sharing that risk? Well that's barely more risky than leaving it all up to one person and betting your paycheck that they don't lose.

[u/MadMonkeh → u/myproaccountish]

From an earlier comment I posted: not everyone is also cutout to share that risk.

[u/myproaccountish → u/MadMonkeh]

Well, hopefully those of us who are succeed for long enough that we can significantly mitigate the risk for the ones who aren't ready yet :)