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snoodog  ·  2206 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality

The Prost local pub chain has been around probably for a better part of decade so its not exactly new. Not all the great or German but that's another problem altogether. Cupcakes... also not a new trend probably started 3-5 years ago actually probably started before the pie trend, 20 dollar burger, now the ramen trend, and I think the new hot thing is poke. I dont really understand the hate though, its nice to get some verity and many places dont last more than a couple years.

A lot of these foods are very labor intensive and can really only be done on a large scale, making sausage , croissants, mini pies, ramen are all things best left to someone who has economy of scale. Ive made all these things and its at least a 4 hours of work probably more, but all of them can be fantastic and worthwhile.

Now cupcake, poke and burgers. That stuff is super easy and worth it to DIY. I was able to grind a burger and make hand cut fries in less than an hour the other day and it tasted as good or better as the $20 ones, and poke is my go to meal when i dont feel like cooking literately 10 min of prep.

Espresso is super easy too, but unfortunately requires about $600-700 worth of equipment.