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Casual dining is in danger — and millennials are to blame.
Brands such as TGI Fridays, Ruby Tuesday, and Applebee's have faced sales slumps and dozens of restaurant closures, as casual dining chains have struggled to attract customers and grow sales.
"Casual-dining restaurants face a uniquely challenging market today," Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith recently wrote in a letter to shareholders.
According to Smith, these sit-down restaurants' struggles can blamed on the most-frequently besmirched generation: millennials.
"Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants," Smith wrote.
Millenials are too focused on food ordering apps and healthy cuisine.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday June 06 2017, @05:04PM (2 children)
Anarchy is unstable. There have been a few pleasant genuine anarchies studied, but they tended to degrade horribly under stress. The others were more like war-lordism, which was usually even more unpleasant than feudalism, but which, after a period of warfare, tended to evolve into a dictator-ship which tended to evolve into a monarchy. (For all the bad things truly said about feudalism, there are other choices that are worse.)
OTOH, from studying history I've become convinced that nobody can be trusted with much power over other people. One of the advantages of democracy is that it tends to spread the power around so it's less concentrated. This *may* be its only advantage. But it also makes long-term planning quite difficult. It isn't inherently less oppressive. But it's not clear that you can run a dense civilization with fast transport and communications without a large amount of control. It's just not clear that any human, and certainly not any series of humans, and be trusted with that control. Just consider the uses made by police of their control over the cameras that they are often supposed to wear and it becomes evident that they should only be allowed to exert power (as police) when the cameras are on, working, and not covered. Exerting police power in any other circumstance should be considered illegal actions under cloak of law. (I.e., they're wearing a police uniform and fraudulently claiming to be acting as a police officer).
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:27PM (1 child)
You can say that anarchy is not inherently stable, but you cannot say that there is no stable anarchy.
Anarchy does not imply a lack of order; rather, anarchy just implies a lack of coercion.
For instance, to enforce a contract by violent means is still a voluntary interaction if such means are specified in the contract; the parties involved agreed to such violent in advance.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @06:55AM
You are arguing on mathematical precision of logic. No such thing exists when you get down to nitty-gritties. Not even in physics (pun intended :P). The issue of creating a system is not based on logic, it is based on management. Game theory comes close to describing it. For example, this article [jofreeman.com] very successfully describes the problem in creating a structureless community that wants to get anything done.
It is actually where left is a complete failure, and everyone else who has tried to create something different - We have yet to create a system that can get anything done without putting power
And what happens when a party says it didn't? That is, btw, the more if not the most common scenario. This is where book-keeping becomes important, and the next moment you will need someone who cannot be coerced into forging the books.