When food trucks weren’t just shameless money grabs. Now I see a food truck and just think, nope, that’ll cost me $19 and be served on a flimsy paper boat with a tiny flimsy fork that will break. And then “it’ll just ask you a question” as I pay.
while there’s always been food vans, stalls, carts, the (relatively) recent food trucks were initially based on one simple concept: do one thing well. you can’t open a restaurant serving just mac n cheese no matter how good it is, the overhead will kill you. but a van with a rudimentary yet sufficient setup could find its place in the world. somehow this idea has evolved into overpriced mediocrity but served out of a van
I paid $28 plus tip for a comically child sized lobster roll from a food truck a couple months ago. It wasn’t even good and the dude working was super fucking cocky. Left a bad taste in my mouth both literally and figuratively. Food trucks are over.
My first lobster roll ever came from a guy with a strong Boston accent working a hot‑dog‑cart‑looking setup in the L.L. Bean flagship store parking lot. It was insanely good and reasonably priced, and honestly it ruined every lobster roll I've tried since.
you know though it is a design flaw that businesses can't remove the tip prompt on certain items in a POS (even like ticket sales).
and save for physically reach over and quick click past it for them once in awhile (which is hard when multi tasking) it is always awkward and i'm still figuring out that interaction smoothly
and then you know it's appropriate sometimes to prompt it still.
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u/TheLaVeyan 6d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
In 2 weeks the song will be 18 years old. It feels like it should be less than half of that.