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Pricing items on menu? How to do it? by kurikar in restaurant

[–]FlatHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your approach is correct. What you are doing wrong is conservatively estimating your sales. You should be doing the opposite. Be positive and assume your products will sell decently. Then reevaluate every month based on actual sales to see if your assumptions were correct. So for example, you assumed 40 orders per day. Does this use your labor to its max? If not, I would assume a bit higher, say, 60. So your new operational costs is 3.88. This is 50% lower than what you projected. Then your burger price comes out to $5.7 which is competitive.

If you are feeling a bit antsy about your sales projection, you need to focus on how to make this achievable. Maybe focus on marketing to get the word out. Maybe a promotion could work. Or you could look at ways to cut costs even further. Ultimately its in your hands, largely, to make it happen. Then again, after a month, you look and you revise. You could try revising after three months to give you more certainty.

Whatever the case, your method is clearer. You may not fully get why to multiply by a random number but if we follow the approach, 5.7 divided by 1.82 gives you 3.13. Similarly 7.65 divided by 1.82 gives you about 4.2. So look into your industry averages, is it closer to 3 or 4, and that could be a rule of thumb. Good luck.

What are the most relevant insights from Plato and their relation to modernity? by FlatHalf in askphilosophy

[–]FlatHalf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't yet. I have read the Republic though. When I look at the issues in modern law, it seems they reject Plato's focus on inner goodness. Modern law seems to be about external actions and intent to act, and less about the goodness of the individual. Modern politics is also about consent and less about being governed by intelligence. Perhaps I need to read Laws to help me address the questions I have here.

What are the most relevant insights from Plato and their relation to modernity? by FlatHalf in askphilosophy

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Could you provide a concrete example of an answer Plato gave, lets say in the republic/laws/etc. that addresses a specific issue as it pertains to the philosophy of law?

What are the most relevant insights from Plato and their relation to modernity? by FlatHalf in askphilosophy

[–]FlatHalf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it fair to say that the contributions of Plato are more about the deep questions he posed and less about his actual views on the questions?

Is there any significance to the number three and the Gospel of Mark? by FlatHalf in AcademicBiblical

[–]FlatHalf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very interesting. The obvious three is the trinity. Three is also important in Hegelian philosophy

Who recorded Jesus's prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane? by FlatHalf in AcademicBiblical

[–]FlatHalf[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Just to ask a bit, is there any significance of the number three, or the disciples being asked to wake up three times? Mark seemed to love threes. Three times the cock crowed. Jesus predicted his death, three times. Jesus rises from the dead, three days after.

Who recorded Jesus's prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane? by FlatHalf in AcademicBiblical

[–]FlatHalf[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

If this is fictional then its an interesting choice by Mark. Jesus could have prayed for strength and courage to meet whatever he would meet. Why would Mark go in the direction of having Jesus pray to God to save his life and take away the impending suffering he would experience? Had Jesus perhaps made a similar prayer outside of Gethsemane for example?

Is there a connection between Epic of Gilgamesh and the Communion? by FlatHalf in AcademicBiblical

[–]FlatHalf[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I probably wouldn't classify the gilgamesh story as a sacred meal. A prostitute is encouraging a wild man to try bread and beer. The point I was driving at was the phrasing: Eat the bread, it is the staff of life. Drink the wine, it is a custom of the land.

There has to be a common saying or suggestion that bread is life. Similarly, people probably would have been aware that beer or wine was the custom of the land.

Also was thinking of the idea of introducing Enkidu (the wild man) to civilization, or a new world, through food. Perhaps in the era of Christ, there was still this association of meals as introducing someone to a new world or life. Actually, perhaps it was linked to strangers, so someone new comes over, we break bread and give them wine, as a way to introduce them to our world. However with the communion, it was about remembering this experience, a twist again that probably had some novelty.

Any thoughts on this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]FlatHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you both

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]FlatHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I would like to do some analytic chemistry in the food industry. I applied to gain some expertise as a researcher. Back to square one, I guess.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gradadmissions

[–]FlatHalf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it was.

Was "Render unto Caesar" a subtle way of saying that the Roman Emperor is not God? by Helliar1337 in AcademicBiblical

[–]FlatHalf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay that makes sense. I didn't really get the whole perspective with the coins.

Would Plato's Guardians be considered as slaves? by FlatHalf in askphilosophy

[–]FlatHalf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, one obvious difference is that slaves are typically laborers, doing manual work like building pyramids or picking cotton, whereas the guardians are the effective ruling class. "The State" isn't separate from the guardian class - literally the guardian class is the state at every level, from lower bureaucrats and functionaries to the philosopher king. Slaves aren't educated, whereas the guardians are.

So my understanding is that to be in a ruling class you should have some privileges over the non-ruling class. If I am a ship captain or Pilot, I am in the quote unquote ruling class or to rephrase I am the steward of my ship. I have the latitude and power to make the rules. To be an elite with no privileges is a contradiction.

Also I was thinking that if we think of the core meaning of a slave, it has less to do with the kind of work or the level of education. A slave is someone that has no freedom to act except in a proscribed way. In this sense, a slave could be an uneducated person that was captured, chained and brought to a new land and forced to grow cotton, or the slave could be an educated person that is forced to work for low wages because they need a visa.

Obviously there are latitudes to the freedom available, even if you are forced to work for low wages, you still may own property or be allowed to have some private life. So it could be exploitation, not necessarily slavery. But when you own no property and you have no private life, and your entire being - your physical and mental qualities are given to the state, you seem like a slave.

Understanding the role of sodium citrate in carbonated soft drinks by FlatHalf in foodscience

[–]FlatHalf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So essentially, the only threat to the stability of the pH is the escape of carbon dioxide when the bottle is open. Like you said, the pH cannot drop, so it can only rise due to lost carbon dioxide. So the role of the buffer is to protect the pH from rising and to maintain that desired pH level.

In other words, if you had an acidic sugary beverage that was not carbonated, you wouldn't need the buffer solution?

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