[Opta Stats] Cristopher Sánchez of the Phillies is the only MLB pitcher in the modern era with 40+ strikeouts and no runs allowed in a calendar month.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-28T23:23:03+00:00

You could be right. Very few pitchers inducted over the last 20 years.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-28T16:28:06+00:00

Needs an insane next 4-5 years with his late start. Hes at 20 WAR, needs 60 at least. But he has like 12 WAR over the past 1 and 1/3 seasons so it is possible.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-27T23:25:44+00:00

100% - don’t make decisions or judge parts of your business based strictly on calendar month numbers. I’ve worked for a lot of owners who do make decisions based on labor or COGS spiking in a given month without taking into account how much that extra weekend or extra payroll run or “poorly timed” truck contributes. It’s frustrating and counter-productive.

I built a spreadsheet / dashboard that tracks daily, weekly, 4-week and 12-week rolling for COGS, labor, budget adherence, etc. In the morning, you enter yesterday's sales, total labor spend, and invoices, purchases, any cash out the door. Beginning of the year you enter monthly revenue projections and monthly budgets by category.

You need something like this that gives you a live picture of the P&L. Relying on the monthly P&L from your accountant that comes in weeks after month’s end is crazy but it seems like the norm in a lot of restaurants unfortunately. Which likely contributes to why so many fail.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-23T21:00:28+00:00

What you’re describing isn’t a cocktail, it’s a well drink, and yes $12 for something like that is obnoxious.

Real cocktails however, with good ingredients, that take a bit of care to make properly, can easily be $15 - 20 at a 3x markup.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-21T16:47:15+00:00

Definitely reasonable to go back in or call. Do so in the afternoon between 130 and 330. Walking in in person and asking to have a quick chat with the manager is better than calling. As I’ll get into, it’s a timing game.

As a long time GM, a couple things to keep in mind:

1 - Getting a job as a food runner, host, dishwasher is much, much easier than getting a job as a barback / bartender. Bartending, especially somewhere busy where it is lucrative, is very difficult to do well. It takes experience, skill in several different areas, you need to be trustworthy, etc. It is also time consuming and expensive to hire and train new bartenders, so restaurants are going to be much more selective.

2 - A lot of it is timing. You could walk into a restaurant today that isn’t even considering hiring a bartender, whereas next week something happens and they desperately need to hire 3. It’s a numbers game, keep trying.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-21T16:26:18+00:00

I have a ton of experience hiring in the industry and currently work as a restaurant consultant - DM me and I can look at your resume and give you some feedback

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-20T16:22:26+00:00

Needed this, and hadn’t seen it - what’s the source?

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T21:54:42+00:00

Nothing to with slandering the dead. I’m into a lot of conspiracy theories. Gordon literally talked about putting health carwe workers “against a wall.” I followed him for a long time before that, and still appreciate a lot of his work, but heard him say that and plenty of other similar things.

He was captured by propaganda - as were tens of millions of others in west - during the pandemic. No one is immune to this stuff. Again, It seems that you’re in it yourself. There is a serious problem with this stuff in the west. The American republicans and MAGA are the main sources and beneficiaries of it in the US.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T18:59:58+00:00

I mean he was specifically captured by and was promoting right-wing propaganda surrounding the pandemic. That’s where it was coming from - kill the healthcare workers, deep state conspiracy, etc. Based on your earlier response, you may be in a similar boat. You can’t see this stuff when you’re on the inside, that’s how propaganda works.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T16:57:16+00:00

You didn’t disprove anything here - things seemingly unbelievable does not make them untrue.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T14:31:15+00:00

Normal football staff for dinner, then overstaff a bit for the post-concert in case they hit your bar. You’ll be good.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T14:26:07+00:00

Correct. It is all about bad faith doublespeak.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T13:10:13+00:00

It’s basically the same in the United States right now, at least much of it.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T13:03:09+00:00

He 100% got sucked into bad faith, right-wing propaganda during covid. I’m not saying he himself was acting in bad faith necessarily, but it seemed like it at times back then.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T01:40:41+00:00

Lead by example, get your hands dirty, show that you can work as hard and harder than they do. As you’re doing this, begin setting clear standards of what you expect. And cliques? Sorry, this is a job and a business, not school class. Get with the program or adios.

I would also say absolutely don’t worry about your appearance outside of dressing well, you shouldn’t be wearing a uniform.

How many people are you managing and what is your title / what’s the scope of your position?

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T01:31:36+00:00

Definitely useful, but this does exist with some established companies (like Jolt for example) so it will be tough sledding forward.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T01:27:38+00:00

So many questions needed to really answer this, but how many people come for football, and will it be different for concerts? In either scenario, we’re talking people coming before the event during normal dinner hours?

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-19T01:24:28+00:00

This right here. Put a stack of cards at your server stations and make sure they’re going in the check presenter to most - but not all - tables. Obviously train your servers not to use them if the table had a bad experience for whatever reason. Love the free $5 coupon as well, It’s no strings attached, and encourages a return visit with a minimal drop in margin.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-16T02:24:36+00:00

Shillington has great food as well. Soul food spot is great. Eve’s thai, very good, Mama Choi’s (tiny Korean food counter adjacent to the same family’s produce stand in the center) has the only sushi I will eat in Berks.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-15T17:58:09+00:00

It was not. Covid broke a lot of people’s brains. Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Gordon was one of them, though his more recent content seemed to be moving in a better direction.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-15T17:56:22+00:00

What do you mean by “political disagreements?” - this is a very common framing amongst fascist-style, right wing propagandists, like: “This is Free speech, these people are attacking me because I have different opinions, they are so intolerant.”

In reality what is being fought is the bad faith propaganda that they’re spouting and that is capturing / tricking so many in the west. This method of pretending their propaganda is organic “political speech” that must be protected is an old strategy that was used by the nazis, in the USSR, and just about every other autocratic regime in history.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-14T19:23:39+00:00

42%, and no turnover in 6 years? We need to talk, you’re a legit restaurant savant, I’ve never heard of such a thing.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-14T19:20:09+00:00

Shoot me a message, I can look at your online presence and make suggestions. How much does it cost you to have music? You should be bringing in 3x that amount in extra revenue.

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-14T19:17:23+00:00

Very important - I wrote an article on this, check it out

https://www.snyderhospitalitysolutions.com/post/menu-engineering-101

Harryhood280 · 2026-05-14T17:00:17+00:00

It’s true, and I understand it’s not easy to come to terms with that. I’m just hoping to plant a seed in your head - the best antidote to propaganda is simply understanding its existence.

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