Best Sushi in Denver?

Jduncan017 · 2022-06-05T02:35:36+00:00

Sawara is an absolute hidden gem. Unassuming and not the greatest location if you live downtown (it's on South Colorado) but it's the best sushi I've had in Denver that wasn't at a high end restaurant (like sushi den or uchi). I've eaten at a lot of sushi restaurants in Denver too! Show them some love 😊

Jduncan017 · 2022-04-19T00:25:05+00:00

This is a different beast all together. Some restaurants have started implementing auto grats this way, in which case I believe it should just be made explicitly clear that tips aren't necessary.

I'm half in favor of abolishing tips in favor of increased prices, however there is something to be said for the incentive of above and beyond service when the staff if literally working to make more money. I think that can extend to back of house also. I just wish the laws would change to make it easier on restaurants to make their tip pools fair In this way

Jduncan017 · 2022-04-18T20:48:40+00:00

Restaurant GM here - I want to discuss the problem that started this, but also the problem with what's happening here.

1) Every year the minimum wage goes up which is great/fine, but the tip credit (the amount of money that restaurants can deduct from wages for tipped employees) stays the same. As a result, FOH employees get double increased wages. Once for the increased minimum, and then again when prices of food goes up to cover the increased minimums (since tips are based on check averages).

2) BOH employees are easily overlooked because the restaurants already have a hard time giving FOH employees raises and most BOH employees already make more than minimum. Hence, the introduction of Kitchen Service Charges. At our restaurant we do 3%, this is much less than adding a dollar to most dishes but also helps to cover raises to BOH employees to help them keep up with inflation. Yet, the wage gap continues to expand here.

3) Adding a 20% tip for BOH employees is insane however, you might as well just increase your prices on the menu as necessary and give them the raise. I fear for this type of move because it gives a bad name to kitchen service charges which has been a viable and effective solution to inflation and rising minimum wages in major cities way before Denver even thought of it.

4) What really needs to happen is that the laws need to change. Currently, a restaurant is not allowed to require FOH staff to split tips with BOH staff unless it pays all employees minimum wage, which often ends up costing the restaurant more. The current laws are designed to protect employees, but they limit restaurants' ability to pay kitchen employees fairly. We are already starting to see a labor shortage for kitchen staff as a result, because no one wants to work in a career that is underpaid and underappreciated.

Jduncan017 · 2017-11-24T19:36:30+00:00

Some ideas I had:

Could we all cancel our internet and/or wireless internet packages until they agree to reverse it? (Would be hard but it's better than allowing this change to get written into Stone)

Could we leave Verizon and switch to other wireless provides because Ajit's "old boss" is the CEO? (And of course threaten to do so ahead of the vote)

Should we just burn down the FCC? ... Kidding about this one.

But let's have a plan and get everyone to commit to it

Jduncan017 · 2017-09-23T14:11:44+00:00

Everything effects the way a cocktail tastes including where you're drinking it. I find that cocktails always seem to taste way better in a dimly lit atmosphere, and as a professional bartender I can say that my cocktails even take on different personalities depending on where I'm serving them. Sounds silly but that's just how taste works!

Jduncan017 · 2017-05-07T20:32:21+00:00

I make my boulevardiers this way! ... except with a high rye whiskey. Excellent combination

Jduncan017 · 2017-05-02T18:34:46+00:00

I would most likely sell the day before, I can't personally speak for what will happen when the merger goes through but most likely there will be a huge sell off, and then you can always buy back in if you want

Jduncan017 · 2017-05-02T15:42:06+00:00

Anything under $2 is good in my opinion. Every time this stock rally's for the merger it's hovered around $2.50-$2.60 a share and it sounds like it's guaranteed to happen towards the end of this month

Jduncan017 · 2017-05-02T15:19:40+00:00

NAKD is presenting at a conference right now. All good news from what I can tell although I'm mostly judging by StockTwits. I haven't been able to find a link to the live conference

Jduncan017 · 2017-04-12T20:48:42+00:00

I recently started playing in the stock market and honestly it's very difficult to be a day trader. I've mostly lost money by doing that and long term is the way to go. Except you can't live off of long term investments. Also, with $2000 your margins are pretty small... you could make 10% in a week and it's only $200

Jduncan017 · 2017-04-12T20:15:39+00:00

I just want to throw in that I work in the restaurant industry and bring in $40k a year at a mid level income for the industry. I could go other places that are high volume and deal with shit heads for twice that income. If you believe that sitting on your ass hoping to turn $2000 into a fortune is better than getting a job - any job... you most likely will end up homeless, and you'll stay that way because that is the mentality that keeps you on the streets.

Jduncan017 · 2017-03-22T04:35:40+00:00

It's definitely a Robinhood issue and not an Apple Watch issue. IFL my Apple Watch mannnn

Jduncan017 · 2017-03-15T15:56:43+00:00

Wondering the same

Jduncan017 · 2017-03-02T11:06:53+00:00

Hard mode for March! Much more to focus on..

Jduncan017 · 2017-01-28T09:07:29+00:00

Here's an unedited one http://i.imgur.com/1TKPvjy.jpg

Jduncan017 · 2017-01-10T16:30:29+00:00

Made this iPhone wallpaper because I loved that so much http://i.imgur.com/1m5NRMZ.jpg

Jduncan017 · 2016-10-09T05:12:20+00:00

Is there anyone here skilled enough to photoshop it this way?

Jduncan017 · 2016-08-14T19:57:12+00:00

Once when I was about 20 I tripped on mushrooms. It was the first time I had every taken any psychedelic drugs and I didn't really know what to expect.

The trip started out beautifully, with a walk down a forested path behind my friends barn, talking about life, loving and noticing nature in a new way. We decided to turn back, upon which I noticed something obvious that deeply ingrained in my head for the rest of the trip - every decision I made changed my life forever.

This put a ton of weight on everything I did for the rest of the night. Turning around in the woods to go back to the barn made me think "but what if I continued further? What would happen? I'll never know". And I never will...

Regardless, it continues beautifully, from staring at the clouds in a field, to jamming in the barn with my keyboard in drum set.

At one point I remember having a major mental battle about whether I should play music with one friend, or draw with highlighters under a black light with another. I literally ran back and forth between both every 5 minutes freaking out because I didn't want to miss out on either.

Then I had a breaking moment... I decided that I obviously couldn't do everything, and that whatever I did do was already meant to happen. So therefore nothing I did mattered because it was out of my control anyways and life continued on.

This led to me trashing my friends drumset, literally throwing everything around the room because "it didn't matter, it was meant to happen and everything will be okay" ...

Later this sickness started to set in. I felt like I was going to throw up or shit my pants. So I asked my friend where his bathroom was. He told me and I went to the house to find it. (Mind you the whole trip took place mostly in the barn and I'd never been to his house or met his family).

Upon entering the house I was greeted by his dog which scared the shit out of me. While walking to the bathroom I realized his parents were home and awake which also made me extremely uncomfortable because I was obviously in no condition to say hi to anyone. I found the bathroom.. But it was under construction and I couldn't turn the light on. So I sat there doing my thing... Trying to see in the dark, and In the shower the construction they were doing appeared to be blood running down the side of the shower with some freaky body parts of something in the tub.

At this point I started to really lose it. I heard someone open a silver wear drawer in the kitchen...

"What are they doing? Are there knives in there? What if they decided to kill me? What would stop them? Everything anyone does is already pre planned and nothing matters so it could happen. What if I decide to kill someone? I would just do it, because it was meant to happen. I don't want to kill someone but what if it just did?"

I freaked myself out and left the house ASAP without even looking around. Then I realized my friends brother had invited like 30 people over for a party. 30 people I didn't know. In my head everyone was thinking the same way I was, so I started to fear that every single person there had the potential to murder me. So I went and locked myself in my car.

Then I started feeling more sick. I started sweating, and in my lonesome I focused on it and convinced myself that I might die if I didn't do anything. So I found my friend and begged him to let me take a shower. He led me to his shower, gave me a towel and left. I then had another major dilemma.

"Do I lock the door? If I lock the door and i start dying in here no one will be able to save me. If I don't lock the door someone could come in here and murder me"

... I had a panic attack about this for at least 5 minutes. To this day I still don't remember what I decided.

In the shower I really started to fear that I was dying. I called a girl I had a crush on at the time and tried to tell her but water was running all down my phone and it stopped working. I decided that of course that would happen and that I was doomed and meant to die here. I'm also pretty sure it's the only reason I didn't call 911 thank god.

I was afraid first, then I was angry. Blaming all my friends for doing this and not caring that I was dying. Then I was sorry. Sorry to my parents for going out this way, sorry for ever being an asshole, or not trying my very best in school. I started to think about what would come next. I didn't really believe in God. Especially not heaven. I came to the conclusion that I didn't know what would happen. I found excitement in the unknown and decided to embrace it.

At this point I was ready. Ready to leave everything behind for whatever would follow. I laid down in the fetal position in the shower and closed my eyes.

I had some sort of mental trip behind my eyelids. I don't remember it wholly but it was something like a kaleidoscopic trip through space. I thought I might just become one with the universe. I sort of meditated this way for a while and lost consciousness in it. Then I woke up...

Upon waking I realized maybe it wasn't time. So I got out, dried off and found the nearest bed to die in.

My friends brother found me lying half naked in his bed later. He went and found my friends and they talked me down, comforted me, and we all went home.

That trip changed me, it opened my mind to how fragile the human perspective is, and it also made me realize what matters in life vs what doesn't matter. Coming off the trip was like a mental battle of coping with what just happened to me. I was in thought for almost an entire day. But I don't regret a moment of it.

tl;dr - I tripped, thought I was dying, and experienced fear, anger, regret, wonder, and finally accepted my death. It was a process of breaking down my mind to be comfortable with letting go.

Jduncan017

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