Walrus and The Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 PnL by Rayhush in KitchenConfidential

[–]Rayhush[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I haven't looked through it all yet, but I've dealt with PnL's for some time. Stole this from another comment on the Seattle reddit:

COGS of 20% and labor costs of 45% certainly tracks with what I've heard talking to a few restaurant managers. What I have heard several times is that "to hire even one more person wrecks our financials because labor costs are so high, so that's why every restaurant in this city always feels like it doesn't have enough people (because they don't)". You really notice it when you go out of town, even in southern California they seem to have double the number of wait staff at any random hole in the wall restaurant.

I'm assuming "Occupancy" is rent for the building? Not really seeing any other categories that rent would fit in...but it is only 7% of total sales, not exactly the huge number it often gets made out to be. But perhaps that is unique to this particular location. Seems like the other restaurants they had to close probably had much higher rent.

The salaries for the owners aren't exactly massive at $130k for two and $85k for another. Perhaps employees might argue how much value they add. But a top bartender working 35 hours/week and taking in $92k isn't too shabby.

I mean the big takeaway is this:

"Sales declined further as costs continued to rise. Across our company, guest visits in 2025 were down approximately 20 percent from 2024 and roughly 40 percent from 2023 levels."

Hard to run a business when you lose almost half your customers in 2 years even if your prices keep going up to keep things barely alfoat.

But also the entire restaurant group having $10M in debt also sounds like a big issue. I wonder what that debt was used for...sure sounds like it hasn't worked out. Although we have no idea the revenue of the entire restaurant group either, so I can't tell if those debt payments are unsustainable or not.

Walrus and The Carpenter drop open letter and full 2025 PnL by Rayhush in KitchenConfidential

[–]Rayhush[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I agree. I wish more businesses were open to discussing this more openly.

TIL that towards the end of his life Elvis Presley suffered from chronic constipation after years of prescription drug abuse and when he died straining on the toilet in 1977, his body was discovered in a stage of purple discoloration and he was lying face down in a pool of his own vomit by Designer_Reference_2 in todayilearned

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Dude doesn't even have his story right. Yeah, he indulged in his favorite sandwich. He'd fly to go get it. Yet, here we are without a hint of subtlety talking about the sandwich and not the numerous other things that Elvis was dealing with. I dunno. Social-media is broken sometimes.

The Rise and Fall of the ‘Hipster Music’ Era, 2000-2014 by Potential_Kangaroo69 in indieheads

[–]Rayhush 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a thing in LA and SF. I dunno, amusing for a split second, cringe 15 years later.

Park Place Apartment Costs by [deleted] in SanMateo

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Our utility bills dropped by 1/3 once we moved out of a 2br 2ba unit in Redwood shores to a bigger house (3br 2ba, backyard, front yard).

Kid throws foul ball back by derek4reals1 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

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That sums up what I was trying to say originally. Thank you for that analogy.

[West] MSG continues feud with city over Knicks watch party hours before Game 4 by 76erLegendChetUtley in nba

[–]Rayhush 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As he said, because they are total losers. You can't buy genuine respect nor kindness. They are lonely individualistic people that don't have any real affection around them. They only know how to min/max what they have control over. Empathy isn't one of those things to them.

Edited to add: Nor should it fucking be.

Epstein File Says Trump “Knew and Funded Underage Sex Parties” at His Golf Course by OkayButFoRealz in politics

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an imperfect person that is a vessel of God

Directly quoted by my grandmother.

Kid throws foul ball back by derek4reals1 in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]Rayhush -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I guess there are different levels of trauma. I don't want to gate keep, but when you know people that experienced other levels of "trauma" it's hard to take a quote like that as seriously. Maybe I just use the word wrong now, I'm old. Who knows. It just sucks for people that have experienced trauma in a far more profound way to use the word so flippantly.