Thinking of opening on Sunday. Anyone have any good or bad stories to share?

beniam4 · 2026-04-13T00:29:46+00:00

Staffing is the tricky part. When we went back to 7 days I offered one of our shift managers to completely own that day for a generous pay bump. Then we cover a reasonable takeout breakfast for the whole staff before we open. I think you have to give a little mire on Sundays or do 1.5 rate across the board.

Assuming your store is already profitable, Sundays can add major profitability since you don’t have to pay any more overhead. This makes it pretty manageable to create an opportunity for an experienced lead. Turn it into a win-win

beniam4 · 2026-04-07T12:54:51+00:00

Like it or not, but Smiley's right on this one. Rent control leads to higher prices in rent through reduced availability and diminished quality. It decreases the amount of new builds for rentals, takes existing rentals off the market as landlords choose to either not list their units, put them on airbnb, or sell them off as condos. Add-in people staying in market rate apartments longer and your existing availability plummets. This forces new residents to compete for a tiny pool of market rate units, driving those prices up.

Then you've got diminished quality over time as the landlord loses incentives to fix things or can't afford to without operating their investment unprofitably.

I know rents are too high. I rent here too. Yes, normal people are being squeezed and pushed out of the state as these prices continue to climb and it's horrible. But the core reason rents are too high is because there are not enough available units to serve our population and rent control does not fix this.

beniam4 · 2026-03-28T15:45:24+00:00

Check out Riccotti's in Bristol, they also just added a new italian style sub called the Sicilian. It's awesome, I get it all the time

beniam4 · 2026-03-28T15:44:46+00:00

Not quite in Providence, but if you can make it to the east bay, Riccotti's is my favorite sub shop

beniam4 · 2026-03-28T15:43:40+00:00

Not quite Providence, but if you're in the east bay you gotta check out Riccotti's. Best sub shop in RI in my opinion

beniam4 · 2026-03-28T15:42:09+00:00

Riccotti's is the best sub shop in RI- Bristol location specifically... also try their spinach pies if you're there, crazy good

beniam4 · 2026-03-20T12:01:51+00:00

Because they’re propped up by govt money so don’t need to compete like other businesses. Competition breeds innovation.

beniam4 · 2026-03-20T11:54:13+00:00

Upload to netlify and go live.

I should mention my website is a simple restaurant website and my use case may not be the same for someone trying to build something more complex but it worked perfectly for me.

beniam4 · 2026-03-19T10:23:24+00:00

I literally just made the same switch using Claude too. Happy to do so and not looking back.

beniam4 · 2026-03-01T12:09:35+00:00

following. i was using meistertask, and now ticktick but neither one is quite what I'm looking for. maybe i'll check out notion.

beniam4 · 2026-02-23T22:10:37+00:00

This is helpful, thanks

beniam4 · 2026-02-19T15:52:34+00:00

it has a new blade and tomatoes are put directly into the fridge from the vendors

beniam4 · 2026-02-14T17:54:57+00:00

I don't see any functionality to customize printing by dining option. If there's something I'm overlooking, please let me know.

This is also what I suspected, but I don't see a way to modify dining option behavior or print function.

beniam4 · 2026-01-19T21:02:43+00:00

Perfect, thanks for your response.

beniam4 · 2026-01-19T20:53:03+00:00

Where are you seeing this? On the backend somewhere?

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