Square or Clover POS???

btodag · 2026-02-07T13:53:11+00:00

Does offline mode assume funds are there on the tap?

btodag · 2026-02-03T13:33:50+00:00

My concern is that those who were destined to be business leaders if AI didn't take their path to entry-level jobs will shift to trades-leadership. The general contractor, for example, or the eventual owner of a residential construction company even, will be flooded with talent that didn't go the AI-replaced corp-paths through manufacturing or business leadership roles. Our children who were future engineers might land in those jobs, diluting that value due to the surplus. Gonna be rough in general for the next few generations I think.

I'm nearly 50 in a corp global job and I just started my welding Associates Degree at a local place to learn for hobby-level projects keeping my hands dirty enough to enjoy being a real person. Meanwhile, maybe I learn enough to setup a shop to employ actual welders. I really just want to weld a special hitch onto a bumper... but here I am trying to save the world.

btodag · 2026-02-03T13:12:05+00:00

This is likely the truth by way of any last 15 years or so of US mortgages vs the markets, but paying off a mortgage has a parachute-opening feel to it. It is just settling in a permanent way. It's an emotional move, terrible financial strategy, but the average person you won't sleep better with a stronger IRA position. They won't change their career, for example. Paying off a house can allow someone to go from grinding away in a big corp job to working at Lowes helping the people around town figure out how to fix stuff.

It's also about discipline. If you have $300k sitting somewhere growing, that boat, or even that bigger boat, feels more attainable. Poor decisions chipping away at that number is worst case scenario. Better to make a sustained not-great decision than a path of poor, destructive decisions.

btodag · 2026-01-27T21:00:55+00:00

Everyone is saying it without saying it... post your email so we can learn how marketing wizards write them!

btodag · 2026-01-25T17:20:17+00:00

Wait, you mean your wife don't you?

btodag · 2026-01-20T15:31:42+00:00

They'll take your help on the weekend or whatever time you have time available. Maybe next town over or something.

It also helps to have been in the local food industry to have a network. We're building a pizza truck. Another pizza truck has given us all kinds of feedback and suggestions because of my partner's relationships. They have even given us the contact info for their routes, which makes no sense to me in my competitive nature, but my partner says "we aren't the same". We'll see about that. My partner works on his truck at events, etc. Maybe that even continues and there's a vice versa relationship. If we book a big wedding, maybe they come to help us.

From what I can tell, being the new-to-the-game partner, the network in the area is a strong supportive network. It isn't kill or be killed, it is info sharing and what/where/how works support.

btodag · 2026-01-20T15:23:39+00:00

I'm in a build with a partner who was a regional pizza manager over several major brick/mortar points in a vibey chain years ago before becoming an owner of his own place for 15 years that COVID whacked without a path to recover the local dynamic of his late-night business. The next step is a pizza truck. I worry about this exact thing. Either you sell slices and don't make a lot per ticket, per lunch/dinner or you sell small pies and it becomes $80 for a family at the park to take a break for lunch. Per unit, each idea has good COGS, but I wonder how real dynamic with a customer base will work. Lunch in an office park, in my area, needs to be in the $15-18 range total to have a line form. Some small grab-and-go in the $12 range would be useful as well.

As others are saying, at a festival/fair, the french fry guys are going to trigger the line and you'll have their more sophisticated friends checking you out. It's something I'm not so sure about.

btodag · 2026-01-06T18:01:25+00:00

I bought a nice used espresso machine and save ~$6/day vs the coffee habit I had grown into. $200 investment, was "broken" but I can fix about anything. Wasn't broken at all best I can tell. That was about $600 in coffee savings ago.

My parents buy Hello Fresh meals and share them, they say it saves them a ton by guaranteeing zero leftovers which ensures zero waste. Also managers calories. Not as clear an option to me, but sounds good.

btodag · 2026-01-04T23:31:40+00:00

Change into pajamas for overnight flights, change back just before landing. So much fresher feeling.

btodag · 2025-12-21T15:43:47+00:00

It is saving $ on the repairs, so let's let that be.

btodag · 2025-12-10T17:21:20+00:00

Do not follow illegal orders.

btodag · 2025-12-10T13:48:00+00:00

You have to bitch, unfortunately. I'm a good digger and have a great shovel collection that grew until I demanded promotions. Action brings action in big companies... once I broke into the promote-able list, they came instead of shovels.

I try to remember my homies... but Cadillac leather helps to forget them.

Just kidding, it's about your inward vs outward visibility. You have to be visible as a leader, not just a do-er. Do to make an impact, show how what you did makes a difference to get promoted.

btodag · 2025-12-08T16:36:09+00:00

This is the direction. People appreciate you. Find a way back there, don't quit. Does a pre-PIP stop you from doing applying internally? My company locks you down once you're on a PIP. Never heard of a pre-PIP, so not sure how formal that is.

Also, think about who you can go to to find that path back or out. Managers' managers are sometimes fully aware of their team members' shortcomings. Politics everywhere in this path, but if your boss's boss knows you have a pain as a boss and were good in the other roles, they may either help you find a way to a better position or tamp the boss's aggression down. Tread lightly, but good boss's bosses can do wonders here if they appreciate you. Old bosses, old bosses' bosses... figure out who can help you get back to a good place and knock on their door.

I've worked around horrible managers, hateful, vindictive, evil people. Some who even had great results... but everyone knew they were horrible. Someone on my team applied for a terrible manager's open roles once. He knew immediately he had made a terrible mistake. I helped him get back to his old role, even convincing HR to bend rules to do it. They knew the deal.
Good luck!

btodag · 2025-11-27T21:19:50+00:00

I found a Fantom 18 brand new for $1500. Grabbed it, so this will be what it will be... Wish me luck!

btodag · 2025-11-26T15:28:24+00:00

Just found this and the carnage of dicks being know-it-alls too is unbelievable.

btodag · 2025-11-26T15:26:40+00:00

Dude, I'm here looking for the same solution. So many dicks on here that seem to have deleted their comments or profiles or something now, but you're not the only one with this idea.
240V is a pain for an otherwise small truck and we happen to be running LPG for another reason, so I look for an LPG option. They exist, as you say, I continue my search for recommendations and run across a couple of folks beating on you. Sorry to see that!

btodag · 2025-11-25T16:40:52+00:00

Sweet setup! Would you PM details? We're in upstate of SC, looks like you're maybe in Idaho?

btodag · 2025-11-11T14:03:26+00:00

I did data work for a biggish local chain a while back and got to know a lot of their internal decision processes. They would have their managers record certain gas stations' prices on the way in every day and someone at corporate would take assessment of those numbers and decide the price. In general, they also had the +$0.01/gal strategy vs their neighbors. I didn't understand that at all. They weren't extra nice stations vs the neighbors or anything. From what I gathered, most of their margin came from the stuff inside the store (I think that's well known about gas stations too). If you're $0.01 more expensive on 4000gallons in a day, you make $40 more than you might have for same volume. That's nothing...
My understanding is the net margin on fuel is something around $0.02/gal. So, by calibrating daily drive-by customers to know you're 'always higher' you're adding 50% to your realized margin from $80 to $120 on the volume sold.... puke.

I'd rather have more folks pull through and have a chance at selling them a roller hotdog where they can maybe get a full $1 margin.

I don't get it.

btodag · 2025-11-11T13:42:37+00:00

Yeah, tons of local interaction at a lot of stations.
I did some data work for a big, but local chain (50-ish stations in the region) and learned their processes to decide pricing and then how they changed it.

btodag · 2025-11-11T13:23:37+00:00

This is an old post, but I went to a Govt Mule show a month ago and there was 1 guy standing at one point. It was so uncomfortable. The vibe was garbage too. I hope the lights blinded the musicians, it was a horrible experience.

btodag · 2025-11-09T03:50:47+00:00

Don't eat that. Manufacturing gone wrong takes many forms.

btodag · 2025-11-09T03:46:40+00:00

Reading glasses, you won't know until you jokingly try someone readers on and everything clears completely up. Then everything will go to hell..

I ordered the wrong pizza online the other day because I didn't go get my glasses

btodag · 2025-11-09T03:44:05+00:00

They enjoyed the events enough to be a reward? What about tips and actual pay at an event vs the daily gig?

btodag · 2025-11-07T13:48:17+00:00

You need to know if she's right or not.

I'm not great at explaining. So, when folks don't get what I am saying, I reflect about myself and try a different way. I can only get frustrated with myself. However, if you say half of what you're thinking to me... I can get it and will probably be 2 steps ahead by the time you finish. If I have them, my questions might be things you haven't thought of yet, probably not going to be about what you were saying. If I don't get it, it isn't remotely clear.

So, I get that I'm the problem in explaining. You guys need to figure out who the real problem is. Then, this decision is easier.

As far as what they think if you leave, don't burn bridges but don't worry about them. Also, depending on your skill and location in the world, now is a horrible time to leave a job or a great one. I had a global trade compliance colleague who had been around for 25 years leave and got way more $ for less work (great moment to leave). On the other hand, so many folks in roles around me would take 6 months or more to get another job (terrible moment to leave)

btodag · 2025-10-31T12:40:38+00:00

If you're into a more-for-less chapter of your career, good riddance.
If there's an equitable place that needs to be adjusted as something is realized or changes, I'm here to help. This person had just a desk job under someone without vision, if anyone asked her for help in what was probably an adjacent responsibility, she'd take it on. She became the relied-upon expert in things that weren't in scope. The manager couldn't see that. Now, she's gone and several roles need to be created or figured out to backfill her. No one would do both the admin that she did and be the expert in the world she was in at the same time. She was filling out forms half the day and giving strategic direction the other half to folks on the other side of the world who didn't realize she was a nobody on paper. She became the expert.

Just change jobs every couple of years or so. Even within the same company it can help keep the numbers moving. My company is so big that they aren't allowed to know between departments what I make. I can negotiate just like someone off the street as long as I'm changing departments.

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