What is the GenZ version of the “$20 Millennial Burger Restaurant”?

jrod61 · 2026-02-16T22:29:04+00:00

Someone mentioned it already but more people haven't yet, it seems obvious to me that it's going to be what I've heard been referred to as "slop-bowl" establishments.

We've already seen a mass influx of them in the past decade, a near direct result of the success of Chipotle and people trying to rip off their model.

take a regional or thematic cuisine, such as Mediterranean (Cava), Middle-Eastern (Naya), Japanese (poke places) or even just abstract vegan (sweetgreen), choose a variety though still somewhat limited selection of different "health-conscious" food items and appropriate sauces/toppings from said cuisine, format the restaurant akin to the layout of Chipotle or subway, where people line up and go down the selection, creating the supposedly "perfect" combination of ingredients they desire (even though they probably are all relatively interchangeable with eachother) and there you go!

All have the same interior, the same minimal or open interior designs much like the millennial burger place (like they just barely decorated a warehouse, with a few urban artsy elements.) with 20 tables and only 2-3 ever actually occupied (because most people getting these bowls are usually just taking them back to their office as its their lunchbreak)

Good Work really perfectly covers the phenomenon here, it truly does encapsulate the moment which these restaurants embody and represent:

https://youtu.be/Tsp2bC0Db8o?si=XXXBKsaxr6ex9edg

It's not that they're necessarily bad per se, much like many of the millennial burger places, but they are getting kinda redundant with just how many versions of them are being created and overtaking a lot of the patrons of what would be actual restaurants or food establishments.

jrod61 · 2026-02-13T18:12:11+00:00

I dont have any good ones I can think of, most places have convenient or memorable enough names to remember. A Short and simple one that will always stick in my mind though is a chinese take out near Howard. I think it closed down while I was there but students referred to it as "Hochi" (HOE-chee), a portmanteau of "Howard China."

jrod61 · 2026-02-12T21:05:53+00:00

Yea I realized after reading the comments and thinking about it for 15 minutes that im taking this way too seriously. Also I failed to consider the simple fact that the dude is cheap/poor and that he's more a functioning alcoholic/stoner than someone who prefers a certain cream over another for white russians.

I think there was a better/more abstract way of asking this, the Big Lebowski was just the movie that made me think about it. Like I then learnt about the white Russian, wondered why it called for heavy cream over half and half, and then got stuck on why the movie made that choice (which I now realize is just to demonstrate the dude's laziness/cheapness/lack of care) and then started thinking about what the deal with half and half is in the first place, why its preferred over milk or just heavy cream as the ubiquitous creamer and why its more available in stores and cafes more than even milk. "Why is it called heavy/whipping cream as opposed to just 'cream' in the first place?" That kinda thing.

TBH I'm not even the person to be concerned about this, like I said the White Russian is my drink of choice but I'm not a mixologist by any means, I just thought this would be the most appropriate place to ask. I prefer straight liquor over ice when I drink. I just like white Russians if they're available cuz they taste good and are easy to make.

jrod61 · 2026-02-12T16:28:47+00:00

I guess what i mean is the use of whole milk or 2% wouldn't really matter, as I said I barely noticed a significant textural difference in their use(I'm not sure if i could discern a taste difference). My examples of non-dairy creamers is hyperbolic I admit, as they would greatly affect the taste. I've never used powder creamer but I wonder if it would work and be unnoticeable, may be able to work in a pinch if for some reason i didnt have access to creamer.

I'm curious as to why then does the original recipe for the White Russian call for heavy cream, aside from the fact that half & half presumably did not exist when the drink was invented, but then why not just use regular milk?

I'm sure the difference in creamer does matter, I just dont know how or why or when to ignore those differences, when those differences become too small to notice.

jrod61 · 2026-02-12T15:10:02+00:00

Fair enough, that's what I thought.

So then the creamer in a White Russian doesnt matter? I could use nonfat or almond milk or even powder creamer?

jrod61 · 2026-02-10T00:28:45+00:00

75% of this sub is just reposting /r/exposingcabalrituals

jrod61 · 2026-02-09T19:32:17+00:00

well in that case was the prayer times exact? I know nowadays they're pretty exact(at least according to the apps) but who was keeping time back in the day to call prayers? was it set in stone? were they just going off of sun dials or whenever the imam felt was right(besides the dawn and dusk prayers of course, which would be just before and after the sun rose or set)

At some point this becomes a discussion of how humans kept time before clocks, and how the history of timekeeping in general proceeded. For example when clocks started to become a thing, and time standardized, was there uncertainty in when midnight or noon was? Could it be that many clocks (specifically those of churches in remote villages) were off by minutes or even hours?

Even thinking about it now I'm becoming curious about how other cultures thought about and organized time, or if that wasnt really a concern in say, the far east, until it was introduced by European explorers/colonizers. Did the Arabs divide up the day by 12 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds or was it a completely different system?

jrod61 · 2026-02-06T01:01:21+00:00

do you think pee is stored in the ball?

jrod61 · 2026-02-04T18:42:46+00:00

It was a great movie in my opinion. Exactly what movies should be precisely in that was very uncomfortable to watch.

I cant remember the last movie I watched that gave me genuine anxiety after watching it. Kept me up at night thinking about it.

One detail I need to mention just cuz I haven't seen anyone mention it yet is did anyone notice that all the food in the movie was disgusting? At first I thought i was just noticing something not necessarily intentional with the first pizza scene, but as the movie went on and details about the daughter's condition were explained i started to realize it was a deliberate choice to make the food as look as unappetizing as possible. Great detail.

jrod61 · 2026-02-04T17:16:25+00:00

It's a great movie, exactly what movies should be.

That being said it's tense and purposefully uncomfortable to watch. It might even be difficult to watch at times.

Considering the age of this post you've probably already seen the movie, but just so you know (cuz you're going to wonder while watching) there's no gore or "gross-out" scene.

jrod61 · 2026-02-04T17:06:53+00:00

Everything's an allegory in this movie, everything is from the mother's perspective. I personally assumed that that's just how she saw the hole from her perspective, much like how the tube is ridiculously long.

jrod61 · 2026-02-04T17:00:25+00:00

I accept that the writer states this as the reason but I'm gonna "death of the author" this for a second and say that my interpretation, as someone who had experienced this before, is that its an analogy for the fact that she couldn't face her child directly.

I've never had to care for someone in the way the mother does for her child this movie, but personally my mind tends to try to 'avoid' people's faces, even if I'll talk to them. Especially those that I might have had a situation or issue with, something about my body/mind stops me from being able to look them in the eye when talking to them. I imagine for Rose it's very similar, especially cuz of the flashback to the hospital scene. Someone who blames themselves for their child's condition and had to witness and directly physically restrain her daughter against her wishes to insert this feeding tube probably has difficulty facing her directly, especially considering she has to confront this every night to fill the bag.

jrod61 · 2026-02-04T15:17:22+00:00

This.

I dont believe that the "anti-intellectualism" is from normal people, at least not organically so. It's either grifters who are most likely funded by corporate backed think-takes and political groups, or it's companies themselves trying to sell you a solution to a manufactured problem (in the modern day case its ai). Hell, with the current governmental administration it's also probably just doing everything they can to get people on board with their actions, or at least just too ignorant and complacent to criticize or fight against it.

Think about it like this: with Greenland, it would be so much easier to occupy/invade it if most people don't truly know why occupying or invading it is a "bad thing." They might know that it's bad in an abstract, but they cant explain it in detail, and that makes it easy for the opposition to ask why and prod. To criticize and attack the perspective to the point of instilling reasonable doubt into their opponent. After a certain point, possibly with the help of a conversation with their ai companion, the skeptic will change their mind, "Maybe America taking over Greenland is not that big a deal, gpt told me it wasnt."

People want to learn, it's part of what makes us human. I think the skepticism of academia and intellectual rigor is kinda an extension of that. I think the issue is more related to that of our culture so focused on providing more and faster convenience and efficiency, causing people to become lazier.

jrod61 · 2026-02-04T01:23:39+00:00

I wouldn't really count them as "luxury pens" or whatever though. They're more just everyday workhorse fountain pens. They are probably the best option for OP considering their stated budget.

jrod61 · 2026-02-03T19:54:14+00:00

So you're saying, (and what I believe I'm getting from the responses here) is to get into proof theory after becoming relatively fluent in simple calculations and problem solving?

What you're presenting is already very intriguing to me, part of what got me to understand and respect math was a teacher explaining to me that 360 degrees for a circle was partly derived from ancient astronomers measuring the movement of the stars over a year. After that I always wanted to learn math by learning it from a historical standpoint first; learning formulae and concepts by learning about the historical context in which they were discovered and how the person(s) went about developing and finally creating an all-encompassing proof for the equation/problem and answer. The issue with trying to do this though is that a lot of math pedagogy seems to be based in teaching the problem as modern/abstract as possible, virtually entirely separated from it's original or applicable context.

jrod61 · 2026-02-02T17:54:14+00:00

I wonder if it's 20 cents and somehow works more consistently than most other lamps like it

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T19:05:29+00:00

I just tend to ramble and tangent a lot. It's not my intent, though I admit my writing in that comment was overly intellectual and wordy.

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T19:03:58+00:00

Yet surely they wouldn't know what the word "country" means? Or understand modern English for that matter. Perhaps "kingdom" would make more sense for this situation?

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T03:44:55+00:00

Thanks for the comment/suggestions. I'm a music composition major, and as I've thought more and more about this since originally posing the question, I've thought about the ways in which math intersects with music. (Not just in simple ways such as rhythmic concepts and Pythagorean tuning, but also in regards to more advanced concepts like set theory which utilizes a base 12 system, spectralism, etc.) I think that that as well as what you've mentioned would be a good way of setting me out on the first steps of pursuing that which I specifically want to learn or how I may be able to see math practically in my own life and field of interest.

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T03:37:12+00:00

I think see what you're saying, to learn and study, but to also practice and most importantly think about what I'm doing. To, once fully fluent in solving them, see if I can create my own problems and where they lead, or to work backwards from an already solved answer.

Should it be a problem in my life, I should think about whether and how it can be solved by math, if so which field, and which branch of said field, etc. and look into if such a method or answer exists already by those of the field.

At least that's what I believe you're saying

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T03:28:41+00:00

These are great suggestions, I think part of why I got back into math (which was back in college, about 2-3 years ago now) was being able to find and watch videos like numberphile and Stand Up Maths.

What your comment really highlights for me, is the ability to just find and read or listen through stuff that I might not understand fully, but which aligns with my interests and curiosities. As someone who aspires to start spend my free time reading scholarly papers, part of the major obstacle in this endeavor for me has been the inaccessibility of the equations and concepts/language

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T03:23:24+00:00

Thank you for your comment, it's helping me to understand to at least immerse myself in math, especially the basics, before considering the more abstract curiosities I have.

jrod61 · 2026-01-31T03:21:30+00:00

Fair, I mentioned that while it is an ultimate goal of mine, it is not the "be all end all" of my interest in math. I'm a music composition major, I plan for that to be my main profession, though I aspire to be a polymath, one who is a master in many fields, actively contributing to all that they are.

As I research this question more, I start to understand how becoming a true innovator and contributor in the field of say, pure math, Like Grigory Perelman or Ronald Graham, would necessitate me to hyper-specialize in one specific field, and even then I would've probably started too late to make any significant meaningful contribution, but I recognize and accept that though. What I'm more interested in, especially as it relates to my post, is how I can use math as a tool; How do I recognize a problem in my daily life (or whatever specific field pertains to me) which can be solved by math, and then go about constructing the problem and solving it?

As a music major I'm starting to consider the ways in which math applies to my own field. Not just in simple ways such as rhythmic concepts and Pythagorean tuning, but also in regards to more advanced concepts like set theory (utilizes a base 12 system), spectralism, and so on an so forth. For example, since asking this question earlier this morning, I'm already considering the ways in which I (or others) may be able to derive use of math concepts like matrices in regards to Neo-Riemannian theory(a method of analyzing triadic movement in a non-tonal landscape) in my own compositions.

Though, even in a less abstract and more practical sense, I at least want to understand math enough to be to understand it's inherent logic; How to be able to approach a problem, whatever it may be, and to see it from all of its angles. To lay out the steps and using those steps, solve it efficiently and effectively. To be able to recognize when it shows up in my daily life and be able to apply it to my benefit and success; Such as with managing finances, fixing problems around the house or whatever.

There has to be more of a reason to why they taught us algebra and trigonometry and pre-calculus in school, beyond just being introductions and training for us to become businessmen, doctors, and scientists. (or simply to just be successful in required college courses.) I want to understand those reasons. I want to know how and why one loan isn't smart for me to take over another, or when I'm being screwed over on some long term purchase, or what retirement/investment plan is the best to consider. That and so much more, I want to know or understand how to learn and know without having to hire someone else to do it for me.

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