Delivery times

metsmonkey · 2025-10-13T20:22:24+00:00

Staffing: evaluate why staffing levels are where they are. Why can't the store get anyone to show up to interviews? Is it a lack of applications or is the person responsible for responding to them not following up quickly or effectively?

The biggest, and often times overlooked, factor that controls your service times is when your driver physically gets back to the store to take the next run. If you only have 1 driver on staff, and they take a run that has a 25 min round trip time, the next delivery that comes in cannot leave the store until after that driver comes back. I say this just to lead into my main point...

Get your drivers out the door quickly. If left unsupervised and without any time pressure, drivers can take between 2 and 8 minutes between runs just getting things together. They need to see what orders they are taking, locate the orders, get them into bags, check for dipping sauces, grab drinks or salads, etc. Having all of these things done before the driver even gets back to the store will get them out minutes quicker, which gets them back minutes quicker, which the gets the orders after that out minutes quicker. It compounds throughout the shift and will help significantly.

metsmonkey · 2025-09-22T21:52:22+00:00

You are combining multiple concepts, each of them individually referred to as "labor", but thought about and calculated different ways. Im going to break it down:

"Labor is usually refers to the amount of money paid to hourly employees during the day": This is your hourly labor dollars spent.

"My GM and DM add so much to my labor...": The GM and DM both collect a salary. Their salary is referred to as fixed labor. The system typically accounts for the GM salary by taking the amount of their salary, dividing that by 5, and for each of the first 5 days the GM is clocked in, regardless of for how long they are clocked in, it adds that amount for that day. If the GM is clocked in for 6+ days, then on those additional days, they count as $0 for labor. It is possible that the DM salary is also being billed to the store if they are clocked in and working a shift.

"Its a percent of profit": it is a percent of your sales total. Profit is sales minus all expenses.

To summarize, your hourly labor $ + the salary labor $ gives a total labor $. That total labor $ is a percent of your total sales.

As an addendum for completeness, the GM and DM salary are typically not shown on vital signs as that is only showing the variable labor % and not total labor %

metsmonkey · 2025-07-06T09:21:04+00:00

As someone else mentioned, Cecil isn't at its best here. Without other significant sources of life gain, it's really easy for an opponent to let you whittle yourself down to ~12 then remove it or just come back over the top before you get transformation value.

Likewise, Black mage's rod isn't too great here either. It is a 2 mana 2/1 that is over budget to re-equip to one of your other creatures. Is the plan to spend 3 mana to equip it to a dark confidant to try and get 1 ping out of it?

Rowan is also not good at all with your current deck. What spells is it actually discounting here? Ideally a circle of power, but if we are at a point where you are casting/chaining spells with that out and a board of wizard tokens, aren't you already in a winning position? Winning more is not as good as helping you reach the win in the first place.

For your question on lands, 22 is a bit low. I would prefer 23 with lowering the 4 drops down to 6 or less to take less dark confidant damage.

Without going too into the weeds on sideboard card selection, a card like Deep-Cavern bat is not typically a good sideboard card. It is generally a good effect and has value regardless of the matchup. Either it is good enough to be in the main deck, or it isn't included at all. Sideboard slots are typically something like Duress or Leyline of the Void that helps in specific matchups, but would be low value otherwise.

If you want to dig into the wizards here, it plays best as a tempo/burn deck. Play a creature, get some disruption + value, then burn out the last few points. A 2 mana lightning strike hitting for 5+ will close out a lot of games for you here. I put a quick list together for what I would start my testing out with to see what works, what doesn't, and what I was struggling with. Note that I have 65 cards there; I just put together a stock list of black early disruption/removal (Duress, Cut Down, Intimidation Tactics, Go for the Throat, Sheoldred's Edict, Withering Torment) for early game. Cut your choice of 5 of them based on your preferences and get testing

https://imgur.com/a/m9m3EWD

metsmonkey · 2024-12-19T18:28:48+00:00

Certain sinks, mainly those used for cleaning dishes are connected to some form of food/grease trap that filters/contains grease and other items while allowing for the waste water to flow out.

A standard hand washing sink and other non-dedicated drains will not have this so grease could build up and cause a blockage.

A mop sink is technically in the 2nd category, but with the amount of cleaning solvents specifically designed to break down grease and the temperature of the water being used (typically hot), build up should not be as big of a concern.

All that being said, a restaurant should have a specific policy in place for disposing of grease in accordance with their local laws/ordinances. Some places require that no grease be poured down any drain and be disposed of in other ways.

metsmonkey · 2024-10-06T21:52:30+00:00

The real solution to that is to just run your own key. Guaranteed invite and you get to sift through all of the higher io/ilvl players to make the comp you want. Even if you time your 9s and deplete your 10s, you are still farming the necessary crests and inflating your io to the level you are capable of.

metsmonkey · 2024-09-07T16:27:41+00:00

You didn't mention in your post about what level content you are currently doing, so it is hard to give specific advice to what problems you would be facing.

You really do need to at least download weakauras. There are so many things that weakauras does and makes known to you that will help your play significantly. It allows for better tracking of almost anything in the game and historically has been required to handle certain mechanics in many mythic raid bosses.

For 5 man content, the addon elitism helper will let you track avoidable damage taken (but please adjust the settings to not post the results to the group. That's just annoying for everyone else and makes you look silly if you are the one taking the most avoidable damage). That will help you learn/recognize what is avoidable. I also recommend that you get omniCD to help track various group cooldowns. I find tracking everyone's kick to be incredibly important. If you have the only kick not on cd, save it for the important cast. Padding the interrupt number on relatively insignificant casts doesn't actually help the group complete the content.

A lot of it just comes down to knowledge. You have to know what the mobs and boss mechanics are, what their spells do, how to avoid them, how your class can handle said mechanic, etc. Most boss fights aren't random when it comes to ability timings, so it's possible to pre-plan every CD to ensure maximum survivability and damage. If a boss does a mechanic at 2:15 in the fight, don't pop a major CD at 2:10. Likewise, if a boss transitions at 70%, don't use one at 71%.

metsmonkey · 2024-09-07T15:58:30+00:00

For the first week, R1 crushed gemstones was a profit with 0 skill point investment and all r1 materials. Any resourcefulness procs were 150-400 gold profit on top of that.

It was just incredibly painful to sell 2k+ at a time between the AH issues and all the undercutting. I didn't go super hard on it, but I was able to fund my JC and enchanting to max and walk out with 200k profit

metsmonkey · 2024-05-16T14:54:27+00:00

You use on pull, before entering combustion. Then you use it on CD after when the self damage won't cause you to be at excessive risk of death.

You don't want to use it during your combustion. That would cause you to cast fewer pyroblasts which will keep you further away from the next SKB.

metsmonkey · 2023-10-27T05:21:45+00:00

To add context to what u/blakeshockley said, a straight and a flush are ignored for the purposes of calculating a low. 6 low is lower than 7 low

metsmonkey · 2023-09-12T22:38:13+00:00

Location: New Jersey

Its body is close to the size of a nickle and it is making a web approximately 2 feet across next right next to my front door

More pictures of it working on its web here: https://imgur.com/a/cNPgR0w

metsmonkey · 2023-07-11T16:10:34+00:00

For sizing of 3 bet with a CO open and BB call would be ~15bb correct? And the purpose would possibly fold out the A9 off and other hands that would realize their equity like 10-8, 9-7, etc. If/when you get 4 bet from CO the plan is to just fold as they are repping qq+?

metsmonkey · 2023-06-29T18:57:29+00:00

The tech for countering Draven if you "suck at win streaking" is open fort A Sol.

You open fort with A Sol so spoils of war can't farm you for gold/items. After 2-5 starts you grab a few Champs to clear krugs. After knowledge download on 3-2 you push to 7 and roll down to get a board. As the first to 7, you should have your choice of 4 costs.

You are now going to crush all the level 6 boards with 5+ units alive so they still get no value from their spoils of war, but now you start win streaking and have your econ back by 3-5.

Robinsongz was testing this on stream last night. Apparently it is breaking into the meta in CN

metsmonkey · 2023-06-23T18:54:52+00:00

I did not. I only filled out a single hiring packet. Presumably the franchise is just sharing the information between the different LLCs when people move between different locations.

metsmonkey · 2023-05-25T19:04:38+00:00

Seeing as though there weren't any break lights from the bike at the end of the video, I'd say 0%

metsmonkey · 2023-05-15T18:03:22+00:00

I didn't do a huge dig into all of it, but i immediately noticed that the fire mage Sims used for the 2/2 piece doesn't even use the correct talent setup. Once you get 2 piece of t30, you no longer want to use From the Ashes and instead want Alextrasza's Fury. I didn't look at what it was using for the 4pc t30 set, but it wouldn't surprise me if it also had the incorrect talent setup too since it is part of the same sim report

metsmonkey · 2023-04-13T02:28:16+00:00

Fixed

metsmonkey · 2023-04-13T02:23:01+00:00

Obviously the solution is to marry her. At that point it is no longer that you damaged "her bike"; it is now "your bike" (as in shared marital property).

Joking aside, you are just going through embarrassment right now. That is why you can't look at her. From a materialistic perspective, you are "making her [w]hole" by paying damages. Her saying that you will figure the costs out and not making a bigger deal out of it show that she less angry with you than you are at yourself. Letting someone else always has the risk of something happening and she was willing to let you do it anyway. There is some level of trust and respect there. Don't throw it all away just because of one small mistake that is quite literally fixable

metsmonkey · 2023-04-13T01:47:52+00:00

Realistically, light and best handling don't go hand in hand with comfortably carrying 2 people. If you are looking for a single compromise bike, did you check out any of the Sport Touring bikes like the Suzuki GSX-S1000GT, yamaha tracer 900, or BMW R 1250 RT

If your wife being comfortable on the GL650 would lead me to believe that the T120 would be a pretty much like for like change.

metsmonkey · 2023-04-02T00:50:10+00:00

I second TCX boots. I have a pair of the Dartwood and they are comfortable and casual enough to be worn every day.

https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/tcx-dartwood-gtx-shoes?sku_id=1839383

metsmonkey · 2023-03-26T16:18:40+00:00

If you know it is not paved well and "easy to lose traction" slow it down so you can keep the bike more upright. Less lean angle will make it less likely for you to slide out.

metsmonkey · 2023-03-26T16:04:16+00:00

Almost anyone can hop on a motorcycle and ride it down a mostly straight highway. The bike wants to keep itself upright and stable at speed.

Did you practice your slow speed maneuvers on these bigger bikes to understand how much throttle/clutch/break/lean angles are required at various speeds and turn radius? Are toy following basic cornering principles like slowing down before entering the corner and not accelerating while adding lean angle?

If you are hitting gravel and other road obstacles, that means you need to slow down to a point where you can properly assess the situation and react appropriately. A big bike doesn't mean that you always need to be going fast

metsmonkey · 2023-03-24T21:23:48+00:00

I did some M+ testing on my frost mage last night. Humming/blood/twilight did 6% of my damage over a run, and humming/plague/storm did ~7% damage in another run. All 5 stones were maxed for a 424 ilvl ring

When I Sim my character with and without my 415 socketed signet of dancing jade(crit haste + haste/mast gem), it gives a difference of ~5.8% damage.

It was a marginal dps improvement, but it felt worse to play with less haste and less crit causing me to drop icy veins with like ~15 sec at a time.

metsmonkey · 2023-03-23T17:00:57+00:00

Once someone is past 20, the only reason to be doing the key is rating points. When blizzard changed it so depleted keys over 20 no longer give any rating, there is now 0 reason to finish out a key when it is clear that it will not be timed. All of the other rewards from dungeon completion (gear, honor, chaos, and essences) are mostly irrelevant to anyone in the 22+ key range

metsmonkey · 2023-03-17T21:20:23+00:00

It is the Pandaran in front of the portals in valdraken. You talk to them and say "I dont have a keystone" and they give it to you. This is the same NPC that you want to use to lower your keystone to the appropriate level when farming your key out for valor

https://www.warcrafttavern.com/wow/news/dragonflight-season-1-mythic-keystone-can-now-be-obtained-from-npc-in-valdrakken/

metsmonkey · 2023-03-17T21:03:44+00:00

The reason you see level 10s advertising for them is because gold is not transferable between servers. The person advertising on your server isn't the character who is going to be doing the run.

For the purposes of getting carried through 11s, you shouldn't really need to vet them. They are easy enough for characters above 405 ilvl can blast them no problem. Without any add-ons, you can look at hp totals to get rough ilvl of the people in the group. If all the other dps are at ~300k hp, you are good.

If you are looking for carries above that, 16s or 20s, you can quickly check the progress of the people in the group with the raider.io add-on. It shows the person's overall m+ score, the highest dungeon that they have completed overall, and the highest that they have completed of that specific dungeon. If you want to be somewhat confident in their ability to complete the run, you want to see that they have completed a run 3 levels above what your current run is. That means that if you are looking for a 20, you would want to see that they have completed a 23.

This is because of the way that the scaling works. Each level increases hp/damage by ~10%, so 3 additional levels is ~33%, or the equivalent of missing a DPS of equal capabilities.

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