BrianFlanagan

Restaurants are dropping left and right and it’s because of labor costs. Kitchen labor is up 50% since Covid.

During the shutdown, the government was giving free money to anyone that would take it. The labor pool became impossibly small because why would anyone work with free money being given to them? Restaurants still had to pay rent, utilities, etc. so they did to-go only. Finding workers was impossible and started offering more money in efforts to get employees to come to work. Now, workers aren’t just going to go back to pre-Covid hourly rates.

Another big problem is Amazon opening two large warehouses and the food delivery apps. A lot of former kitchen workers work for Amazon and driving for DoorDash/Uber Eats. Both of those are paying ~$20/hour.

Your potato is $12 now because the guy cooking it used to make $10-12/hour and now probably makes $16-18. People keep saying things like “well, I buy potatoes at the store for…” and are missing the entire point.

BFW hates Arkansas with the strongest of passions. This is 100% a (successful) troll.

I’ve bought 100s of tickets off of them all combined.

Related to your specific wondering, I bought Real Madrid vs PSG Club World Cup tickets over the summer and had no issues.

My guy has Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome and should have a long healthy life. If you survive finding out you have it, it's not too bad to keep under control. Thanks for the prayers!

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Yall paid $50 million to be rid of your coach after this loss. It was a big moment. Continue to downplay it if you want.

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This is obviously true, but no one I know was upset about the loss hoping this would be the outcome. He didn't just get fired for losses. He also got fired for being the biggest douche to ever step foot on campus.

Will that be too much to ask? Offer the world. Offer something stupid like $15m/year to Kiffin, if that's who they really target. But, can it only be for 3-5 years or are we not going to learn?

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LSU won the national championship in 2023 with the best pitcher at any level at that time on their team

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Best pitcher who didn't pitch at all in the championship series. Despite winning, I'm still bitter how the College World Series seems to often work out. In a best of three series for the national championship, teams should be allowed to get back to full strength for a true determination of the better team. Thankfully, it worked out for us!

I clicked on this expecting to see hot girlfriend pictures. Enjoy your downvote.

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In the 6 Super Bowl wins together, only once did the Patriots have a scoring offense ranked higher than their scoring defense….

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I think some people would say it might have helped that the coach named Bill Belichick had a GM who, coincidentally, had the same exact name as him and they were able to prioritize defensive free agent signings for twenty consecutive seasons. 19, if you subtract the one season they signed an aging but awesome Randy Moss.

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You actually just made the argument against Brady. 505 yards and he lost because his defense didn’t carry him. Any idiot that calls Brady the goat after he got thoroughly outplayed by Eli Manning TWICE and put up only 14 points in that first SB shouldn’t talk football anymore.

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I’m confused. You do realize Tom Brady didn’t play defense, right? Just to explain: football is what is called a “team game.” Tom put up 505 yards, three TDs and zero picks. They ran for over five yards per carry and had over 600 yards of total offense. Defense couldn’t carry him? Maybe you shouldn’t talk football, anymore. It’s a team game. He didn’t play defense. Bill and the defense couldn’t stop Nick Foles.

Also, he didn’t lose to Eli Manning. He lost to the elite Giants defenses led by Michael Strahan, Justin Tuck, etc. Once again, I don’t think Eli Manning played defense.