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| ▲ | orangedog an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| It only signals to me that they have other priorities. |
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| ▲ | Draiken an hour ago | parent [-] | | Correct, but they own a coffee shop, they aren't building rockets. The menu is definitely a significant part of it. If they can barely do that, then I'm sure they're slacking off on more stuff too. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > The menu is definitely a significant part of it The overlap in skills between photographing your product and being a great barrista aren't obviously overlapping. The takeaway seems to be to remove images from the menu. | | | |
| ▲ | orangedog an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It was just a replacement for those temporary chalkboard menus, the person wo did that previously left. Perhaps she has bad taste but that doesn't mean she was slacking off. Did they spend a lot of time on the chalkboard menus previously? | | |
| ▲ | ssl-3 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Just printing this item was reported in the article as costing $150. How much might it cost to have someone local show up and produce a decent-looking chalkboard display? | | |
| ▲ | skupig 29 minutes ago | parent [-] | | This is what people are actually mad about when businesses use AI art. You claim to live in an artistic community, great, ask your staff if they have any friends who draw who want to come by and make a quick $100. You spent more money on a worse result that alienates your community. |
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| ▲ | Draiken 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Honestly, I'd rather have a word printed doc for the menu than this. It's not that difficult, doesn't require any skills and doesn't take any time. IDK, you own a business and do this sort of stuff and all sorts of red flags go off for me. |
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| ▲ | marssaxman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seems to me it's an indicator that the owner cares more about making and serving food or drink than they do about advertising it. I'd feel differently if some big corporate chain were doing this, but if it's a little "mom & pop"/"hole in the wall" type place, cheap advertising is a neutral-to-positive signal. |
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| ▲ | sega_sai an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Unless they use the time they previously spent making a sign into making a better coffee. |
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| ▲ | jrflowers an hour ago | parent [-] | | How would a coffee shop spend an hour making their coffee better Like you own a coffee shop and you’ve freed up one hour in the 12 weeks before you have to make a new sign, what do you do in that hour that makes the coffee better? | | |
| ▲ | sippingabonedry an hour ago | parent [-] | | Spending the money you would have wasted on a flaky local artist to draw an overpriced disposable sandwich board on better coffee beans. The entitlement is off the charts. The more I read this insanity, the more I hope she printed it at Walmart with a discount coupon. |
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| ▲ | fragmede an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes. It's a sign they spend a lot of effort making good coffee and don't have a lot of effort left over to work on a sign. |
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| ▲ | asdff 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Somehow I don't think that's the tradeoff being made | |
| ▲ | squidsoup an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The environment the coffee is served in is a significant part of the business. | |
| ▲ | krapp an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | They own the business, they don't make the coffee, nor did they make the sign they had earlier. | | |
| ▲ | nrmitchi an hour ago | parent [-] | | > They own the business, they don't make the coffee You might not have spent a lot of time in the world of "small business", but this is hysterically out of touch. | | |
| ▲ | krapp an hour ago | parent [-] | | The article literally mentions that they have baristas, one of whom was making the old menu because they were "aesthetically inclined." This can also be confirmed by looking at the employment section of their website. The owner was not personally either making or serving the coffee. |
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