A former waitress at my work was in a 4 year relationship with a guy who was grossing 1-2 thousand ish a month (so net average net would have been $1000 AUD) drop shipping. Instead of expanding his revenue by scamming more people, he was using that money (and some of his day job money) to buy view and comment bots for his YT and Instagram videos on how anyone can be an entrepreneur while plugging his Patreon (or Ko-Fi? Something like that, I sort of zone out when he talked). He also has lifestyle advice, surprsingly. Very early on the Tesla bandwagon in Australia. In the end he was making negative money from the "side gigs" because he would renta Maserati or an Air Bed and Breakfast by the ocean or some dumb shit like that for YT thumbnails and Instagram stories/posts. She estimated he was getting 22k views on average, of which around 20k was botted.
He genuinely thought he was destined to be a slightly less shitty Andrew Tate combined with Jeff Bezos. He was like "nah if I had what Tate has, I wouldn't be so disrespectful to women" owing to being the only son and youngest child overall to a single mother, completely missing the part where a core part of Tate's audience thrives on the hardcore misogyny. He thought if Bezos gave investing and lifestyle advice people would like him more but he's keeping it a secret. Like he didn't understand that Tate was a grifter whilst attempting to launch a career as a diet grifter. He was missing the part where grifters will say things they don't actually mean or don't care about for more money.
Just had a look, the nearest 3 Pizzas Hut to me do not have a dine in area. The old Greek guy's Pizza Hut with the classic Pizza Hut roof in a standalone building truly was a critically endangered subspecies.
I wonder if he would have been more successful if opened any other form of restaurant, he seemed to genuinely derive pride from his Pizza Hut and it's cleanliness and efficiency. I've definitely worked for dodgier restaurant owners with way more financial success.
There was a Pizza Hut like 45kms away from me that was getting like 4-5 star reviews and it turns out the old Greek franchise owner (for some reason) really cared about his Pizza Hut's reputation and worked tirelessly on making it clean and enjoyable for families to dine in at (???) to the point where it was detrimentental to other Pizzas Hut. Like people in my area were checking out this mysterious 4.2/5 rated Pizza Hut 45km away instead of the one 2km away with a solid 3/5 rating.
My old housemate asked if I wanted to go on a 90km round trip to visit this Pizza Hut for lunch, and so I went to check it out and the old guy was cleaning windows after he served us. Shit that would be delegated to high schoolers at other fast food restauranrs. After he retired in 2018, the new owners ran it into the ground in less than a year and I think the building is a Guzman y Gomez today.
The only other Pizzas Hut I've seen that are busy with dine in are back home in China
As soy sauce is a fermentation, aging actually rounds out the flavour. It's got more glutemate which is good but in the modern day you can just add MSG for that.
It's like seeing a recipe call for homemade stock. Stock cubes will do fine, I'm not getting a Michelin star whilst drunk at 3 am
Dark soy just has a deeper colour and a lighter flavour, really. A tiny bit sweeter, too. So many Chinese recipes will be like "and add dark soy for colour!" and I'm like... I'm not doing that.
Other rice wines are a decent sub. Shaoxing arbitrarily contains wheat due to traditions that has very little effect on the end product, which became an issue when I started cooking for a celiac.
A former waitress at my work was in a 4 year relationship with a guy who was grossing 1-2 thousand ish a month (so net average net would have been $1000 AUD) drop shipping. Instead of expanding his revenue by scamming more people, he was using that money (and some of his day job money) to buy view and comment bots for his YT and Instagram videos on how anyone can be an entrepreneur while plugging his Patreon (or Ko-Fi? Something like that, I sort of zone out when he talked). He also has lifestyle advice, surprsingly. Very early on the Tesla bandwagon in Australia. In the end he was making negative money from the "side gigs" because he would renta Maserati or an Air Bed and Breakfast by the ocean or some dumb shit like that for YT thumbnails and Instagram stories/posts. She estimated he was getting 22k views on average, of which around 20k was botted.
He genuinely thought he was destined to be a slightly less shitty Andrew Tate combined with Jeff Bezos. He was like "nah if I had what Tate has, I wouldn't be so disrespectful to women" owing to being the only son and youngest child overall to a single mother, completely missing the part where a core part of Tate's audience thrives on the hardcore misogyny. He thought if Bezos gave investing and lifestyle advice people would like him more but he's keeping it a secret. Like he didn't understand that Tate was a grifter whilst attempting to launch a career as a diet grifter. He was missing the part where grifters will say things they don't actually mean or don't care about for more money.
It's grifts all the way down.