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384 — Daddy's Way
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Ty & Eric resurrect their lo-fi vibe and discuss Blackstone’s purchase of Jersey Mike’s, overdosing on estrogen at Subway, the persecution of vegetarians, why the elderly should all be sandwich artists, whether there is more micro plastic in the sandwich or the sandwich packaging, betting it all on Black Friday, Ty’s visit to Daddy’s Grill, hiring talent from the best sandwich-making cultures, and a fascinating discovery with Subway’s name.
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Transcript
Intro
00:00:06
thinkfresh
What is going on?
Remote Recording Nostalgia
00:00:08
thinkfresh
Breadheads, Tai and I are back for another beautiful episode of Think Fresh. However, today, Tai, we're, we're kicking it old school.
The Oddity of Distant Togetherness
00:00:16
thinkfresh
We're going back to our root style.
00:00:16
tyfresh
Mm-hmm.
00:00:18
thinkfresh
We're keeping it low-fi.
00:00:20
tyfresh
That's right. A little bit of grit just builds character. So Ty and Erica are back on the AirPod ones, recorded remotely. It feels weird to be together apart.
00:00:30
tyfresh
I think I should mask up for this.
00:00:32
thinkfresh
Yeah, dude, no kidding. Wow. It's kind of, yeah, you're right. It throws it back to, uh, the days where we would have to, you know, strategically hang out with friends and do so, you know, without the blessing of the law.
Thrill of 'Illegal Hangouts'
00:00:45
tyfresh
Mm-hmm. Dude, the illegal hangouts made them all the more thrilling. Nothing makes you more closer to your to ah like a band of band of boys than knowing you're not allowed to be together.
00:00:58
thinkfresh
Yeah, dude, that's the best part of it all, actually. It's kind of like our version of prohibition in a sense.
00:01:01
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:01:06
tyfresh
It is actually, except you just weren't allowed to kiss in public, you know? They got rid of the hugging.
00:01:12
thinkfresh
yeah dude we we've digressed
00:01:16
tyfresh
Wow.
Lo-fi Indifference and Payday
00:01:17
tyfresh
But here we are, we are back, but we don't, I don't even care that this is a lo-fi epi because it's Friday. It's like not just Friday, but it's the last Friday of the month, Eric.
00:01:27
tyfresh
So happy payday to all those that observed that, which probably very few of our listeners are on ah any sort of payroll. Um, but if you are, shout out to you.
00:01:37
thinkfresh
Yeah, dude, we've digressed.
00:01:39
tyfresh
Um, if not, so sorry to hear that.
00:01:43
thinkfresh
Yeah, well, breadheads, if you are looking for a job, we are hiring for an unpaid position. It is content creator, meme officer, CMO, if you if
Humorous Job Postings
00:01:55
thinkfresh
you will. And um also, if you'd like to, I don't know, maybe do our laundry, that would be welcome as well.
00:02:03
tyfresh
Yep. There's a few different KLOs. There's the laundry indicator, there's the laugh indicator, and then there's the love indicator. and those ah Those are the three, they're like the KPIs and the KLIs.
00:02:19
thinkfresh
I love that tie. Yeah. If you can't warm our hearts and make our bellies jiggle, then there's no place for you at ThinkFresh Studios.
00:02:29
tyfresh
Dude, I'm like five Guinness away from having a nice jiggly belly for the holiday season. I think I need to put some weight on. It's like method acting in a way. You want to embody the spirit of the season. So you need to put on a few pounds so you can ho, ho, ho your way through the holidays.
00:02:48
thinkfresh
That's right. Uh, Tai and I are both recording in our cars. However, I'm noticing that, like, the car is moving a lot quicker without you in it. Tai, that Guinness gut of yours is slowing this whip down, dude. My mouths for gallons shot up.
00:03:03
tyfresh
Wow. Yeah, dude, I got all that. When did they talk about all that junk inside that trunk? They ain't talking about a literal trunk.
00:03:11
thinkfresh
Yeah.
00:03:11
tyfresh
They're talking about that giat.
00:03:14
thinkfresh
And... Yeah, when they say junk, they're not talking about our literal junk, which is our merch.
00:03:21
tyfresh
What you gonna buy with all that money? It's all that junk inside our site.
00:03:25
thinkfresh
Yeah. And make sure you use that code guys, breadhead or 10% off, shop.thinkfreshpodcast.com. Bless the boys for Christmas. New merch coming soon. Watch this space. This will be huge, Ty.
00:03:40
tyfresh
I want to be someone's Secret Santa, finally.
00:03:43
thinkfresh
Finally, right? One day, Ty, you will be.
Corporate Acquisitions in Sandwich World
00:03:45
thinkfresh
Don't worry. yeah
00:03:48
tyfresh
Speaking of buying things, Eric, are you familiar with the evil corporate overlords known as Black Rock? like
00:04:00
thinkfresh
umm Unfortunately, I'm all too familiar with them. ah They are in charge of my entire life savings. So, yes.
00:04:07
tyfresh
Mm-hmm. Yeah, they're responsible for too many funds, but, or sorry, Blackstone. Blackstone and Blackrock are very similar.
00:04:15
thinkfresh
Oh.
00:04:18
thinkfresh
They're almost the exact same, you might say, but I don't know Blackstone. I only know ah know hard hard rock Hard Rock and Cold Stone Creamery.
00:04:24
tyfresh
Hard for the hard rock part.
00:04:27
thinkfresh
Those are the only ones I know.
00:04:28
tyfresh
Yes, yes. um Well, Black, all of stone has done another acquisition. one of these big institutions are making big plays.
00:04:40
thinkfresh
Oh.
00:04:40
tyfresh
And this was the purchase of known subway ops, Jersey Mikes.
00:04:46
thinkfresh
Oh, yes. I think we reported on this when it happened. This is the same. This is the same company that you're talking about, or did they get reacquired?
00:04:54
tyfresh
No, this is a sell off. ah Jersey Mikes was owned by a different group and now they've already flipped it for a cool eight billy to Blackstone.
00:04:57
thinkfresh
Oh.
00:05:04
thinkfresh
Oh, shit.
00:05:05
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:05:06
thinkfresh
That's pretty good. And I've i've actually, like, noticed, uh, you said Jimmy John's.
00:05:13
tyfresh
Jersey Mike's.
00:05:15
thinkfresh
Jersey. Fuck, sorry.
00:05:15
tyfresh
There's too many, this is crazy. There's too many hedge funds with the same name and too many sandwich restaurants with the same name. There's some brand new problem in both industries.
00:05:25
thinkfresh
Dude, guys named John, Jeff, Jersey, they all love sandwiches, okay?
00:05:30
tyfresh
Dude, they're in the C-suite and they're hungry.
00:05:33
thinkfresh
Yeah. they They live in Jersey as well, probably.
00:05:37
tyfresh
Likely.
00:05:38
thinkfresh
So anyways, keep going. Tell me more about Jersey Mike's and how they sold the sub.
00:05:44
tyfresh
Yeah, the they did jump the sub.
00:05:46
thinkfresh
They jumped the sub, Ty.
00:05:49
tyfresh
they there They are now have new corporate overlords that are even more overlordy than before. And I just feel like this,
00:05:59
thinkfresh
Oh no, not that Jacob overlordies.
Impact of Corporate Ownership on Sandwich Artistry
00:06:01
tyfresh
the Jacob, very good.
00:06:03
tyfresh
I think just like the institutional ownership in Big Sandwich is probably taking away from the sense of craft and artistry that um we're looking for between our bread. And like, we're feeling this with Subway too. They just got picked up by whatever that other company was last year. And we're getting nothing but like junk meat, like gart garbage food out ah out of it now, you know?
00:06:31
thinkfresh
Mm-hmm. Junk meat and, um I mean, there this is a topic for another day, but no longer hiring young ah adults who are looking to break through the workforce, hiring, you know, cheap outside labor, immigrants type. What can you do about it?
00:06:51
tyfresh
Well, ah that's that's but that's a challenge for our elected officials to resolve. And I think they have some solutions.
00:06:58
thinkfresh
That's right. A podcast can only do so much.
Hiring Practices in Sandwich Shops
00:07:03
tyfresh
Well, I think that all sandwich institutions should hire exclusively over 50. There's so much ageism in other workforces. And sandwich making is something that takes a lifetime to master. So why don't we hire the people?
00:07:19
tyfresh
that have spent a lifetime making sandwiches.
00:07:24
thinkfresh
Okay, what wait, what what's your suggestion? Who who has spent a lifetime making sound with you?
00:07:29
tyfresh
Just like old people, like old people just by the nature of being have probably, yeah, they've just ran ran the numbers up. Like their PR for number of sandwiches is way higher than mine, even though I love them, just because they've had so much more time at the table, time in the kitchen,
00:07:45
thinkfresh
who
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tyfresh
time touching the bread.
00:07:52
thinkfresh
No, I totally get it, dude. Bread Touch Time is another KPI at, I think, fresh LLC.
00:07:57
tyfresh
it
00:07:59
thinkfresh
And um I think we need to also like hire places, hire people from places that sandwiches are an art form as well, like Italy, um Portugal, maybe even Mexico.
00:08:13
thinkfresh
They they like holding various meats between a tortilla. yeah I mean, these are all similar transferable skills. And I just don't know if the current workforce we have is trained in the same way
00:08:22
tyfresh
Mm hmm.
00:08:29
thinkfresh
It's definitely not in their biology is what I'm trying to say.
00:08:31
tyfresh
Right, right. You're saying that they're like incorrectly favoring countries and cultures that care more about things in bowls than things between bread.
00:08:40
thinkfresh
Yeah. Yeah. They like slop is what I'm trying to say.
00:08:44
tyfresh
Right. And there's like maybe not a transferable skill there.
00:08:48
thinkfresh
I don't think so.
00:08:50
tyfresh
Interesting take.
00:08:52
thinkfresh
Yeah.
00:08:53
tyfresh
I'm going to have to sit with that one for a little bit.
Conspiracy Theories and Humor in Sandwich Shops
00:08:55
tyfresh
um Blackstone, ever since they bought Jersey Mikes, the other thing that I've been noticing is that Jersey Mikes, I think Jersey Mikes and Blackstone have, they yeah they bought them, this is a bit of a conspiracy, so put your tinfoil hat on, Eric.
00:09:10
tyfresh
um I think all of these big hedge funds are trying to make humankind weaker so that they're more subservient so that would like we can return back to an era of serfdom.
00:09:22
tyfresh
And one of the ways that Jersey Mike's make sandwiches is after you make your order, they take the receipt and they put it on the bread so they know which what toppings to put in which and bread.
00:09:35
tyfresh
Are you familiar with this practice?
00:09:36
thinkfresh
Tell me more, Ty.
00:09:38
tyfresh
Yeah, so they're just laying a nice, warm piece of receipt paper Like it's the first ingredient in your sandwich. Granted it is removed, but it still makes contact. It's got BTT time of like a minute.
00:09:53
thinkfresh
I get what you're saying. So you're saying that, you know, the receipt contact time is potentially causing a spike in estrogen.
00:10:03
tyfresh
Exactly. You know exactly what I'm talking about. We all know that receipt touch time leads to man titties. it's theres There's scientific evidence. And I'm worried that like Jersey Mike's is turning all of their consumers into Jersey Mikellas.
00:10:24
thinkfresh
I want to tell the jersey, Nicola, you have to explain that one to me a bit further.
00:10:29
tyfresh
and That was the closest I can think of as a female Mike with the high estrogen levels.
00:10:32
thinkfresh
but um Not Michelle.
00:10:35
tyfresh
Oh yeah, that makes more sense.
00:10:35
thinkfresh
I see what you're saying.
00:10:36
tyfresh
Jersey Michelle.
00:10:39
thinkfresh
Yeah, I've noticed this as well. Do you think look good, all good sandwich restaurants have an element of receipt play in the creation process? Like Subway as well has the receipt kind of following the sub down the line if you think about it. I don't know if there's like real contact made but it is touching the surface the cutting surface and maybe that's enough to you know buy um there's like a transfer of bacteria or something getting into the bread itself. I don't think the paper's doing enough to defend it.
00:11:15
tyfresh
Absolutely not like when I this is one of the biggest problems with online ordering like if we didn't have already enough With online shopping. We're recording this on Black Friday the worst day of the year objectively and but happy payday and
00:11:32
thinkfresh
Wow, dude, there's a divine, yeah there really is a divine, like, you know, frequency out there that is aligning Black Friday with Payday. think I just, I'm so happy that we're being looked after.
00:11:45
tyfresh
Yeah, it's meant to be. Money goes in, money goes out.
Environmental Concerns of Sandwich Wrappers
00:11:50
tyfresh
But all these online ordering situations, that's where the receipts come from because they need to take it off screen onto this warm plastic and then rub that warm plastic all over the bread counter.
00:12:03
tyfresh
If I'm ordering in person, Eric, I am the receipt. I don't need a receipt because I said it out loud and I watched them immediately
00:12:09
thinkfresh
hey
00:12:11
tyfresh
do perform an action based on my command. the The feedback loop is so tight no paper is needed in the process.
00:12:21
thinkfresh
Yeah, I don't see why paper is needed at all either, um except for when the online orders come through, because I think that's kind of the main reason why um You have people reading from the instruction sheet.
00:12:35
thinkfresh
Although I would like to experiment with handing my sandwich artist a note, much like if I was robbing a bank.
00:12:36
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:12:42
thinkfresh
Like, you don't want to say that out loud, right? Like, if you have an embarrassing order, like, you might want to just slide slide the post-it note over and be like, you know, put the sandwich in the bag.
00:12:44
tyfresh
Right. Yeah, that's the only way I'll ever be ordering the tuna. Or the egg salad.
00:13:00
thinkfresh
who you can never really say that out out loud especially like if you have too many like burly frontline workers near you like they might just like rob you in the parking lot who yeah um yeah so so what do we do about this time what is what is the solution here do we
00:13:09
tyfresh
Mm hmm.
00:13:13
tyfresh
Yeah, you're there you're clearly a mark after that, hey? Like, wow, that guy's low-hanging fruit for a quick mugging. They're mean mugging you. Yikes.
00:13:31
thinkfresh
Can you abstain from using the subway paper?
00:13:36
tyfresh
Do you think the subway paper itself has plastic in it? Or do you think it's like pure paper?
00:13:44
thinkfresh
I don't want get the vibe that it's biodegradable. That's what you're asking.
00:13:48
tyfresh
No. Well, I don't think so either. Cause if there's plastic in the yoga mat bread, then why wouldn't there be plastic in the paper?
00:13:56
thinkfresh
Yeah, the paper seems like a good place to start.
00:13:58
tyfresh
Like that would be, yeah. I bet you there's plastic in every single ingredient by design, like not even like microplastics leaching in, it's like intentionally supplemented with plastic.
00:14:12
thinkfresh
Yeah. No, I think there is something there.
00:14:14
tyfresh
Mm-hmm.
00:14:14
thinkfresh
Like, how do you, um, like all the, like organic, natural, like supplies out there, they're all brown, right? Like and even the napkins at Subway, they're like a brown color because you could just like throw them in a, in a national park and then it'll just dissolve.
00:14:32
thinkfresh
Like you don't need to worry about that, right?
00:14:34
tyfresh
who
00:14:35
thinkfresh
When you're hiking, you can just throw it off the cliff and it'll just evaporate into nature. It's all good. um But the paper itself is a crisp white color with green and yellow monogram prints on it. like how does that How does that happen? like Is a laser jet capable of just lasering a color into a paper? How does that work? How do printers work?
00:14:58
tyfresh
Yeah, I don't really know how printers work. It's actually, they're mind boggling, dude.
00:15:02
thinkfresh
Yeah, because it's not ink, right?
00:15:02
tyfresh
ah
00:15:04
thinkfresh
I'm pretty sure of that.
00:15:06
tyfresh
Well, if it was ink, wouldn't it get all over me when I rub it on me? Like I rub it on my fingers when my fingers turn green.
00:15:12
thinkfresh
You're always rubbing the sandwich paper on you and I always have to stop you. ah Can't bring this guy anywhere.
00:15:19
tyfresh
Damn. Yeah, I wouldn't want to shrek myself by accident because I get the the green and yellow rubbed all into my skin.
00:15:27
thinkfresh
Yeah, absolutely. And the mustard, mustard would get in the pants, but that wouldn't be good either.
00:15:32
tyfresh
Damn, that's not a good look. So I'm not really sure how that's done.
00:15:35
thinkfresh
No.
00:15:37
tyfresh
It has to be a dye of some sort, or maybe there's like a laser hitting it that causes the napkin electrodes to, maybe they stimulate the electrode a little bit, riz it up, and that's how you get green.
00:15:58
thinkfresh
Whoa. I kind of fuck with that, to be honest.
00:16:04
tyfresh
I have no idea though. This isn't, this is a pseudoscience podcast. Nothing we say is real. It's all satire.
00:16:10
thinkfresh
We're not experts, okay? um Only thing we're experts on is eating the sandwich and ordering the sandwich.
00:16:17
tyfresh
who Yeah, that's a fact.
00:16:17
thinkfresh
Not in that order.
00:16:21
tyfresh
I had a pretty weird meal the other day, Eric. I ah went to a ah restaurant called Daddy's Grill.
00:16:24
thinkfresh
Yeah.
00:16:29
thinkfresh
Oh, no. Oh, no.
00:16:33
tyfresh
Daddy's Grill. Have you heard of it?
00:16:36
thinkfresh
ah Where is it? Because I might have heard of it.
00:16:41
tyfresh
It's in like downtown Richmond.
00:16:43
thinkfresh
Okay, nevermind. There's a there's a daddy's kitchen on commercial. And I just like could never bring myself to even peruse the menu. It's like, I would always see it on like DoorDash and Just the thought of ordering from somewhere called daddy's kitchen never sat right with me, but I like to know more about what kind of food lands in your plate type.
00:17:07
tyfresh
Yeah, you would be surprised. like I only went there for the pod,
Dining Experience at Daddy's Grill
00:17:11
tyfresh
you know. There was other good restaurants, but this one was the most topical, if you will.
00:17:16
thinkfresh
Oh.
00:17:17
tyfresh
um It's an Iranian restaurant, and you order at the counter.
00:17:22
thinkfresh
oh
00:17:24
tyfresh
They only do a few things. It's kind of like falafel-y platters, you know? Donair, if you will.
00:17:31
thinkfresh
Got it.
00:17:32
tyfresh
Donair-esque, or donair-adjacent. um
00:17:35
thinkfresh
So much like Subway, where the options are bun or bowl, here it's wrap or plate.
00:17:41
tyfresh
more or less.
00:17:43
thinkfresh
Nice.
00:17:43
tyfresh
And if you order it as a plate, they still give you the wrap. Just on the side.
00:17:47
thinkfresh
Dude, that's the best part. That's the best part, bro. Like, why would you ever get a wrap when you can get way more onto a plate and then also have the wrap on the side?
00:17:56
tyfresh
Yeah, it's like when they ask if you want a gift wrap to the store and you're like, I can do it myself.
00:18:03
tyfresh
Take the power into your own hands.
00:18:03
thinkfresh
Yeah, just give me the product and the wrapping paper separate.
00:18:09
thinkfresh
Perfect.
00:18:09
tyfresh
and I'll take care of this.
00:18:10
tyfresh
So I go up to the counter at daddy's grill. I looked down at the menu and of like the 20 items on their menu, there's not a single vegetarian option.
00:18:19
thinkfresh
What? Not even falafel?
00:18:21
tyfresh
Nothing, not even a falafel. So not even a side dish, Eric. So I asked the, I asked the, the lovely hostess, I say, I am a vegetarian.
00:18:31
tyfresh
What do you, what do I do here? And then you know what she does? She laughs in my face.
00:18:39
tyfresh
This is the type of, it's, I feel persecuted, Eric.
00:18:40
thinkfresh
I mean, I would too.
00:18:44
thinkfresh
Wow. Sorry to hear that, man. That sounds pretty traumatizing to have daddy laugh in your face like that.
00:18:50
tyfresh
But daddy, dude, you know, I can, how do I just earn the affection of any daddy?
00:18:50
thinkfresh
So you're not even a... I just want to know that I'm a good boy.
00:19:01
thinkfresh
Damn, dude. I'm sorry to hear that, man.
00:19:02
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:19:03
thinkfresh
So when you went up there, did you bring that energy?
00:19:04
tyfresh
Yeah. So.
00:19:06
thinkfresh
Were you like, hey, daddy? Like, can I have a veggie option here? Or was it a woman?
00:19:12
tyfresh
I was, it was a woman.
00:19:12
thinkfresh
You said it was a woman, didn't you?
00:19:14
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:19:15
thinkfresh
Wow.
00:19:15
tyfresh
I had to call her daddy.
00:19:17
thinkfresh
Oh shit.
00:19:19
tyfresh
Oh shit. I came.
00:19:20
thinkfresh
So how did that, how did that go for you?
00:19:21
tyfresh
What? Yeah. After the laugh, I, I wasn't going to go down without a fight. So I doubled down. I say, come on. There's got to be something you can do for me. You know what she says? No.
00:19:33
thinkfresh
Wow.
00:19:34
tyfresh
Wow. So you know what I do?
00:19:36
thinkfresh
Not even like the chicken plate hold the chicken. You can't even do that.
00:19:40
tyfresh
Well, then I started throwing options at them. I'm like, I'll eat sides. I'll eat anything sub-meat, whatever you can do. And then I turn on the charm a bit too, wrist or up, you know? Like, come on. You know, what we we both want me to be here. Like, this is good for us.
00:19:56
thinkfresh
Yeah, man. You want some customers or not, bitch?
00:19:59
tyfresh
Yeah, leaning into some of my artist manipulation tactics.
00:20:04
thinkfresh
More olives.
00:20:06
tyfresh
Mm-hmm.
00:20:06
thinkfresh
Keep going.
00:20:06
tyfresh
So, ah more, more, more.
00:20:12
tyfresh
And it worked here. I turned her around.
00:20:13
thinkfresh
Oh.
00:20:14
tyfresh
She said, we'll take care of you. And I said, what are you going to make for me? And she said, just go sit down.
00:20:20
thinkfresh
Oh, dude, that's awesome.
00:20:21
tyfresh
Yeah. And I got, it was very expensive for some reason.
00:20:22
thinkfresh
Did you get like a $50 bill after?
00:20:27
tyfresh
It was like 25 bucks a plate, just silly for what I got, which was a giant platter with rice salad, two cups of tzatziki, a piece of Dan bread.
00:20:28
thinkfresh
Damn. yeah
00:20:39
tyfresh
And then like a single roasted tomato.
00:20:45
thinkfresh
ah Well, I got to give them N.A. for trying. It feels like they, I don't know, did they market themselves as like a carnivore place? Because I'm surprised to hear there's no falafel. There's no tofu even. You know what I mean? Seems kind of strange.
00:21:04
tyfresh
Yeah, not even a not even seafood, but then I remembered that Iran is kind of landlocked, so that makes sense.
00:21:10
thinkfresh
the Yeah, true.
00:21:16
tyfresh
But i'm I was still satisfied with it. I got through the experience, Eric. All daddies are carnivores, so it makes sense.
00:21:21
thinkfresh
That's good.
00:21:24
tyfresh
I should have seen it coming.
00:21:24
thinkfresh
Hmm. Yeah. No, I think you should have seen it coming as well. We went to daddy's grill expecting a veggie burger.
00:21:34
tyfresh
You never know. It's a grill, man. Like you can grill anything.
00:21:37
thinkfresh
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:39
tyfresh
Why limit yourself?
00:21:42
thinkfresh
Wow. Well, that, this only confirms my bias that daddy's kitchen is not worth going to in commercial.
00:21:49
tyfresh
No.
00:21:51
thinkfresh
CEO of Daddy's Kitchen, if you're listening, come on the pod, explain yourself.
00:21:55
tyfresh
isn't Yeah. We're open to hearing a counter case here.
00:22:02
thinkfresh
Dude, naming your restaurant is like probably the most important thing you can do at a restaurant. Like I don't even care what the lighting situation is. If it has a shitty name, I ain't going, you know?
00:22:14
tyfresh
1000% completely agree with this take, Eric. It means everything because the name is like, you have to say it out loud at some point. Oh, where'd you go for dinner last night? If it's a shitty name, I don't even want to tell you. So I'm not going to go there. I don't, it just, it says everything about like, if you don't care about your name, you don't care about anything else.
00:22:36
thinkfresh
me Yeah, just like, you know, sending out a plate of food, you need to like, have some taste. You know what I mean? Like, you got to taste the food and you got to have a good taste when it comes to choosing a name.
00:22:50
thinkfresh
It
Importance of Restaurant Naming
00:22:50
thinkfresh
seems like not enough places care about that.
00:22:50
tyfresh
Like
00:22:52
thinkfresh
And I at some point, I got to type it into Google maps. And if it's too long, or Sounds weird. I don't know. You've kind of, you've lost me. I'm going in with a bad taste in my mouth. No pun intended.
00:23:05
tyfresh
yeah dude so so bad like a New restaurant and just opened in my neighborhood. and I think it's called something like Italian kitchen cafe or something.
00:23:16
thinkfresh
Great.
00:23:17
tyfresh
Yeah, and they made each word a different color of the Italian flag. And I can just tell that this isn't going to offer me a very neither traditional nor fresh take on what Italian food is is going to be the worst past of my life.
00:23:34
thinkfresh
Yeah, I agree with you. The other thing that is, maybe I'm being nitpicky, Ty, but if you go to a restaurant that is like French or, I don't know, Spanish or something like that, where it's the name of the restaurants in a different language, if it's like, if I got to like really strain myself to pronoun pronounce it correctly, it's also kind of a flag. Like, um I'm thinking of like Au Comptoir on Westforth, like,
00:24:03
thinkfresh
I want to send more people there, but I hate having to like pause and really think about how I'm going to pronounce their name. Same with Pho. I never say Pho anymore. I just say Pho. Fuck it. You want Pho? That is what it is. Exactly.
00:24:22
tyfresh
So I think I agree here because you are putting the burden on your Western customers to then like, risk embarrassing themselves with a mispronunciation.
00:24:34
thinkfresh
Mm-hmm
00:24:35
tyfresh
Like why do you want to burden your customers with that?
00:24:38
thinkfresh
Yeah, Yeah
00:24:39
tyfresh
The other thing that drives me crazy, Eric, is when restaurants name their restaurant in a different language, but they pick a really generic word. Like it just is like kitchen in French or like all, all comptois is just, I think that's the table, you know?
00:24:55
tyfresh
like boring. I don't know how many restaurants that I've seen that called themselves like uh like mange like eat. Cucina you know it's just called Cucina that's just kitchen in Italian.
00:25:05
thinkfresh
who Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:09
thinkfresh
No, you're totally right.
00:25:09
tyfresh
Like they're like hiding the fact that they don't even have a name by giving their name just ah a generic word in a different language.
00:25:18
tyfresh
It's a cop-out.
00:25:20
thinkfresh
100%. Also, I don't know if we've talked about this already, but a lot of like Asian spots, They have the naming system down perfectly out there.
00:25:32
tyfresh
easy
00:25:32
thinkfresh
And I'll tell you why. They just have the best dish in the name of the restaurant.
00:25:35
tyfresh
Mm hmm. Mm hmm. They're like, this is our thing. Come here for this dish.
00:25:40
thinkfresh
Yeah.
00:25:40
tyfresh
It's so smart.
00:25:41
thinkfresh
Yeah, exactly. Like if it's a, if you go to a banh mi spot, it'll say banh mi in the name or fo or bun cha. You know what I'm saying? Like it'll, it'll kind of tells you what to order in the name.
00:25:54
thinkfresh
So when you're sitting down looking at the 80 pages menu, You don't even have to look at it. You just say like, let me get the house special. but' You're good to go.
00:26:03
tyfresh
For sure, like, and it also makes the small talk a little bit easier afterwards. It's like, where'd you go for dinner last night? Oh, I went to tofu soup. You don't even need to ask what you got there. Obviously I got the tofu soup.
00:26:16
thinkfresh
Yeah, it simplifies the entire interaction.
00:26:19
tyfresh
Mm hmm.
00:26:20
thinkfresh
Although the one outlier tie is I went to a Banh Mi place with, I guess it was like they moved locations or they like, it's a second location or something. And they had two in the name. It was like a sequel.
00:26:32
tyfresh
Oh, cool.
00:26:33
thinkfresh
Yeah, it's actually probably the best banh mi I've ever had.
00:26:33
tyfresh
Second iteration.
00:26:36
thinkfresh
And it's at Banh Mi Thai Hang 2 on King's Way.
00:26:41
tyfresh
That's what you're doing, dude. Second episode of the week. Thai hing too.
00:26:44
thinkfresh
Whoa, hanging with Thai twice.
00:26:47
tyfresh
Let's go.
00:26:48
thinkfresh
whoa that's pretty cool but yeah they're like i was like why is there a number two in this and like yeah actually i just realized something you're right i just realized something maybe if there's two locations you ever just like type in the name of the restaurant and then get directions to the wrong one because i've had that happen especially since me and you don't live in the city center anymore like you probably get directions to like the one out east
00:26:53
tyfresh
Because that's what you're going to be making afterwards.
00:27:10
tyfresh
who
00:27:16
tyfresh
Right, right, you're gonna actually go to the like the location that's distilled down for suburban families.
00:27:22
thinkfresh
Yeah, exactly. They have a nice big wide parking lot.
00:27:25
tyfresh
Yeah, brighter lights, wider booths, you get crayons with your table, yeah.
00:27:28
thinkfresh
Yeah, kids made you.
00:27:33
thinkfresh
Yeah, that's kind of nice. Maybe they've just, you know, maybe they're just living in 2040 and us dumb American Canadians have to adapt, you know?
00:27:43
tyfresh
one hundred percent
Subway's Iconic Name in Fast Food
00:27:45
tyfresh
100%. Subway actually follows the nomenclature of Asian cuisine because if I said that I went to McDonald's, do you know what I ate? You have no idea what I ate. There's so many options there. But if I went to Subway,
00:28:00
tyfresh
You know exactly what I ate. Bro, I ate a sandwich. I eat a subway sandwich. They have, their sandwiches are so iconic that their name of the restaurant is the food. You're eating a subway.
00:28:13
thinkfresh
well Whoa. Dude, on that bombshell tie, I think we've got to end. I'm going to end this episode on that bombshell.
00:28:19
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:28:20
thinkfresh
That was, that's a revelation that I didn't know I walked, I didn't know I walked myself into that, but I'm glad I did.
00:28:22
tyfresh
qui That's a revelation. Quit while we're ahead.
00:28:28
tyfresh
Yeah.
00:28:28
thinkfresh
And I stay learning something new on this podcast every, every week with you. So thank you.
00:28:33
tyfresh
Mm-hmm. You're welcome. It's hard to do your own research. It's easy with somebody else.
00:28:39
thinkfresh
Right. This is a double think podcast.
00:28:41
tyfresh
Mm-hmm. Yeah, we really are thinking twice.
00:28:46
thinkfresh
Yeah, think twice, eat once.
00:28:50
tyfresh
That's cool. Think twice, chew once. That's good. That's a good like principle for sandwi sandwich making at Subway Lake. Just think twice as you're making it.
00:29:03
tyfresh
just but see Actually, it starts at like yeah inception of the idea of you going, you're already down bad if you walk in those doors.
00:29:03
thinkfresh
Yeah, think twice about going to subway, that's for sure. Yeah.
00:29:16
thinkfresh
I mean, yeah, going, deciding to eat at Subway, you're operating at a loss. So you have to, you know, get a sandwich that will elevate you beyond, you know, the baseline. That is the human, human journey, if you think about it, human experience.
00:29:27
tyfresh
Yeah, dude.
00:29:30
tyfresh
it's It's the lunchtime equivalent of when you like take money out of an ATM at the casino, you're planning to gamble 50 bucks, but it costs you $10 to take it out. So you're already 20% down before you even hit the blackjack table.
00:29:48
thinkfresh
ah Happens to the best of us time.
00:29:50
tyfresh
It does.
00:29:50
thinkfresh
No one ever wants to admit that they're down 20 before you you know touching the if you're not betting it all on black today, you're you're an idiot Shit
00:29:55
tyfresh
Mm-hmm. Wow, for Black Friday, casinos should get rid of the greens. You know, improve the odds just a little bit. You're an idiot. It's Black Friday, baby.
00:30:14
thinkfresh
well, happy shopping happy shopping to the to the breadheads out there. Make sure you spend some of that hard-earned cash with us and keep this podcast alive.
00:30:22
tyfresh
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you are responsible for our success and only you so.
00:30:31
thinkfresh
Yeah. Yeah. Breadheads, thanks for listening. Ty, thanks for podcasting with me and have a great weekend.
00:30:42
tyfresh
Thanks for listening to breadheads. Ciao.
00:30:44
thinkfresh
Ciao.