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Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls by ghaff on Monday October 07, 2019 @09:28AM (#21180509)
I imagine the rents at a lot of these places make it difficult to profitably sell unprepared food--especially things like vegetables as opposed to twee craft honey and the like.
Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls by hanniabu on Monday October 07, 2019 @09:32AM (#21180541)
If it's ingredients that they use anyways then instead of using some back closet for storage they can simply put them out on display.
Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls by Nasrudith on Monday October 07, 2019 @10:06AM (#21180922)
While tidy conceptually I don't think the economics and logistics work for that - retail space is more expensive than storage. Even if the ownership could be worked out to stock the same thing competively it would make more sense to get it from shared storage than use the more expensive retail space.

Said assumption also isn't trivial in terms of "what people want to buy vs what is sold".

Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls by ghaff on Monday October 07, 2019 @10:10AM (#21180967)
There are some specific exceptions. For example, it's not that unusual for "artisan" sandwich places to also sell their bread. But it doesn't really make sense to imagine a pizza place that also had un-prepped mushrooms, green peppers, etc. out on display for separate sale. It's just not their business.
Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls by redisman on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:34PM (#21183613)
A finished "artisan" bread is high value-added product with great margins. Can you also imagine if they selled flour and tried to price it at a similar multiplier as the finished bread