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Re:Why Restaurants Are So Fucked by RandallBrown on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:36AM (#23049539)
I'm not sure why you couldn't buy 20 cases of pop per day at a big grocery store. There's more than 20 cases of each flavor at my local grocery store and there's lots of other grocery stores nearby that have the same selection.

Also, you're right. Costco exists too.

Re:Why Restaurants Are So Fucked by gladskdks on Saturday May 02, 2020 @05:24AM (#23050525)
A few reasons:

One: the shop often wouldn't let you buy up their whole supply

Two: there are likely other restaurants in the area, so that's 20*N boxes a day

Three: lots of countries have resale laws that prevent this

Four: that's a lot of time to spend every day when you can get a single delivery every week / two weeks instead

Five: the delivery often includes the collection of the used bottles (when using glass) and that otherwise can cost a lot

Re:Why Restaurants Are So Fucked by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:04PM (#23056585)
> One: the shop often wouldn't let you buy up their whole supply

Any half-sane shop would love the giant piles of money you're spending and negotiate a way to get you a nice big supply with an even easier pickup process than filling a cart.

> Two: there are likely other restaurants in the area, so that's 20N boxes a day

Even better. Imagine a shop saying they don't* want to ramp up to selling ten times as much product out of aisle seven with no extra work beyond staying in stock.

> Three: lots of countries have resale laws that prevent this

If you buy a shelf-stable food, you can't resell it? Why would a law like this ever exist?

> Four: that's a lot of time to spend every day when you can get a single delivery every week / two weeks instead

This is a better reason, but you'd think the huge volume of the sale would get you at least a mild price improvement.

> Five: the delivery often includes the collection of the used bottles (when using glass) and that otherwise can cost a lot

If it costs money to set things out for recycling, the local government is doing a bad job.