They spit the wine out because they're not trying to get irrevocably shithammered drunk, which seems like a waste to me but that's the reason. The idea is that you're going to be sipping dozens of wines with cheeses and even if you're only getting a sip each you're going to end up drinking more than a bottle strait to your head so rather than just gulp it all down you spit it out so you can try a lot more combinations and without destroying yourself.
I worked at this place in Oregon that was basically a "wine tasting restaurant". You paid a flat rate of $150 a person, and it included an appetizer, dinner, dessert, and 8 full burgundy glasses of any wine of your choosing. All I did was wash glasses all day. The was a separate dishwasher for everything else.
My Dad works in the business of sparkling wine and Champagne, One of his favorite passtimes is organizing blind champagne tests, with bottles from 10 to 200$, just to show how almost noone ever chooses the expensive one as their favourite, in fact, most award winners in the blind tests are under 50$ 🤣
Hey. Hey. Hey. As a dude in his thirties that spends all his time painting Warhammer and is beginning to flirt with the idea of model trains... hear me out. Sex? Fifteen minutes of fun. Painting little model dudes with big pew-pew guns? HOURS of fun. Also, like, Happy New Year to y'all as well. I'm super happy to have discovered this channel, and Alicia and all that jazz.
15:20 yes but food “markup” is because the chef cooked said food, presented it and made it taste good. But with the wine they just bought the bottle and opened it. So it doesn’t really compare
2 fun facts from Italy about wine: - If you are in Italy near Chieti (A province in Abruzzo) stop by Ortona: there is a fountain from which spills free red wine all year round (I went there once, the wine was actually really good); there are other wine fountains in Italy, but they are only available during certain events. - There is a legend of a ghost living in the cellars of the Castle of Montevecchio, in Tuscany; he was the owner of the castle, a passionate winemaker, and supposedly he inspects the quality of the wine in the cellars and the vineyards of the area.
Honestly, this will probably remain one of my favourite "last thoughts" in a video. Just a bit of perspective and positivity about the whole thing. As annoying or funny as it can be, it's ultimately a harmless hobby on par with the others mentioned. Let people have their fun.
I'm all for letting people enjoy their hobbies, it's when they talk down to people over it that gets me pissed. The reason nobody shits on stuff like model trains the same way is that model train guys don't act like their hobby makes them better, smarter people than you, which is what the stereotypical "wine snob" is doing that everybody hates them for.
@@UrLeingod That's an obvious exception. At the same time, however, you can just choose to not associate with those people. If they're your friend you can talk with them and get them to understand that they sound like a doofus - if not, they probably weren't that good of a friend in the first place.
yeah its easy taking a shit on others hobbys, but Internet Historian is a chad for wraping his content up with pointing a finger back at the viewer and reminding us all that in the end of the day we all freaking weird. Laugh at others is okay as long as you remember to also laugh at yourself, else you might just become the real snoob.
That cog in the knee joke hits home for me cause a friend of mine had to have cogs in his knees because he fell out a window. He’s alright but he hates the knee gears.
Not to mention that now every metal detector will blare out when he goes through it and he'll have to explain why the thingy is beeping around his knee
Hey Alicia. 2023 has been a hell of a year hasn’t it. I am so happy that I discovered your channels so many months ago. Went from having never even heard of you to you being my favorite content creator in such a short time. Happy new year
Customer being all "mayhaps I find a hint of citrus, perchance a metallic tone, like a breeze of dirt in the wind". Meanwhile Alicia holding the bottle, "yeah sure, whatever you say man".
My brother and his wife visited an Italian restaurant on their honeymoon. They were expecting an Olive Garden kind of situation, but it was a five star restaurant that this Italian grandma ran out of a building that used to be a house. They showed up in jeans and band shirts and everyone else was in tuxedos and evening gowns. We joke now that everyone must have thought they were loaded lol.
45:26 Alicia, you just have to steer him toward being a Warhammer models dude instead of a train dude. Much cooler attention to detail, and you can paint Slaaneshi stuff with him then! Oh, also Skaven! And 47:05 "Necrophiles", sit back and crack open a cold one! And they even keep the wine right there for easy access!
I mean it makes sense to me, cause like it's kind of rude to bring in your own food or drink anyways, but if you have a SUPER expensive or special bottle you brought to open, the restaurant will allow it, but it's not gonna drive into their business for allowing it.
Alicia, you missed watching him attempt to open a bottle with a knife/sword…and killed the waiter…and buried another body… Hopefully that doesn’t happen a third time…lol😅😅😅
43:38 this is what people were referring to when they went to a bar and ordered "slops" (not literally but "slops" was the term fot the bar's runoff bucket so everything spilled on the bar that night ended up in it). You only see it in really old books or really accurate period stories because it fell out of favor pretty much as soon as peasants stopped being a thing.
13:45 If water works with any food, then flavored water works as well. Wine is just flavored water at its core, so it pairs. The same goes for any other drink, beer with steak, wine with steak, water with steak, Mountain dew with steak. It's all based on how you view the pairing, does it fit for your taste? If you like both, then they will pair great, so if you like to eat steak and drink milk then they will go hand in hand.
Not related to wine, but to dining (look, I just need a place to put this where other people might feel the same way): My dad doesn't work fine dining, he's lead manager at a Seattle pizza place, but he and his boss treat it like and emulate fine dining to enhance the customer experience. My dad has worked at this place since it was a local chain with like 10 locations all run by the same guy throughout the Seattle metro area, and he delivered for the one in the shitty ghettos of south Everett back then. It was still treated by the community as a fine dining establishment, mainly because the price/quality ratio was high yet respectable, but also because the previous owner put the business in debt to make it look like you were sitting in some Seattle lounge. When the guy sold all his locations to eager managers who wanted to run their own pizza places, they realized he sold them his debts and all rebranded separately from one another to avoid them (you can tell they were all once the same chain because literally they all have the same stereotypical Italian dude mascot on the logo). The one I grew up in (that was bought by family friends who cut dad out of the deal) moved out of its fancy building only a few years after the second floor was added and became a hole-in-the-wall next to the 7/11. The original chef left, and the food quality dipped. My dad left for one of the two Seattle locations that was bought by his current boss, and that place has kept the spirit alive. It isn't "fine dining" large by any means - it looks like a small, hole-in-the-wall eatery as soon as you walk in - but it's bigger than you would expect, having 2 banquet rooms and 2 primary dining areas. Boss man even set up a game room with free video games and table hockey for the kids (man's got a Playstation in there, he's really trying). My dad has taken to watering the plants, so they suddenly started overgrowing their pots and looking actually respectable. The only real downside is that people with fragile egos, such as dad, let the "fine dining" atmosphere go to their head and suddenly they act like they're hot shit because they "work for a multi-million dollar dining establishment". Dude, you manage a pizza place that a man living in a $2 mil waterfront property is only just above breaking even on by overworking and criminally underpaying you and the rest of your employees. You make $19/hour without tips. When your income can move us out of this rv and buy a modest home, I'll change my stance. But functioning like fine dining and actually being fine dining are not the same thing. People who work true fine dining can comfortably afford an apartment in Seattle.
Happy new year Alicia. I started watching you late 2023 it was on your first Internet historian video and I haven't looked back since, you are one of the best UA-camrs I have watched and can't wait to see what else you plan to watch in the new year 🎊
39:44 Something that IH doesn't convey well: In a restaurant where they present the bottle to you before opening and then pour a small amount to taste, the point is only for you to verify it is the bottle you ordered before they open it, and to check that the wine has not gone off. Unless one of those things is an issue, the only polite thing to do is quickly nod and let the server get on with their job of serving.
Reminds me when our family went to a restaurant once and the wine ordered tasted really funky or something. After my brother (who tasted) commented the waiter tried it too, agreed, and then brought out that weird decanter bottle thingy to let it breathe more or something (I don't drink wine, I don't actually know anything the science behind this, just remember what happened). Afterwards it tasted better and the waiter then served from it It wasn't really a fancy restaurant, nor was it really expensive wine, but it shows that tasting it beforehand to check if the wine is ok can indeed be important I feel
Regarding the food cost tangent, the general "rule of thumb" I've always heard in the restaurant industry is "whatever the cost of the raw ingredients is, multiply by 3": 1x cost of the ingredients 1x pay staff (generally 0.5x of this is to the chef, the rest split between line cooks and front of house) 1x invested back into business (rent, utilities, equipment maintenance/replacement, etc.) So for example, an $18 restaurant burger probably costs the business $6 in raw ingredients... So, _yes_ you could _technically_ make the same burger for around $6 if you had the right equipment, but at the restaurant you're paying for the skill/expertise of the chef and kitchen team, the time and effort of not having to prepare it yourself, the ambiance of the restaurant, and the service of the wait staff. Restaurant owners typically operate on virtually no personal profit (or sometimes even net-loss) until the rent is fully paid for and they own the building, at which point that chunk of the sales can be their "profit". This is why opening a restaurant is typically said to be one of the worst financial decisions one could make (NOTE: this is using the term "restaurant" in the classic definition, excluding QSRs and casual dining that Americans tend to lump into the "restaurant" umbrella).
Fun Fact "The customer is always right." is NOT the full quote the *FULL* quote is: "In matters of taste, the customer is always right." As such, it does _NOT_ mean that every fool thing they say is correct and should be obeyed without question it means that if the customer wants warm white wine, you cannot say they are WRONG to want that, even is chilled is normally how it is served Likewise, if the customer wants it chilled, and you serve it chilled, it isn't YOUR responsibility to keep it that way after the sale. THEY own the wine now, so what they do with it is up to them however, a restaurant may have marked up the price enough to want to keep the rich fool happy thinking they are getting one over on them by getting more wine for "free" by getting it warm and asking for more
Austria also has several respectable wineries. Even more respectable now, since these were the survivors of the "Anti freeze wine" scandles of the eighties.
A little fun fact that most wine snobs will throw an absolute shit fit if you even mention it. Red wine actually aerates better if you just put it in a blender for a few seconds.
14:07 yo i found this blue berry beer at the store in the local brew section and it was awesome... and now i cant find that shit anywhere and im pissed!
Something interesting to watch that's somewhat related, "The Austrian Wine Poisoning | Down the Rabbit Hole" by Fredrik Knudsen. Like the guy's videos, and that's one of my favorites.
"Ah yes, we keep the wine next to The catacombs. The ethereal cries of a thousand beheaded jacobins and counter-revulotionarys really brings out the flavor, see."
Stop explaining everything to her in the chat. That's what you are watching the video for! Caramba! 28:50 - It reminded me of all those videos where people opened wines and to prevent spilling put the neck of the bottle in their mouth. Enjoy the wine.
The last time I went out to eat at a fine dining restaurant it cost me about $180 for a steak and some veggies and a salad. My parents ordered drinks and their bill was nearly $230.
for everyone fellow Necron-player : I do NOT feel attacked I am a Necron player, I am also in favor of talking about kinks ( to each their own...but do not try to sell it to us, IF we say NO) 💖
Hey guys here is a little something for the happy new year, you too Alicia 🎊🎉 I wanted to spread this message to you guys! I just wanted to say, thank you. Thank you, for working hard, and providing others protection, love, happiness, support, shelter, and so much more. Thank you, for being there during those rough times. Thank you, for inspiring many people to do what they want to do. Thank you, for being such a goofball, it truly does make this dark and cruel world better. Thank you, for being loving to others and giving out happiness. Thank you, for teaching many people from your bravery and experience. Thank you, for showing your emotions to others. Thank you, for smiling. Thank you, for laughing. Thank you, for being brave. Thank you, for being respectful. Thank you, for showing your loved ones, how you really feel. Thank you, for all the gifts you gave people. Thank you, for letting me think of thousands of ways I want to appreciate you. Thank you, for existing. Thank you, for being yourself.
I work in a liquor store and have done several wine tastings, so probably tried about 60-700 different wines this past year, and I've also been practicing homebrewing wine. I overall agree with most of his comments about the best value being about $20-30, though there are some exceptions. In particular the Sauternes tend to be pricier being 20-30 for a Half sized bottle, but they are one of the best dessert wines I have ever tasted! Specifically "Chateau Doisy Vedrines Sauternes 2018" It was the last of a 12 wine tasting we did, and all the rest I thought were varying degrees of average wine, but when I tasted that I actually exclaimed "Holy Shit!! What is this, this is amazing!"
When you swirl the glass then you are determining the viscosity (aka legs) or how much sugar is in it. If it looks like syrup then it is going to be a sweet one. If the wine falls like water then it is going to be dry (aka not sweet) and high alcohol content in general.
Just a fun fact correction, I am certain it was just a misspoken bit in the moment considering; if the price of the ingredients is 33% of the dish price, the mark up would be 200% not 66%. 66% of the dish price would be the pre-expenses profit margin, however. You still have to take out for labor and expenses before the actual profit margin.
The worst are the middle-class mfers who desperately WANT to look rich and powerful. But the restaurant owner who'd bring the fam over for parties sometimes; he was always the calmest person in the room; wearing a modest reliable windbreaker jacket; the type of guy who's always got someone to go check on, but never makes a big deal about how busy he actually is. And then we had one regular who unironically had to have been a Yakuza boss, his younger wife cut his food into bites and everything, some scary shit
I worked food service for 3 years and went from respecting everybody to learning the customer is not always right. It’s the own damn fault most of the time
This video makes me wish that more people would watch Columbo, specifically the episode Any Old Port in a Storm. Great if you love detective stuff, and wine. XD
Wine drinking is super easy. First find a type of wine you like. Then give yourself a price range. Say…10-20 bucks. Then go to the store and you look at labels until you find one that you like and buy it. Easy peasy. I found a lot of good bottles that way. The swishing, the special glasses for different types of wine, only drinking a certain winewith fish….Its all bullshit.
This is neither here nor there, but when discussing what he would do after the conclusion of the Great Crusade, Ahzek Ahriman the Thousand Sons Space Marine Legion said he would retire from war and take up winemaking as a profession, and he had already taken to growing grapes and making wine as a hobby in his spare time.
"How much is art worth?" "Zero Dollars." Actually, there is some truth to this. The Mona Lisa is nothing more than a canvas with oil paint on it. But, it's insured for $1 billion.
The markups are still crazy im payed like shit in a bar the amount we take in and the amount we take out is astoniching ive worked in bars and restaurants there absolutely no excuses for some of the markups especialy for sodas and wine cus its bought in bulk at half market price and sold and double market price its a steal
Craft beers are 100% an acquired taste. You need to let your pallet get used to bitterness. And only when it does, you will start tasting other stuff. If you just occasionally drink, all you can taste is various levels of bitterness. And if you are kinda meh about beer taste and getting through the bitterness, there isn't really a point of getting into those deep waters - just get some wheat, light beer with citrusy notes, or something like grodziskie with distinct smoky ones. Perfect for summer. Be warned though, when your tongue gets used to craft levels of bitterness, all the "regular" beer you get will taste like stale water with no distinct features.
They spit the wine out because they're not trying to get irrevocably shithammered drunk, which seems like a waste to me but that's the reason. The idea is that you're going to be sipping dozens of wines with cheeses and even if you're only getting a sip each you're going to end up drinking more than a bottle strait to your head so rather than just gulp it all down you spit it out so you can try a lot more combinations and without destroying yourself.
Sounds like a coward strat
Yeah drinking 30-40 glasses of wine simply isn’t healthy for anyone.
@@FilmAcolyteReturns Death will find me unafraid, razor-sharp smile on my wine-stained lips.
I fear not the reaper, I fear a life unfulfilled.
I don't understand the allure of getting drunk.
@@christopherclayton5500it’s definitely an interesting feeling. I don’t do it much anymore because I’m over thirty and my body hates me.
I worked at this place in Oregon that was basically a "wine tasting restaurant". You paid a flat rate of $150 a person, and it included an appetizer, dinner, dessert, and 8 full burgundy glasses of any wine of your choosing. All I did was wash glasses all day. The was a separate dishwasher for everything else.
"As a wine tasting expert, I can determine this does definitely taste like wine!"
It also has hints of.... alcohol.... and grapes.
When Alicia said art is worth 0 while I was in the middle of drawing something I looked up and shed a tear
AI go brrr
Art is a synonym for poverty.
Hey maybe it'll make it worth something
My Dad works in the business of sparkling wine and Champagne, One of his favorite passtimes is organizing blind champagne tests, with bottles from 10 to 200$, just to show how almost noone ever chooses the expensive one as their favourite, in fact, most award winners in the blind tests are under 50$ 🤣
Hey. Hey. Hey. As a dude in his thirties that spends all his time painting Warhammer and is beginning to flirt with the idea of model trains... hear me out. Sex? Fifteen minutes of fun. Painting little model dudes with big pew-pew guns? HOURS of fun. Also, like, Happy New Year to y'all as well. I'm super happy to have discovered this channel, and Alicia and all that jazz.
That sounds like a stamina issue to me.... fix that and you can do hours with both.
15:20 yes but food “markup” is because the chef cooked said food, presented it and made it taste good. But with the wine they just bought the bottle and opened it. So it doesn’t really compare
2 fun facts from Italy about wine:
- If you are in Italy near Chieti (A province in Abruzzo) stop by Ortona: there is a fountain from which spills free red wine all year round (I went there once, the wine was actually really good); there are other wine fountains in Italy, but they are only available during certain events.
- There is a legend of a ghost living in the cellars of the Castle of Montevecchio, in Tuscany; he was the owner of the castle, a passionate winemaker, and supposedly he inspects the quality of the wine in the cellars and the vineyards of the area.
I now have another reason to visit Ortona if I ever go to Italy. I did not know about the wine fountain.
On the second fact, didn't Dream Theater make a song about the guy in Tuscany?
Honestly, this will probably remain one of my favourite "last thoughts" in a video. Just a bit of perspective and positivity about the whole thing.
As annoying or funny as it can be, it's ultimately a harmless hobby on par with the others mentioned. Let people have their fun.
I'm all for letting people enjoy their hobbies, it's when they talk down to people over it that gets me pissed. The reason nobody shits on stuff like model trains the same way is that model train guys don't act like their hobby makes them better, smarter people than you, which is what the stereotypical "wine snob" is doing that everybody hates them for.
@@UrLeingod That's an obvious exception. At the same time, however, you can just choose to not associate with those people. If they're your friend you can talk with them and get them to understand that they sound like a doofus - if not, they probably weren't that good of a friend in the first place.
yeah its easy taking a shit on others hobbys, but Internet Historian is a chad for wraping his content up with pointing a finger back at the viewer and reminding us all that in the end of the day we all freaking weird.
Laugh at others is okay as long as you remember to also laugh at yourself, else you might just become the real snoob.
That cog in the knee joke hits home for me cause a friend of mine had to have cogs in his knees because he fell out a window. He’s alright but he hates the knee gears.
Lmao
Not to mention that now every metal detector will blare out when he goes through it and he'll have to explain why the thingy is beeping around his knee
@@Homodemon Yep, I can’t tell ya how many times he’s said to me “I hate these fucking Knee gears!”
Hey Alicia. 2023 has been a hell of a year hasn’t it. I am so happy that I discovered your channels so many months ago. Went from having never even heard of you to you being my favorite content creator in such a short time. Happy new year
Customer being all "mayhaps I find a hint of citrus, perchance a metallic tone, like a breeze of dirt in the wind".
Meanwhile Alicia holding the bottle, "yeah sure, whatever you say man".
My brother and his wife visited an Italian restaurant on their honeymoon. They were expecting an Olive Garden kind of situation, but it was a five star restaurant that this Italian grandma ran out of a building that used to be a house. They showed up in jeans and band shirts and everyone else was in tuxedos and evening gowns. We joke now that everyone must have thought they were loaded lol.
Fun fact: Moxxie during the Ozzie's episode holds a wine glass correctly by the stem, which shows how he really knows his stuff.
Crimson probably taught him fancy table manners so he could both intimidate other mafia dons and/or blend in well doing sit downs and negotiations.
45:26 Alicia, you just have to steer him toward being a Warhammer models dude instead of a train dude. Much cooler attention to detail, and you can paint Slaaneshi stuff with him then! Oh, also Skaven! And 47:05 "Necrophiles", sit back and crack open a cold one! And they even keep the wine right there for easy access!
the "no fat chicks" line actually had me stunlocked for a second ngl xD
Everyone like "ooh I want to work fine dining now."
Alicia: "Fine dining? A FINE FUCKING MESS!!"
The concept of a “corking fee” is hilarious to me.
I mean it makes sense to me, cause like it's kind of rude to bring in your own food or drink anyways, but if you have a SUPER expensive or special bottle you brought to open, the restaurant will allow it, but it's not gonna drive into their business for allowing it.
Alicia, you missed watching him attempt to open a bottle with a knife/sword…and killed the waiter…and buried another body…
Hopefully that doesn’t happen a third time…lol😅😅😅
43:38 this is what people were referring to when they went to a bar and ordered "slops" (not literally but "slops" was the term fot the bar's runoff bucket so everything spilled on the bar that night ended up in it). You only see it in really old books or really accurate period stories because it fell out of favor pretty much as soon as peasants stopped being a thing.
13:45 If water works with any food, then flavored water works as well. Wine is just flavored water at its core, so it pairs. The same goes for any other drink, beer with steak, wine with steak, water with steak, Mountain dew with steak.
It's all based on how you view the pairing, does it fit for your taste? If you like both, then they will pair great, so if you like to eat steak and drink milk then they will go hand in hand.
Not related to wine, but to dining (look, I just need a place to put this where other people might feel the same way):
My dad doesn't work fine dining, he's lead manager at a Seattle pizza place, but he and his boss treat it like and emulate fine dining to enhance the customer experience. My dad has worked at this place since it was a local chain with like 10 locations all run by the same guy throughout the Seattle metro area, and he delivered for the one in the shitty ghettos of south Everett back then. It was still treated by the community as a fine dining establishment, mainly because the price/quality ratio was high yet respectable, but also because the previous owner put the business in debt to make it look like you were sitting in some Seattle lounge.
When the guy sold all his locations to eager managers who wanted to run their own pizza places, they realized he sold them his debts and all rebranded separately from one another to avoid them (you can tell they were all once the same chain because literally they all have the same stereotypical Italian dude mascot on the logo). The one I grew up in (that was bought by family friends who cut dad out of the deal) moved out of its fancy building only a few years after the second floor was added and became a hole-in-the-wall next to the 7/11. The original chef left, and the food quality dipped. My dad left for one of the two Seattle locations that was bought by his current boss, and that place has kept the spirit alive.
It isn't "fine dining" large by any means - it looks like a small, hole-in-the-wall eatery as soon as you walk in - but it's bigger than you would expect, having 2 banquet rooms and 2 primary dining areas. Boss man even set up a game room with free video games and table hockey for the kids (man's got a Playstation in there, he's really trying). My dad has taken to watering the plants, so they suddenly started overgrowing their pots and looking actually respectable.
The only real downside is that people with fragile egos, such as dad, let the "fine dining" atmosphere go to their head and suddenly they act like they're hot shit because they "work for a multi-million dollar dining establishment". Dude, you manage a pizza place that a man living in a $2 mil waterfront property is only just above breaking even on by overworking and criminally underpaying you and the rest of your employees. You make $19/hour without tips. When your income can move us out of this rv and buy a modest home, I'll change my stance. But functioning like fine dining and actually being fine dining are not the same thing. People who work true fine dining can comfortably afford an apartment in Seattle.
It took the french 8 years to think of thicker bottles and they couldn't even figure it out on their own. This is why we need a cure for Frenchness.
Happy new year Alicia. I started watching you late 2023 it was on your first Internet historian video and I haven't looked back since, you are one of the best UA-camrs I have watched and can't wait to see what else you plan to watch in the new year 🎊
39:44 Something that IH doesn't convey well: In a restaurant where they present the bottle to you before opening and then pour a small amount to taste, the point is only for you to verify it is the bottle you ordered before they open it, and to check that the wine has not gone off. Unless one of those things is an issue, the only polite thing to do is quickly nod and let the server get on with their job of serving.
Reminds me when our family went to a restaurant once and the wine ordered tasted really funky or something. After my brother (who tasted) commented the waiter tried it too, agreed, and then brought out that weird decanter bottle thingy to let it breathe more or something (I don't drink wine, I don't actually know anything the science behind this, just remember what happened). Afterwards it tasted better and the waiter then served from it
It wasn't really a fancy restaurant, nor was it really expensive wine, but it shows that tasting it beforehand to check if the wine is ok can indeed be important I feel
You skipped his video on Paintings on his Incognito Mode channel. The order of his Fancy series goes:
1. Theater
2. Paintings
3. Wine
sometimes i forget alicia is an FGC vet and then she drops a tekken reference in the middle of a wine video
Reminds me of when my mom used to drink those cheap wines that come in a box, lol.
Regarding the food cost tangent, the general "rule of thumb" I've always heard in the restaurant industry is "whatever the cost of the raw ingredients is, multiply by 3":
1x cost of the ingredients
1x pay staff (generally 0.5x of this is to the chef, the rest split between line cooks and front of house)
1x invested back into business (rent, utilities, equipment maintenance/replacement, etc.)
So for example, an $18 restaurant burger probably costs the business $6 in raw ingredients... So, _yes_ you could _technically_ make the same burger for around $6 if you had the right equipment, but at the restaurant you're paying for the skill/expertise of the chef and kitchen team, the time and effort of not having to prepare it yourself, the ambiance of the restaurant, and the service of the wait staff.
Restaurant owners typically operate on virtually no personal profit (or sometimes even net-loss) until the rent is fully paid for and they own the building, at which point that chunk of the sales can be their "profit". This is why opening a restaurant is typically said to be one of the worst financial decisions one could make (NOTE: this is using the term "restaurant" in the classic definition, excluding QSRs and casual dining that Americans tend to lump into the "restaurant" umbrella).
Happy New Year Alicia. Congrats again on beating cancer and I hope 2024 continues to go great for you!
Fun Fact
"The customer is always right."
is NOT the full quote
the *FULL* quote is: "In matters of taste, the customer is always right."
As such, it does _NOT_ mean that every fool thing they say is correct and should be obeyed without question
it means that if the customer wants warm white wine, you cannot say they are WRONG to want that, even is chilled is normally how it is served
Likewise, if the customer wants it chilled, and you serve it chilled, it isn't YOUR responsibility to keep it that way after the sale. THEY own the wine now, so what they do with it is up to them
however, a restaurant may have marked up the price enough to want to keep the rich fool happy thinking they are getting one over on them by getting more wine for "free" by getting it warm and asking for more
Austria also has several respectable wineries. Even more respectable now, since these were the survivors of the "Anti freeze wine" scandles of the eighties.
Happy New Year! It’s been great finding your content! 🎆
A little fun fact that most wine snobs will throw an absolute shit fit if you even mention it. Red wine actually aerates better if you just put it in a blender for a few seconds.
14:07 yo i found this blue berry beer at the store in the local brew section and it was awesome... and now i cant find that shit anywhere and im pissed!
Happy new year! May it be filled with even more great content
Something interesting to watch that's somewhat related, "The Austrian Wine Poisoning | Down the Rabbit Hole" by Fredrik Knudsen.
Like the guy's videos, and that's one of my favorites.
"am I uncultured?"
no, the lower classes have a culture all their own. **runs key down a poorly parked aston martin** 😂
16:39 even though they add 33 percent more price of the food and wine, they still want us to give them tip
Huzzah! A fine glass of Alicia Historian to pair with the end of the year! 🎩🍷
14:37 Virgo club shout out!!! Virgos have a telepathic network, and said network is judging you silently.
"Ah yes, we keep the wine next to The catacombs. The ethereal cries of a thousand beheaded jacobins and counter-revulotionarys really brings out the flavor, see."
15:20 But he said 250 to 300 per-cent, not 25 to 33.
I showed this video to my dad and he laughed his ass off.
Stop explaining everything to her in the chat. That's what you are watching the video for! Caramba!
28:50 - It reminded me of all those videos where people opened wines and to prevent spilling put the neck of the bottle in their mouth. Enjoy the wine.
I’m actually a brewer, and hearing about that oat citrus beer is getting my brain moving. I might need to experiment on a couple recipes!
Just so you know, you skipped Even fancier: Paintings from his other channel Incognito mode. It's part of the series.
Happy new year Alicia 🎉 I'm happy I subbed ❤❤
as a persian its kinda sad that we dont have shiraz wine in our own city :C the government banned alcohol
I can't listen to Internet Historian anymore without hearing "Gary Loves you" at the end of each section of Dialogue. Thanks Wendigoon
Art is worth exactly as much as people are willing to pay for it.
It depends on the art, most art is worth enough to make the artist a living wage.
Or how much people are willing to launder through it
@@michaelmcdoesntexist8350
Some things are too true to be good.
The last time I went out to eat at a fine dining restaurant it cost me about $180 for a steak and some veggies and a salad. My parents ordered drinks and their bill was nearly $230.
Pretty sure making you pay out of pocket for the customers screw ups is actually illegal.
for everyone fellow Necron-player : I do NOT feel attacked
I am a Necron player, I am also in favor of talking about kinks ( to each their own...but do not try to sell it to us, IF we say NO)
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Hey guys here is a little something for the happy new year, you too Alicia 🎊🎉
I wanted to spread this message to you guys! I just wanted to say, thank you.
Thank you, for working hard, and providing others protection, love, happiness, support, shelter, and so much more.
Thank you, for being there during those rough times.
Thank you, for inspiring many people to do what they want to do.
Thank you, for being such a goofball, it truly does make this dark and cruel world better.
Thank you, for being loving to others and giving out happiness.
Thank you, for teaching many people from your bravery and experience.
Thank you, for showing your emotions to others.
Thank you, for smiling.
Thank you, for laughing.
Thank you, for being brave.
Thank you, for being respectful.
Thank you, for showing your loved ones, how you really feel.
Thank you, for all the gifts you gave people.
Thank you, for letting me think of thousands of ways I want to appreciate you.
Thank you, for existing.
Thank you, for being yourself.
I work in a liquor store and have done several wine tastings, so probably tried about 60-700 different wines this past year, and I've also been practicing homebrewing wine. I overall agree with most of his comments about the best value being about $20-30, though there are some exceptions.
In particular the Sauternes tend to be pricier being 20-30 for a Half sized bottle, but they are one of the best dessert wines I have ever tasted!
Specifically "Chateau Doisy Vedrines Sauternes 2018"
It was the last of a 12 wine tasting we did, and all the rest I thought were varying degrees of average wine, but when I tasted that I actually exclaimed "Holy Shit!! What is this, this is amazing!"
When you swirl the glass then you are determining the viscosity (aka legs) or how much sugar is in it. If it looks like syrup then it is going to be a sweet one. If the wine falls like water then it is going to be dry (aka not sweet) and high alcohol content in general.
9:49, ‘Zero, we do not appreciate your passions’
Guilliman is the best Primarch because he has a skill that none of his brothers possess: the ability to properly file his taxes.
Oooh, you missed the one about art on his second channel, Incognito Mode
Just a fun fact correction, I am certain it was just a misspoken bit in the moment considering; if the price of the ingredients is 33% of the dish price, the mark up would be 200% not 66%. 66% of the dish price would be the pre-expenses profit margin, however. You still have to take out for labor and expenses before the actual profit margin.
The worst are the middle-class mfers who desperately WANT to look rich and powerful.
But the restaurant owner who'd bring the fam over for parties sometimes; he was always the calmest person in the room; wearing a modest reliable windbreaker jacket; the type of guy who's always got someone to go check on, but never makes a big deal about how busy he actually is.
And then we had one regular who unironically had to have been a Yakuza boss, his younger wife cut his food into bites and everything, some scary shit
My parents drink everything they open. Lol😂
I already know this finna be a fire video like always, I have already seen the stream 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I don't drink, but I do pour sparkling grape juice in a wine glass if I have it. Useful for New Years Eve.
Lemon pith is what you get when a lemon with a lisp pees
36:02 This is the most animated I have seen her V-tuber model.
42:57 now that alone deserves some mad respect
If I've learned anything from this video its that Alicia is a god at customer service
You do realize V-Tubing is just mass customer service, right?
@@BenLWolf +Adult daycare, if you go lower
Everything in the whole world is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it.
9:43 some exposure and a solid handshake
Pith is the white part of the citrus skin, it is bitter and sticky and will dry hard as a rock (they actually make helmets out of the stuff)
I worked food service for 3 years and went from respecting everybody to learning the customer is not always right. It’s the own damn fault most of the time
My parents are part of a wine club at local winery, now that there retired they love it so much
listening to the waiter experiences reminded me of the song "Red Flags" by tom cardy
This video makes me wish that more people would watch Columbo, specifically the episode Any Old Port in a Storm. Great if you love detective stuff, and wine. XD
The youtuber "Oversimplified" is a great history youtuber that I would LOVE for you to see
Yes
"How much is THAT worth? How much is ART worth?"
I see cooking as an art form, and some people LOVE McDonalds. So...
Yay...a historical video about how terrible grape flavored piss is...I'm gonna take a nap
20:33 Lotta corpses and lotta corks-es!
Wine drinking is super easy. First find a type of wine you like. Then give yourself a price range. Say…10-20 bucks. Then go to the store and you look at labels until you find one that you like and buy it. Easy peasy. I found a lot of good bottles that way. The swishing, the special glasses for different types of wine, only drinking a certain winewith fish….Its all bullshit.
Alicia talking about food mark-ups and stuff only further cemented my belief that all restaurants are ripping you off lol.
I'm pretty sure Elon went back to number 1 richest man right before the year ended
Thanks for the upload on new years.
This is neither here nor there, but when discussing what he would do after the conclusion of the Great Crusade, Ahzek Ahriman the Thousand Sons Space Marine Legion said he would retire from war and take up winemaking as a profession, and he had already taken to growing grapes and making wine as a hobby in his spare time.
"How much is art worth?"
"Zero Dollars."
Actually, there is some truth to this. The Mona Lisa is nothing more than a canvas with oil paint on it. But, it's insured for $1 billion.
I'll take the wine that comes in those juice-boxes.
Oh about the Mountain Dew of high society joke? Someone was actually trying to make a Mountain Dew wine and posted it here on UA-cam.
All i know about wine is I like drinking it 😂
I think lemon pith is the white part of the peel. But it's been a long ass time since I studied cooking.
"Money talks, wealth whispers" if your rich you flaunt it, if your wealthy you dont need to show or prove it
The markups are still crazy im payed like shit in a bar the amount we take in and the amount we take out is astoniching ive worked in bars and restaurants there absolutely no excuses for some of the markups especialy for sodas and wine cus its bought in bulk at half market price and sold and double market price its a steal
Craft beers are 100% an acquired taste. You need to let your pallet get used to bitterness. And only when it does, you will start tasting other stuff. If you just occasionally drink, all you can taste is various levels of bitterness. And if you are kinda meh about beer taste and getting through the bitterness, there isn't really a point of getting into those deep waters - just get some wheat, light beer with citrusy notes, or something like grodziskie with distinct smoky ones. Perfect for summer. Be warned though, when your tongue gets used to craft levels of bitterness, all the "regular" beer you get will taste like stale water with no distinct features.
Wine reaction at the new year ?? with champagne in my hand ?? heck yeah :D
I always love watching your IH reactions
Keep up the good work
she skipped the murder at the end :(
Man 40k is my generation old train man? Was not ready to be exposed like that. I dont even like trains.
Happy new year🎉🎉🎉
Happy new year
Me personally i believe sanguinius would be the best kisser.
Either him or fulgrim