Is this coming from experience or are you just kind of guessing? There are plenty of cocktails that use non-shelf stable stuff that you can get anywhere. On top of that, the new movement towards providing non-alcoholic drinks on the menu just reuses these same ingredients in different ways.
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Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Some this has to do with shelf life. Beverages containing alcohol have a long shelf life. A restaurant is not going to take losses on having 50 kinds of juice or whatever on hand. Another angle to this is that a lot of the drinks on the alcoholic menu are cocktails, so just combinations of other shit they have. Finally, what adult is just drinking milk? Have some water, it is good for you.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve worked on both sides of the house for 14 years and I’m in management now. The issue is once you open products, not when they’re sitting there. Sitting there is also an issue, however, as stock that doesn’t move still incurs costs. I work on the institutional side now and we only provide nonalcoholic beverages, but they are either single serve or cheap bulk prep. These are not what people are expecting at a restaurant. Many items in cocktails also have long shelf lives after opening or are cheap/move quickly.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Many items in cocktails also have long shelf lives after opening or are cheap/move quickly.
This is why I think we see variations on actual cocktails so much…you have it, it’s open, so move it.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Exactly. It’s like having a breakfast only restaurant. You can make a menu of 50 entrees by combining 8 main ingredients with various cooking methods and spices.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
With having IBD I’m pretty much limited to water or milk. I’m absolutely going to drink milk when I can because I get fed up drinking water multiple times a day every fucking day.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I guess, I primarily drink water. I’m not restricted in the same way, but I’m an innate fat fuck, so water is my drink of choice. I’m surprised milk wouldn’t inflame IBD.
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The concept of being fed up with water is so alien to me. Water doesn’t have some powerful, delicious flavor but the sensation of water is almost one of satisfying refreshment.
How can you be irritated by water? “Damn it, this is only exactly what my body needs!”
chocoladisco@feddit.de 1 month ago
Seems like a huge failure in their nutrition education.
Drink water for your hydration, everything else is a treat and not hydration.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Idk, I like other beverages as well, but I’ve only ever been disappointed by water when it has contaminants I can taste.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some people crave or have to have some kind of flavor with their liquids or they don’t want it. I have known multiple people who thought water tasted gross, which is somewhat legit because I had to get used to the different water taste when I went to school on the opposite side of town, but they just thought any kind of water was gross. They’d always have a soda or coffee or something.
My issue isn’t flavor necessarily, its carbonation. But plain/unsweetened soda water is gross and soda streams aren’t worth it to make my own infused water.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Hydrohomies tho
Noedel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My wife has colitis and dairy fucks her up 😮
Can you drink tea?
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The milk is for parents.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just like having milk with every meal. I don’t like water and having dinner with a fizzy drink is just wrong.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month ago
What do you mean you dont like water? You mean that liquid that makes you die if you dont have any for a couple days?
Milk is absolutely disgusting during a meal since it gets so warm and gross.
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Historically, milk was generally consumed warm. Breasts aren’t kegerators.
shitescalates@midwest.social 1 month ago
Historically it was only consumed by babies too.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No it doesn’t. Milk can stay cold for ages. Like I would have any meal gone within 10 minutes.
chocoladisco@feddit.de 1 month ago
Consuming a meal in less than ten minutes is really not indicative of healthy eating habits.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just because it’s essential for life doesn’t mean that people have to like it. I really don’t like drinking water unless it’s just out of the fridge or cooler. I always add cordial to it.
variants@possumpat.io 1 month ago
I used to think like this in high school until I joined football and learned how much I loved water during practice, now I carry a water bottle everywhere for a swig whenever I get a slight thirst
brb@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Milk is absolutely delightful with greasy foods. When are you supposed to drink it if not with meals?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Milk is disgusting with all foods
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month ago
I hate milk. I use oat milk with my coffee and that is it
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Respectfully, what the fuck?
CareHare@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not judging you on your milk drinking, but drinking too much milk can have serious side effects. Humans weren’t biologically made to drink milk their whole lives.
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They weren’t biologically made to drink alcohol or big macs their whole lives either yet here you are.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yeah, this is a hella weird comment in an alcohol thread. That stuff is actually toxic, and popular mainly because of it.
CareHare@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Very true, yet lactose intolerance is quite common among humans.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Its not mandatory, but I’ll have you know this is incorrect.