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I would argue that if building one thing is cheaper per unit than building 100 there is something fishy going on. You aren't even good at cooking!

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If the restaurant made only one dish and employed a skeleton crew reheating it from frozen because it was made in enormous batches then yeah they might be able to reduce the cost so far below you doing it at home that they can pay the other restaurant overhead and still come out on top. That's a lot different than running a full service restaurant though.

Manual labor may as easy be more expensive at scale, not cheaper. Then if you really read the article there are tax/regulatory expenses which you are spared of as an individual.

You are suppose to collect tax and use it to improve and stabilize quality of life. Here it is used to punish people for trying to feed themselves, used to squeeze restaurants out of existence and used to punish social life. The vat alone is twice what the restaurant makes and it requires keeping track of everything to calculate it. You cant sell me on the idea this benefits the economy.

>You cant sell me on the idea this benefits the economy.

But I don't say anything like that. Surely, the UK (and many other countries) both overtaxing, and overregulating restaurants to the point they have either to cut every corner to detriment of visitors experience or find a place in some expensive niche.

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