• Vegan cafe that charged 18 per cent 'man tax' is set to close
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the majority of americans couldn't afford to eat at a vegan only restaurant as they typically have much higher prices but from other posts its clear that they were just run out of business by the other 5 vegan restaurants in the area and poor service.
Vegan cafes are extremely common and successful in Melbourne actually. I'm not vegan but I've been to plenty there that are out of this world good. Rivaling California's Vegan food scene. This place is probably just over priced, bad food, and polarizing with that sign.
I'm aware of the cafe/vegan scene in Australia cities, but it doesn't deter the fact that cafes are a tough business to run.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/716/fda49bb5-4f7f-4340-9044-45f771b682b6/image.png lmao
That could be because their traffic could be much lower, and to accommodate for running costs, they have to price their meals higher. America is a different market to us, so I'm just assuming shit
Vegan food is only expensive when it tries to imitate non-vegan food.
This is so weird, you can see my house in this image lol. I've never even heard of this place, but if it's that close to the cornish arms, no wonder it failed. Cornish arms is one of the best vegan food places in melbourne, straight up huge pub meals that are the same price as normal, really tasty too.
As obviously stupid as this idea is, a lot of people still don't get that this is just life for women, but for important stuff
As someone who works on the R&D side of paint, most pigments in paints and primers are ground limestone, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, ground carbon, and various synthetic organic compounds.
I'm trying here, but I can't put together what the last bit of your post is actually pointing at. Life for women is being so lazy in creating a business that you overcharge and don't shower? I know quite a few women who are very successful because they've just worked hard.
If you're making a political point by discriminating against people in a business capacity, you deserve no respect whatsoever. You deserve to lose your business. As they did.
They were running a business, not a woke twitter activism account.
Further, if someone cares about this idea (that women allegedly pay more just to live), they should have umbrage with the morons who give their message a terrible name. Good job, idiots.
I mean, I already said it was a stupid idea so, not sure who you're actually arguing to. I'm just saying that a lot of people ignore the reality of the pink tax
Arent the products usually listed under the "pink tax" thing actually different because of the differences between men and womens skin and hair and shit?
I'm not going to say that overall women have it equal or cheaper than men, but there are certainly a number of differences where the "pink tax" exists because women don't choose to buy the cheaper yet apparently-equal "male" products.
The pink tax is something self inflicted. Companies sell this shit, because women buy it. Why wouldn't they upcharge it when people are literally throwing their cash away to have a colour they like and a special name? The problem is marketting works, and marketting has sold people on a lot of concepts that they now desire, without any fucking reason. Getting mad at "Men" as if everything we buy is cheap is absurd.
I found a pink tool set "for women" in a store once a few years ago that was 20% cheaper than the one next to it which was an identical set from the same company with the single difference being it wasn't pink. It was the weirdest, dumbest thing and I'd like to think anyone who bought one just got the pink one.
There was a video about a bunch of women trying male razors and shaving gel, the results were they all had red spots and cuts on their legs after a month trial period
I'm hesitant to respond because you clearly have some sort of trap laid out so no matter how I respond you'll go "oh yeah? well what about [situation I've already thought of but didn't share so I could trap you]" How about you present the scenario you're clearly thinking about instead of using vagueries to try to trap me into agreeing with something you never said.
wouldn't the analogue be a restaurant offering a second "manly" menu that costs more
So you come back with "why are you guys arguing jeesh". If you meant the "pink tax", then say it in your first post, rather than leaving it open-ended and vague. You ignited the argument, then tried to play it off. That's shitposting.
so does the mod get banned? 🤔
What does this even mean
It's not that, it's just that vegan food tends to cost considerably more than regular food. That means most people will take a cheaper alternative and it'll just be mostly other vegans willing to pay the high price, either due to their morals or because of some health issue that prevents them from eating elsewhere.
Is anyone here familiar with the law in Australia? Why wasn't it illegal to charge men more for the same products... or did they use a work around?
No, it's not what people are doing, it's Veganism itself, I don't really care what boat you're on, it's just not something I could ever see myself get into, Veganism is weird about what you do and don't eat whereas Vegetarianism is relatively straight forward and doesn't just needlessly cut out a bunch of decent stuff, like you cut out almost all, if not all meats and that's basically it, Vegans though, they cut out animal products straight up, why though? It just seem like massive waste; not directly related to Veganism itself, but you tend to get people who are Vegans feeling the need to proclaim that they're Vegans, you don't get Vegetarians doing so unless it's relevant, nor do you get people who eat meat doing the same, like, good for you, nobody gives a shit.
I'm not a vegan, but there are a number of reasons why someone might be vegan; ethical and environmental ones are the big factors. A massive waste of what, though? I mean you said it yourself, this isn't really something directly related to veganism; I've noticed more people getting wildly offended that someone mentioned being vegan when relevant than I've seen (non activist) vegans being annoying. You absolutely do, though. This is actually extremely common; refer to the bacon meme, the entire 'proud meat eater' thing that's in response to vegetarians existing, etc.
It's already bad enough that they discriminate against male customers by charging them extra and treating them like shit, but the fact that the restaurant taxed trans women extra as well already makes it clear that they're not even making an attempt at being progressive. The people running the restaurant can go fuck themselves.
Do you have a source on that? The only snippet I could find relates to trans people is The restaurant also serves as a safe space for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community
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