The Core

One of the trends in our lives has been less and less casual contact with other human beings. There's the whole Bowling Alone phenomenon, but in addition there are ATMs and self-serve gas and ticket kiosks and so on. Covid is accelerating that and I fear there is an element of sacrificing humanity in the quest for efficiency.

Now a Thing: Digital-Only Restaurants
https://www.newser.com/story/298780/now-a-thing-digital-only-restaurants.html

Automats are making a comeback.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/nyc-automat-announces-massive-deal-to-franchise-500-locations-in-north-america/ar-BB1aScY8

https://www.livemint.com/news/automats-make-a-comeback-in-covid-19-pandemic-11604898582551.html

>rent commercial kitchen space

This will be huge. Locally here there is a guy who has been working with restaurants to partner them up with other food producers that can utilize their facilities during times the restaurant is closed.

My wife and I have been looking into some commercial kitchen space recently. There are some shared kitchens but they are all pretty limited in what they can do. But if we could get some space a day or two in an existing restaurant kitchen that would be ideal. She has been making and selling out of our home but we have had some interest from restaurants that want to sell her biscuits but in order to do that we would need commercial space.

In the local food groups I am in there are at least a couple dozen people doing the same type of things. Stay at home moms selling cheesecakes, guys selling some bbq on the weekends, people selling ethnic foods that are hard to find in restaurants here (tamales, lumpia, empanadas, etc.). Easy, affordable access to commercial kitchen space will definitely help grow a LOT of small businesses. Most of these people don't want a normal restaurant but just want to be able to sell their products for people to take home and eat.

^{Well, where's the ambiance?}

The Robotic Future of Restaurants: 75% Smaller, No Humans In The Kitchen, Fits In A Shipping Container

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/12/11/the-robotic-future-of-restaurants-75-smaller-no-humans-in-the-kitchen-fits-in-a-shipping-container/

>rats

I was just reading about that.  They didn't close the place until the rats chewed through the cash register cables.

>rats

Seal the doors and ozone them. (Ozone is my current answer to everything, hhh. When all you have is a hammer...)

> rats

Are we sure those weren't politicians masquerading as rats?  Hard to tell.

>ozone them

Politicians.

^{Okay it was a cheap shot but I'm fine with it.}

>>flee the area

For bedbugs in hotels, it is now standard to kill them with heat. Since they tend to flee, though, you need to first heat up all adjacent rooms above, next to, below and diagonally, so they flee into the target room. Then you crank the heat in the target room until they're dead. I guess exterior walls are okay b/c once they're out of the building the die of other things? Not totally sure.

Anyway, point being that you want to make sure you plan for where they flee to

>commercial kitchen space

Restaurants Turn To 'Ghost Kitchens' For Survival
https://kjzz.org/content/1644150/ghost-kitchens-restaurants-launch-take-out-only-branches-they-adapt-pandemic