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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject: How can all these restaurants afford to deliver? |
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| okay, granted i'm in a small town, but seriously! aren't gas prices through the roof? how can all these restaurants afford to deliver? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Wondering the same thing, but I think this is like one of those "caramilk" question. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I think they pay the drivers next to nothing. If they didn't do deliveries, I bet they would have a big decrease in sales. They also have a very, very limited delivery range, from what I've noticed (in reference to kim bap jips and Chinese food, especially). |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| I think they pay the drivers next to nothing. If they didn't do deliveries, I bet they would have a big decrease in sales. They also have a very, very limited delivery range, from what I've noticed (in reference to kim bap jips and Chinese food, especially). |
Exactly, if they don't deliver they go out of business. From what I have heard, those delivery people actually make pretty decent money because they work all day long and because it is a dangerous job, especially during the winter. |
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crazykiwi
Joined: 07 Jun 2003
Location: new zealand via daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| those bikes run on next to nothing. as does the food they make i would imagine. not that big a cost really. |
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ForceOne
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| How can they afford NOT to deliver? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:11 am Post subject: |
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| It's an investment. They likely get over ten times the customers because they deliver. I think some deliverymen are freelance and deliver for several restaurants. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| i wonder how the restaurants can afford to COOK with gas. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| I used to want to grow up to be a Chinese food delivery boy and spin around town on a scooter. Looked cool to me. Then I heard they only get W3,000 an hour. My new goal: Popcorn Boy at Base Camp (same wages, but beer and popcorn included). |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| The real question is why the price of jjajang hasn't budged for 10 years. |
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capebretoncanadian
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I asked a Korean friend and her take on it is that most of the delivery guys are either owners of the restaurants or sons, daughters, relatives of theirs that they can get away with paying nothing or next to nothing. |
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seoulsista
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| How do the taxi drivers make any money? They seem to spend so much time hanging out too. |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I alwasy wonder about the prices too. Like will the price of gimbab EVER change from 1000? It seems like no one would want to be the first to do it. It is such a set in stone price it seems, along with a lot of the other korean "fast food" (like bibimbap, jiggaes, etc.) |
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pocketfluff
Joined: 30 May 2006
Location: Washington, DC (school) and Los Angeles, CA (home)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| The real question is why the price of jjajang hasn't budged for 10 years. |
I was told that it had to do with Korea-China relations. Chinese-Korean residents have always been oppressed by the Korean Government. Original Ja-jang myun is the culinary pride of the Chinese and the Korean President at the time, Kim Young-Sam, fixed prices at the urging of his citizens.
Another theory I've been told was that owners of various Chinese restaurants in Korea, fearing undercutting of prices by their competitors, got together and set prices in order to protect themselves from the vagaries of the market.
I don't know which is true, but the people in the business must be making a profit or they wouldn't be in it. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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They make a profit because the cost of producing a bowl of Ja-jang-myung is about 4 cents.
I hate that stuff. It doesn't taste like Chinese food. It looks and tastes like gravy made by 5 year- olds. |
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