[HN Gopher] The Palm Court $30 burger tastes like the death of S...
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The Palm Court $30 burger tastes like the death of San Francisco
Author : rmason
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-10-13 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| jmull wrote:
| This sounds like a good thing to me.
|
| Sometimes you need to go to a fancy restaurant. This place seems
| to have made it possible to get a good burger while you're at it.
| Everybody wins?
| baybal2 wrote:
| bdbenton wrote:
| The final stage of gentrification is the buying up of homes as
| pure investment properties by corporate and financial entities.
|
| This is why housing is unafforable in LA, greedy landlords,
| especially the corporate variety. It's why the streets are filled
| with homeless in the largest cities of California.
|
| First, it's white collar workers replacing blue collar workers.
| Then, it's vast numbers of empty homes and homeless people side-
| by-side.
|
| This is what happens when the wealth gap grows without ceasing,
| the financial industry is the largest in the world.
|
| It is not wholly bad to see my home state of Texas ascend as a
| tech hub, but California is still a part of the USA.
|
| In many countries, corporate investment of residential homes is
| illegal. I still care about California, and if you guys want to
| keep it from steering towards a dystopian technocratic nightmare,
| you need to reign in corporate real estate investing and
| monopolistic practices from tech employers.
|
| What is the point of a high SF tech salary if living expenses
| just do not make logical sense? What about the blue collar
| workers who make the city run? It's materialistic and self-
| cannabilizing. Billionaires among record-breaking homeless
| populations.
|
| Don't think the liberal party is that different from the
| conservative party, both are beholden to the wealthy class. No
| matter the ruling party, it takes everyday people working
| together to make a real change. Real communities working together
| to solve problems.
|
| People solve problems, politicians are just puppets for corporate
| interest. We are the people. Stand up for your rights and
| challenge authority, or it will just keep going this direction.
| strikelaserclaw wrote:
| we should have laws that heavily regulate using homes as
| investment vehicles unless we want to become china 2.0.
| yawnxyz wrote:
| That looks like some stuffed up IKEA + food court. I can't
| imagine spending $30 for that kind of ambiance, instead of on a
| very high quality burger. The entire thing feels like "children
| pretending to be fancy rich adults".
| odysseus wrote:
| I kinda want that burger. Even if, like the author, I'd feel very
| out of place walking into such an establishment.
|
| Bet this article is going to draw a lot of people to RH.
| rmason wrote:
| Have to admit to you there's things done on the West coast that
| folks in the Midwest are first agog and then find extremely
| hilarious and this is a perfect example.
|
| Now there's a Restoration Hardware in Detroit and friends
| restoring houses there recommend it highly. But if someone was to
| put a fancy restaurant inside and featured a $30 burger it would
| be talked about long after it was gone.
|
| Millers Bar in the nearby Detroit suburb of Dearborn routinely
| makes top ten lists of the best burger in America and it doesn't
| cost half that amount. Millers Bar isn't a fancy place, the
| burgers come on waxed paper and you've got to ask the waiter for
| a glass with your beer if you want one. I wouldn't be shocked to
| find out that Bob Segar, Jeff Daniels or Eminem are regulars
| there but I've never spotted them.
| joezydeco wrote:
| Chicago has two RHs with restaurants in them and, as far as I
| can tell, nobody is that up in arms about them. They're upscale
| _furniture stores_ and they 're in upscale neighborhoods (gold
| coast and oakbrook).
|
| I've eaten at RH and I've eaten at IKEA. Same goals as far as I
| can see it.
| pxmpxm wrote:
| The Chicago one had about an hour wait to get seated for
| saturday brunch; clearly those burgers should be selling for
| way more than $30.
| UncleOxidant wrote:
| Hasn't this sort of thing been going on in SF for quite a while
| now?
| deleted_account wrote:
| The more interesting story is RH combining high-end home decor
| and...restaurants? (And jets, and yachts?)[1] As for the death of
| San Francisco, The Ramp is in spitting distance, so if you find
| yourself at the Palm Court you might have nobody to blame but
| yourself.
|
| [1]https://rh.com/restaurants, https://rh.com/one,
| https://rh.com/three
| [deleted]
| tqi wrote:
| Actually the inability to deal with obvious issues like this one
| seems more like the death of San Francisco:
|
| https://sfist.com/2022/10/13/glen-park-rat-infestations-bein...
| calrueb wrote:
| I feel like this article is making a bigger deal out of Palm
| Court than need be. I have been there; yes, if you do any
| research at all you know your getting ripped off on food prices.
| But for a date night of just wandering around the show rooms, and
| then getting some food it was a good time. SF isn't dying.
| msarrel wrote:
| I think he's dead right in this article. I noticed when I moved
| from New York to San Francisco about 5 years ago that the
| emphasis of "fine dining" is price and exclusivity, not quality.
| It's as if people only know something tastes good because they
| paid $30 for it.
| smackeyacky wrote:
| The $30 isn't for the food, it's to make sure you don't have to
| interact with "those" people i.e. the poors.
| acchow wrote:
| I feel the opposite. It's easy to find quality food made with
| quality ingredients in San Francisco
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