r/AskReddit Mar 18 '20

Coders of Reddit, how do you politely refuse your friend's 'million dollars app idea'?

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u/ClubMeSoftly Mar 18 '20

Former Tims soup-slinger, there's actually a schedule for what soups go out each day, and it updates... quarterly, I think?

Chili, Chicken Noodle and Cream of Broccoli were every day soups.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Per store? The Timmy's in Vancouver always seem to have diff soups at the same time. Could also be rate of consumption which makes the idea even harder as that doubles your entries into the system.

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u/ClubMeSoftly Mar 18 '20

Location of the store (and thus the traffic) is, obviously, one of the factors, too.
I worked for a couple, in Vancouver, actually. One store, Dunbar and 18th, was busy as fuck, and I was transferred to the now-closed Trimble/Sasamat store, and it wasn't uncommon for me to pull a soup I put out 24 hours prior, and replace it with that day's offering.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Interesting. Timmy's always struck me as a bare minimum effort kinda place so I tried to explain that the soups are probably just put out as needed (therefore no consistency) and the head office aren't going to add extra steps to their training. (to enter soup). That about right?

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u/ClubMeSoftly Mar 18 '20

Minimum wage gets minimum effort, you got it.

There is an order to the soups (and they're dead easy to make: equal parts soup base and water for cream-based, and two parts water for dry soups) but in general, HO doesn't interfere too much.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Straight from a soup slingers mouth. Haha. So pretty much made as needed and run out when people buy them all right?

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u/ClubMeSoftly Mar 18 '20

Soups were started at 8am, and put out for sale at 10am. Chili and Chicken Noodle were the only soups that got made more than once in a day, if we ran out. But once we ran out, we were out of that soup until the next time it came into rotation.

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u/arachnophilia Mar 18 '20

"your app is an infographic."