the irony is that i could pay less if i just bought each entire fish head separately
At one point I would say Sfogliatelle. At least good Sfogliatelle (you have a few Italian markets and bakeries that occassionally make it). Well I walked into Pasta Sisters this past week and there the were… And a they were amazing. The pastry dough was flakey and buttery. Better butter flavor than many of the top tier croissants out there. But the pastry cream. Divinity. Not only was the texture spot on and the vanilla flavor deep, but it was studded with the tastiest and tenderest candied orange peel I’ve ever had. It had all the amazing elements of a true Italian pastry. We have arrived LA. We have arrived…
–Dommy!
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Any good cannoli around? missing Isgro’s…
I don’t like Canoli. I haven’t seen them at Pasta Sisters, but they are a lot easier to find around town. Supposedly the ones at Knead at the farmers market are good. But I’ve never had them and probably won’t
–Dommy!
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Or just use TaskRabbit.
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. My niece and her partner drive for TaskRabbit. She said they spend a lot time driving to/from SF on food related trips.
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What are people ordering? Either from LA to SF, or from SF here to LA?
Would it not be cheaper to have the TaskRabbit buy the foodstuff, pack it up for FedEx overnight than to have them drive it nearly 400 some odd miles?
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Both… It’s probably big orders for parties. But you know, some people like to waste money.
Might as well just fly . The six + hours drive time you could add that to your time while doing business in SF or LA minus the hour flight .
Youngsters 
. I just want her to go back college.
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$28/hour x absolute minimum of 7 hours driving and pickup = $194.
I would assume you would have to pay them for the return trip? Or else why would anyone do it? So must be a minimum of $388…
I’d be curious about how that works in reality.
I’d drive some pastries to SF from LA or vice versa for ~$400 though. Not too bad of cash to make the drive.
She would make less money at a regular job if she’s making $400 a day driving food from LA to SF I think. Doing that 5 days a week is $104,000 a year. College won’t do much for her really. Help her save up and start investing instead.
You could fly roundtrip for half that price (like on Southwest). Granted, it might be hard to transport large quantities of perishables on a flight.
That’s not net.
The cost of wear and tear on a car alone would eat into that significantly.
Lets do the back-of-the-napkin math. 5/days a week roundtrip to SF-LA would mean about 800/day, which mean 4,000 miles a week. Or 16,000 miles a month. Or over 190,000 miles a year. Gah. Aside from tires, oil changes, spark plugs, transmission fluids, shocks, breaks, there’s also the issue of auto insurance and … wait for it … gas. And really, after 190,000 in one year, it’s probably time for a new car.
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That’s true, you’d need to buy a new car every year but it would be tax deductible as a business expenses I assume, which would be nice.
I’m sure you wouldn’t need a luxury car, maybe get last years model of used Prius every year? $20,000. You could probably do it for less.
Even with such an expense you are still making $84,000 a year buying the new car. Seems alright. Better than most straight-out-of-college jobs. Even if $9,000 a year for maintenance before switching it out you could still be making $75,000. Not exactly total shit.
Yeah but clearly people are just eating money here… There is no thought or into it. It must be people with a ton of disposable income and very little time. They can’t fly to SF themselves to pickup 2 dozen pastries from B Patisserie and FedEx won’t ship them I guess so their only option is Task Rabbit drivers. Obviously anyone with the free time and concerned even slightly with cost would just fly up themselves… Bbir those people aren’t the target market.
You’re forgetting gas and routine maintenance. And how many cars can really go for 200k/year without issues? For that matter, how many cars can go 200k/year, period.
You two are a crack-up… smarty pants.
Yes there are advantages and disadvantages. It does have to be done by car. Yes, they are making good money. Yes, It is a lot of wear & tear on the car. But they also said it’s really taxing and hard to maintain a normal lifestyle.
Chevy Impalas could do it.
Actually that is another good question though. I honk these people have to pay for gas as well. The $28/hour is just for their time as far as I know.
I guess that’s another like $120+ so up to about $515 per trip of course…but these people don’t care.
Regardless, just a tough shitty way to make a living.
Granted, no TaskRabbit is doing roundtrip LA-SF day-in-day-out, but if there was such a person, what a shitty life for a year. Just shitty. I-5 over and over again.
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Just win the Powerball and then have your driver Chauncy whisk you around in a Rolls Royce.
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