So, i work here in Boston at Baja Betty’s Burrito’s. Actually, we’re technically in Brookline. And that being so, our fiercest competitor is Anna’s Taqueria. Anna’s is the more hip mexican restaurant between Coolidge Corner and Allston on Harvard St. where college kids flock to get their 2-week-old crusty bean and bland tomato burrito’s at more affordable prices. Yes, Anna’s is cheaper than Betty’s. Thus more popular.
However i’ve been bored lately at work (since not many people are coming in prepared to drop good money (roughly $8-$10) on a GOOD burrito) and i was taking a look at “the books”, you know where all our sales numbers are recorded. Betty’s has been open for 12 long years in the very same spot. Last summer our owner made minimal profit, which ended up going back into the place to spruce it up this past winter (especially when our other owner left to start a spin-off store in Kendall Square, which i am told is much like Betty’s only much much worse– i like to think of it as the Joannie Loves Chachi to our Happy Days).
But this summer we did really good business and my boss should theoretically be pulling in a few grand in profit. But, sadly, he is not. Why, you ask? Because of the outrageous food costs in our dwindling American economy, that’s why. Now, i am not a man who possesses any glimmer or reflection of financial intelligence, and most of the problems involving money are right over my head (i mean, hell, my mom handles my student loans and just tells me when i need to pay money post-college). But it seems pretty absurd that we can’t make a dime’s worth of profit while ordering lemons that are almost $80 a case or cheese for almost $100 a case!
And yet people still have the nerve to come in and complain like fucking ungracious whining/teething babies that we don’t have carne esada (in their defense, just about all our clientele is pregnant bitches in their late twenties)… we don’t have it because we can’t afford it!!!
