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Wouldn't it be funny if Marten had too much and drunkenly made a pass at the cute girl he spends all his time with?
If Jeph wrote it? No.
Who is BT (aside from obviously a bartender somewhere)? Have we met this Rowboat before, or is this a "remember the new guy" thing?
And unless I'm missing something, the large majority of small businesses aren't precarious at all. New startups are, since so many people are clueless morons even worse than Marten at planning and managing (notice Jeph deliberately skipped the whole "opening a cafe" phase) and it turns out a town of 10,000 can only support so many poke bowl restaurants.
BOO GET OFF THE STAGE
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SIMPLY BEING LOVED YEAH YEAH
Probably in a strip or two, years ago when they went to a bar in Cubetown
40% of businesses fail within the first three years, 49.9% within five years, 65.8% within 10 years, 73.3% within 15 years, and nearly 80% within 20 years
I got this from googling. running a business is hard, and it's easy to make mistakes. if your parents have money you can fuck up for years and eventually figure out how to run a successful business
With that in mind, does Anh have enough business acumen to keep Union Robotics alive?
He'll sleep with BT (or some other male presenting robot)
And a proportionally large amount of those businesses are restaurants, bars, and cafes. Those traditionally have very thin margins and need a lot of sales and very good business acumen to stay open.
You guys do realize this is going to be run exactly like Coffee of Doom where we never actually see any business happening but it's just always going and successful enough right?
Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm huntin' dbawus
Jeph has no idea where money comes from.
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No I'm not gonna bother saving and posting the strips, you can blow me and find your own way out of the rabbit hole from hell that is this strip once you use the random button.
I've seen such stats, but they don't feel reliable to me for several reasons. Does fail="failed", or "closed, reasons unknown? Is it parsed from all the many reasons that business close that have nothing to do with turning enough of a profit to sustain a business, from shell companies that served their purpose, to "I created a business entity for my Uber driving," to "owner had a heart attack and keeled into a tray of cupcakes"? The only stat that feels close to reality is the first one in terms of counting actual specific financial failure, because logically if it's a bad business plan it'll keel over sooner rather than later.
I've directly known many small businesses that 'failed' but had nothing to do the finances, from a woman who did some art with her husbands money and never expected profit (dead along with the relationship), to retired people who consulted in their former profession or did the independent version of it for a few years before they retired all the way. Some guy doing 2 home inspections a week for 6 years until social security kicked in did not have a failing business.
I've seem this too. Marten does have a cafe, on an island full of beings with no need for coffee, but apparently it's the only cafe and the willingness of people to pay 10x for someone to take longer to prepare a beverage for them than they could at home (how fucking hard is water+instant coffee less bitter than any Starbucks+cream+flavoring!? Wait, you paid 4 bucks for hot water and a TEABAG!?) will always baffle me, so who knows.
Unless the human population is going to substantially rise however, if he isn't already doing at least okay with that New Opening bump, I'd say he's screwed in the long term. The people who would go to a cafe should already be his customers by now.
Is Claire their favorite character?
"Bartholomew Tender"
...Look, it's a robot, he clearly picked it for the gag. But why would someone choose BT over the opportunity to say Bartholomew every time? Cool as fuck first name, and it's hidden in initials? Shoulda named him Barney Tender, that I'd understand.
Jeph was very good about showing customers until the Patreonbux started rolling in and he stopped making an effort, and logically the times the characters would talk is not during busy periods but the inevitable slowdowns (yes, characters regularly walk in whenever to zero customers, see the first part).
"Bart Tender"
I am truly baffled that you didn't see that I understood that.
Adding alcohol AFTER the mixer
Shit bar tender.
The 'Barney Tender' threw me off a bit.
Makes me wonder if the guy in Falling Down was trying to start a restaurant.
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Jeph can't do that because it would make Claire a stepping stone from him being (supposedly) straight to bi/gay.
Cubetown does appear to have a sizeable human population and, perhaps most important, he apparently has no real competition.
And yet it's implied that he's barely scraping by, or possibly still in the red, during what should basically be the honeymoon phase where people will experiment and try new things. Either he didn't make enough of an impression for enough people to switch to getting drinks at his place to cover reasonable costs, or his costs are unreasonable and too high for the market to cover.
he apparently has no real competition.
You gotta compete with the Mr. Coffee pot in the kitchen/break room of the lab building.
He completely botched the opening of his shop. People don't even know it exists yet. It's a plain empty shop that's just a coffee machine and nothing more. And the worst part is that he doesn't even seem to care. He's more invested in teasing Liz.
living the life
where the FUCK is the slime girl
He doesn't need to succeed, Claire is the HNIC of Cubetown so his shop doesn't need to be profitable and the entire premise of Cubetown is "it's whacky and dysfunctional" so it won't even matter if it is or isn't
While he is far more lackadaisical than he should be to make a successful business, without competition, existing within a closed system, and the fact that his SO is highly ranked within the organization makes up for a lot of failings. Think of it more like that one restaurant in a small down that has survived for decades despite lousy food because everyone knows it and there isn't another restaurant around without making a 30 minute drive.
The same way food in your fridge competes with McDonalds.
how fucking hard is water+instant coffee less bitter than any Starbucks+cream+flavoring
Bean-brewed coffee is way better than any instant slop. But, yeah, I don't understand this
to pay 10x for someone to take longer to prepare a beverage for them
part too. Probably a way to socialize for normies, I guess?
The big government piggy bank that never ever runs out?
Is it true that the author of this webcomic has a fart fetish or is that just a meme?
The trust of the public.
he has so many other weirder fetishes that not only is that one a meme I don't know where that would come from
Slime girls and vore I'd believe
If I had complete financial security, I'd spend all my time teasing her nips too.