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Restaurant Charcuterie and Tap To Pay - TICKED OFF TUESDAY - The JTrain Podcast w Jared Freid
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Uncle J Train
I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a Ticked off Tuesday. Ticked Off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday.
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Jared Freed
Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Nashville, Tennessee. That's right, every Tuesday is a tick tough Tuesday. Are you angry? Do you have a gripe? Do you got a problem with the world? Well, I want you to send it into Ticked Off Tuesday because this is the only podcast on the Internet that you can complain about anything. And there's. And I'm going to complain with you. I'm never going to listen to your complaint and go, well, there's, there's bigger problems. No, there's no bigger problems. There's your problems. And that's why you come into TikTok Tuesday with your complaints. And we complain together. A complaint duet. We will sing the song of Whining, a glorious song for us to sing. If you want your ticked off Tuesday read on the show. I'm looking. We got three ticked off Tuesdays. Two of them are from Patreon subscribers. So if you are a Patreon subscriber, you get first dibs. Patreon.com Jared Freed you also get coffee with J Train. This this week's Coffee with J Train. I talk about shows in Rochester and how I haven't been drinking lately. I also talk about a golf injury. I was almost taken off. Yeah, I was. I, I almost, I, I have never felt pain like that. So I talk all about that on Patreon. Patreon patreon.com Jared Freed Coffee with J Train it's every Tuesday or I am all over the place. It is every Friday so it rounds out your week. Also, the Patreon subscribers, they can comment on Coffee with J Train with their complaint and they will be read first here every Tuesday on TikTok Tuesday. That is what you get with the membership. So I have three complaints here as far as announcements go. We have the Live View, a podcast coming at the end of April. I would love for you to come. It is a dating talk show. It's a lot of fun. We do dating app makeovers we take audience questions, we play deal, reveal, red flag, deal breaker. It's a great time. Assemble the group, chat, go to jared free.com. we got three complaints, and then I have my own complaint. And we have two sponsors. The sponsors are in the description of the episode. So remember, support them if they can support you. Let's get to my complaint. I'm in Nashville. Okay. There is an area called the Gulch. The Gulch is the. The area where all the things that make a millennial feel comfy, cozy are. That's where the bachelorette party's gonna go and have their brunch. They're gonna. And I went and worked out at Barry's Boot Camp. Barry's Boot Camp is gonna be in that area. No matter what the the town is. Whatever town I'm in, if the Barry's Boot Camp is there, I know there's gonna be the nice hotel, the cool brunch spot, the coffee place, the place to get food. You know, all these things. An Athleta Lululemon. And listen, I'm not saying you have to like these areas. I'm just saying those areas are where I feel very comfortable. And I feel like I've seen these stores and places. Jenny's Ice Cream. I used to call it the Millennial comforter, because you're getting it and you feel comfy, cozy, and you feel like you really are in the town, but you're not in the town. You know, you've seen this part of the town in other towns. So I went to Barry's Boot Camp to work out the other day, and. Which is great. On the road. I love doing a class on the road. It takes away the whole, like, did I do enough in the hotel gym? Do they have my stuff? No. No. Now you're out of your head. You're paying someone else to train you, and once the hour's done, you've done the workout for the day, you're out. You're easy peasy, beautiful cover girl. So I go to Barry's Boot Camp, and I brought with me my headphones, the key to my room, and my phone, thinking I'm going in an Uber to Barry's. I'm going to do the class. I can get a coffee there, and you can put it on your account at Barry's, and then I'll get in an Uber and go home. I get done with the class, and I asked the person working the desk, I was like, you know what? Where can I get a coffee? And they're like, yeah, down the Street. There's a good coffee place inside the hotel. So I go to this coffee place, and this isn't really a complaint about the coffee place. It's more a complaint about the area of town I was in. Because I get in line thinking I am in tap to pay land. I think we can all agree that if you see a Lululemon, if you see a Barry's Boot Camp, if you see a Jenny's ice Cream, you can go wallet free and be pretty confident, because I go to this coffee shop in the hotel, beautiful coffee shop. It's busy. I go to the front, and I say, I'll have an Americano with a little bit of vanilla, short on water. That's my go to. I'm healthy. Look at me. Order. The woman at the counter could not have been nicer. She goes, got you. She's personable. We're making eye contact. I'm like, this is the coffee experience I want. And I'm in the area of town where nothing's wrong and everything's perfect and, hi, how are you? Good to see you. Oh, they got a deal at Lululemon, do they? It's all gumdrops and jelly beans. She takes my order. What's your name? I said, jared. She goes, jerry. I go, jared. She goes, oh, no problem. So sorry. She's being nice and sweet and very Tennessee. And then she says, well, that'll be 495, whatever the cost was. So I take out my phone to do tap to pay. She goes, oh, we're stuck in the stone Age. We don't have tap to pay. And I'm like. And I said to her, I go, I'm sorry. I guess I'm gonna have to cancel my order. I have to cancel my order. I don't. I didn't bring a wallet with me. I kind of. And I said to her, I go, I shouldn't have assumed. I. And again, this isn't my complaint with the coffee place or the people working there. I go, I shouldn't have assumed. And she goes, now, listen, I got your coffee. Just keep going. And out of the goodness of her heart. And listen, I am. Can't be more thankful to her. I cannot believe that in this area of town, we weren't in, like, even on Broadway. Broadway in Nashville is, like, where all the bachelorette parties. I would understand a place there not having tap to pay. They're like, no, no, no. Give us a credit card. We got to take off. We got to do a full sw. But I'm in Millennial comforter zone land. To me, to have a business in this area, Tap to pay is just, you have to have it. I can't. I could not believe the cool coffee shop doesn't have the tap to pay option. And honestly, this should be like. It should be a sign that's like, you have arrived in tap to pay land. You have gotten to the section of town where you only need a phone and do. And if you look up from phone, it would be weird. This part of town, everyone's gonna be looking at their phone, paying with their phone on their phone all the time. And I was like, I was just like, I guess my complaint is living in right now, being a millennial, 2025, being that our generation, my generation is this in between of between the analog and digital world. My parents will always bring a wallet. Gen Z will never bring a wallet. I'm bringing a wallet, a phone. I'm getting my parents into the Netflix. I'm also making sure that I'm not being offensive to Gen Z. I'm just, I have to always be on patrol for every situation, in any situation, at any time. And this coffee is just an example of one of those times that I fell through the cracks and forgot for two seconds that the world is somehow between analog and digital, that I lost myself. And I was so annoyed just at the plight of the society of it all. Just the idea that like, not for. I took my eye off the ball for one second and the world was like, oh, you forgot you're a millennial. You forgot that you got to bring your wallet and your birth certificate and all your paper copies of all your receipts. But also knowing how to get into the Netflix and edit a video so that you can put up your tiktoks. You forgot that you have to know everything. Gotcha, bitch. J train podcast gmail.com j train podcastima.com, we are sponsored. Nutrafol summer is coming and you'll want to take off that sweaty hat eventually. Stop trying to camouflage your hair issues and get neutrophil. Nutrafol is the number one dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement brand trusted by over 1 million people. See thicker, stronger, faster, growing hair with less shedding in just three to six months with Nutrafol formulated by physicians using 100% drug free ingredients. Support healthy hair growth from the inside out. Here's the thing about Nutrafol. I love that we're giving you an over the counter option before you get into all the other hair stuff that's out there. 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If you don't want to pay screenshots are beloved here on TikTok Tuesday. I believe the time has come for standardized coffee cups across Let me read this again. I believe the time has come for standardized coffee cup sizes across all coffee shops. Everyone's small, medium and large should be the same. I totally agree. It is crazy that you I it's crazy that our hand should have to adjust every time for every coffee shop, for every type of cup. The, the one that's over insulated, the one that's not insulated enough. The one it's just, there's just. It is unbelievable to me that we haven't figured this out. They're right. Nothing is more annoying than one coffee shop small being another's medium, et cetera. And then the pricing of one place is small. Is the price of a medium somewhere else. The pricing on coffee is crazy. You think you've nailed it and then you go to a place and you're like you're selling this for what it is. To me they have a thing called the Whopper index where they compare. Or is it the Big Mac index? Something like that. It was an economic thing. I think it's the Big Mac index. It would make more sense that it was McDonald's, but it was basically saying that the power of your dollar and so if you can get a Big Mac in New York for this Much money. Then where do you get. It was the Big Mac is consistent. New York, London, you know, Hong Kong, California, Mexico. You get the Big Mac wherever you go. And it was like, okay, well how much is it where you go? And that's how much your dollar is worth. So this is kind of the same thing where you go like if I go to like Wisconsin and get a small coffee and it's 250 and then I go get that same coffee in New York and it's 5:50, I'm losing all this dollar power just by being in New York. When you. And so this is what they're talking about. When you walk into a shop to order a medium and get told it's small or large. It's so annoying. Thanks for the laughs. An overly or under caffeinated gal. I'm with you. This is annoying. It is just annoying because when you order a coffee, you don't going for the coffee. You're paying whatever they say to you. I was watching, I just, I just played golf here in, in Nashville and there was a frost delay. So I was like in the clubhouse just sitting and a bunch of guys were talking and they were like holding up their coffee. They're like, it's 9.95 for this coffee. And it was like a gas station iced coffee. And I was with them because it's like, what are you gonna do? Turn and leave the gas station? You're getting it, you might not come back, but you're getting it there and you're not finding this out. It's like the answer comes at the way end. I will tell you, there is a place in New York that I get coffee from. And so when I get an Americano, I get a short Americano, American espresso with water. And I have them put a little vanilla in it. St. George's in the West Village. It costs $3.25. And I said to them, I go, I said this the other day. I go, do you realize your coffee is very, is very cheap? And the person working the register goes, I talk about it all the time. They were like, I know, it's crazy. They were like, I think they go, I think we have the best deal in the city. And I said, I think you do. I go, I notice it every time you go to places where they're not even taking care. You know this place Saint Geor is baking stuff. They have the coffee, they have the nice espresso machine, 325. And like you want to look at them and go, thank you. You want to thank them because of all these other places and then you feel less than you like. All these other places are ripping me off. All these other places could have charged 325 because St. George's isn't in a gas station. It is on 7th Avenue. A beautiful space. They let you sit, they got nice things. They have good bakery. And you. If you can charge 325. What am I doing spending 550 in another place? What? They just. They're just screwing me. J train podcast@gmail.com J train podcast@gmail.com we have one more sponsor. Again, support the sponsors. If they can help you, that helps the show. If the. OH and also YouTube. YouTube, YouTube. I'm putting up stand up every Saturday. I'm paying to put this up. I would love for you to get involved. I want you to like it and comment and all that stuff. YouTube.com jaredfried if the last time you thought about your credit score was never you need Ava. Ava is a credit building app that makes it super simple to improve your credit fast so you can get better rates on loans, pay off debt faster and keep more money in your pocket. Instead of waiting months for a secured card, Ava gives you up to $2,500 in credit instantly. Listen, having good credit is so important and it's going to help your life immensely. 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I've heard it's beautiful. Sounds great for a nicer ski village and town. The food there was so mediocre and expensive. Think bland French fries from multiple restaurants and simple pasta pomodoro from an Italian restaurant that was so flavorless, I had to ask the waiter to come back with some Parmesan cheese twice. This is the problem with resort towns. Resort towns. Whether it's ski resort or beach resort, there is no reason to make your restaurant a thousand times better. I had this problem in Hamilton Island. I was in Australia. I went to Hamilton island, and you're at the most beautiful place in the world, and the food is just, like, fine. And it's exactly what you're saying. And honestly, you're there for the vacation. You're there for something else. They know you're stuck there. It's not like you're gonna go anywhere else. There's 10 places on the island, and in the ski village. There's probably 10 places in the ski village, and they know. They go, as long as we're good enough to make it. So these. Because there's no. You're not coming back. And if you are coming back, it's because of the mountain, not because of the restaurant. So this is a lesson in capitalism. This is incentives. This is a pro incentives argument, you're saying. Because I guess what it's saying is if someone was to open a restaurant, go to a ski town, go to a, you know, a mountain town, go. But the problem is, what's the incentive? Oh, we went, and you have to go to this restaurant, and then. I don't know. I don't know. I think that's the problem here, is there's a lack of incentives. There's a lack of need to be the best restaurant in Tremblant. They go, well, why would we get better ingredients? Why would we service people better? They're going to come. They're only coming for the ski mountain. We're just the, you know, whatever. On top of that, I had this Hamilton Island. I was like everyone said, had nice things say about Hamilton Island. You go, look it up. It is out of White Lotus. It is Jurassic Park. The food. There you go. Shouldn't they have better food? Shouldn't this be. But it's because you're on the island, you ain't going nowhere. What are you going to do, complain on Yelp? They're going to have people coming into the. They have the same amount of hotel rooms, and they got to go to dinner. So they're gonna go to the one of 10 places I went. The best place was the Fusion place I went to on Hamilton Island. But it was fine. It wasn't like. But I had a few drinks that night. So, you know my memory of, like, what it was. But I. It is. It's the thing about being on vacation where it's the vacation tax you're gonna pay, and it's a little bit. And if you think too long about it, as this person did, and I agree with them, when you think about these restaurants and places on vacation, the coffee place, the breakfast place, the lunch place, the dinner place, it is as if, when it's no good and it's just fine and they're charging an exorbitant price, it's them looking at you going, where else are you going to go? What are you going to do about it? Nothing. Because you're going back to the mountain. You're going back home and you're gonna tell people how great your vacation is and you're gonna forget about us and who cares? What are you gonna do about it, Punk? That's what. That's what these restaurants are saying. You can complain to nobody. It. It's like they're dominating you. Get back on the mountain, eat your stupid pomodoro and get your ass up the mountain and start skiing. That's what they're saying. Because they don't care. They know. They know what they're doing. Eat your $40 Pomodoro and get the fuck out of my face is what they're saying to you. That's the annoying part. J train podcast gmail.com ticked off Tuesday Every Tuesday I'm looking at. This is not a. This is not from Patreon. They sent a screenshot which we love. Ticked off Tuesday. Jared. My sisters and I recently decided to treat ourselves and went out to dinner at a nice restaurant together. Love it. We ordered the charcuterie board as an appetizer and we're very perplexed to see. We ordered the charcuterie board as an appetizer and we were very perplexed to see when it hit the T. I got to reread this. I. We ordered the charcuterie board as an appetizer and we were very perplexed to see it when it hit our table. Let me just say, I know you wrote into ticked off Tuesday. I'm angry for you. I know what's coming. But I'm going to give you some feedback. You should never order a charcuterie board at a restaurant. You should never order a charcuterie board at a restaurant. It's never been good. You should never order something that you don't have to turn on an oven or a microwave or a stovetop to make a baby could make it. So why are you ordering at a restaurant where they have no incentive to give you the extra meat, the extra carbs? They always under carb you. They always under meat you. They always under cheese you. They always overdo the stuff you don't want grapes and jams and figs. They overdo that. But you have nothing to put that fig spread on because they give you one cracker. There has never been a charcuterie board at a restaurant that's worth ordering. And every time I see a charcuterie board on the menu at a restaurant that is a restaurant challenging me, they're tempting me. That is the restaurant going, we dare you. We dare you to get screwed over by us. Come on, idiot. Order the charcuterie. Waste your money. That's what they're saying. It almost looked as if it had been delivered fully assembled to another table. They ate it and then we accidentally got their scraps. I'm looking at the picture honestly. It looks like the toy version of a charcuterie. It looks like the Play DOH version. That would be in the commercial or in the magazine. This looks like your kids were given Play DOH and it was a charcuterie set to make their own douchey little kid charcuterie. I'm not going to pretend we know what the menu description said. See attached. But we've had quite a few charcuterie boards in our day and this wasn't and up to snuff. No, you're never going to get a charcuterie board that's up to snuff at a restaurant. I'm looking at this plate. It honestly looks like they went to a candy shop and someone threw some candy meat shaped candies onto a plate. We didn't end up saying anything, but we are. We still bring it up and laugh about it from time to time. Attaching a photo of the board so you can see the evidence sign, char shittery board. No, but I'm complaining with you. But I'm also blaming you ordering a charcuterie at a restaurant. If I was at a restaurant at a group situation and someone's like, oh, we should get the charcuterie board. I'd be like, we should never go to dinner together ever again. Oh, we should get the charcuterie board. You and I should stop being friends. We obviously don't connect on anything. Ordering a charcuterie at a restaurant is like saying to the Restaurant. Here's my money. Now you can burn it. Now go ahead. You can take my money and light it on fire. They have no incentive to give you more than they're going to under. They're just going to underdo it. This is. Is there even bread? I see a bread basket. We're going to post this on Instagram. Go follow the J Train Instagram account. I mean, this is horrific. And I. I'm not blaming you. I'm just saying this restaurant was playing off of your need to have this sexy, dainty sister's night. You guys wanted to be refined. You wanted to have your wine glass. You guys were more interested in a look than you were the food. And now you're paying the price. What did you think was going to come out from the kitchen? You thought they were going to bring out a whole boat of meats and cheeses? I can't understand what anyone thinks when they order from a restaurant. A charcuterie board. And I'm with you. This is horrible. I would have called over the waiter and been like, hey, so where's the charcuterie board? And they would have pointed at this plate, and I would have looked at them. I'd go, this is it. Really? Okay. Yeah. So. And then I would have counted three pieces of salami. So we each get one salami, huh? And we're gonna. I mean, who even put this together? This literally looks like they were across the restaurant and they were throwing meats at a plate, and then every time it landed on someone, you know, the. The busboy would high five the chef and be like, yo, me, 10 bucks. The complaint is that there should be a law against putting charcuterie boards on restaurant menus. It's just. You didn't turn on an oven. A baby could do this. A baby. It looks like a baby did do this. We'll put it up on the Instagram. Ticked off Tuesday, back next week, boom.