Other than your sister, I'm not sure anybody actually buys those things.

One of the places our family even knows the owner I worked there making pizza when I was a teenager

The main reason was the price...you can't go wrong for a pie at $6.

Doubly so at 4am.

You don't care, too much, where it came from.

and other things made

The cost, or maybe a person who is accustomed/raised on low quality food could keep the taste for it later when they can afford better.

Somedays its just got to be Kraft Mac n cheese out of the box even when I have all the fixings, tools and time to make the better tasting homemade mac n cheese.

No explaining it.

But as long as you call the other stuff pasta with cheese sauce, I'm good with that. But to me, Kraft is Mac and Cheese. My brain is a strange place.

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Although I have plenty of "real" food at home,

it's not unusual for me to nuke something quick or crackers and cheeses with dip when the munchies hit.

Buying a pizza already made rather than waiting for a better one to be made is something I can relate to.

Hell, the whole continent is addicted to "fast-food" - I suspect places like McDonald's, Wendy's, Kentucky Fried et al grab more of the prepared food market than restaurants do where you actually have WAIT for the food to be cooked! (heaven forbid!!!)

'tis what we have become

(sigh)

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My house is filled with quick snacks.

The line in most 7-11's I've seen, have you go right past the little counter where they have the heated food. The pizza they have is a pretty small slice, just the right size for a quick snack and worst of all... It usually looks like it will taste pretty decent. It never does... It's always completely tasteless at best but while it is sitting there it actually does look like it will taste decent.

The place down the block will need half an hour to 45 minutes to get you food. It's much shorter at 7-11.

do pizza by the slice for just like a quick lunch maybe I'm wrong but I do know the one I was referring to does do by the slice and he even gives our family a discount cause he's known us since we moved there

The one my youngest brother works for, basically refuses even though it'd make them an additional $1000/month easy. It's in the center of a New England village which is adding 3-5 businesses a month at 10-30 employees each and there's no place to grab a grab-and-go lunch other than the convenience store because the town banned fast food.

They'd have the market cornered and double their daily business if they did a 2-premium-slices-and-a-soda special, tax included, at either $5 or $6 even. (It's an honest rip-off if you do the math but people willingly pay it because it's a nice flat fast number, no change, just bring your 5-spot, grab your food and go. High volume, high speed, good pizza, great margins.)

That's the problem with most of these food bans they go too far

They're not in the same category, the owner's just lazy.

The ban bans fast food chains and chain retailers. All of them. Every business in the center is locally-owned and run. I think this is a great thing and it was done overwhelmingly by referendum. The people of the town don't want any chains, franchises or major retailers so they banned them; no business with more than 10 locations may open. Not a fast-food chain, not a CVS, Sherwin-Williams Paint, 7-11, Staples or anything. Only local small businesses.

What there is, is a void for local business offering a fast-dining option. That was not what the town's people wanted when they passed the ban. The previous owner offered grab-and-go hot gourmet lunch options. Then the current owner bought the place as a hobby and anything that requires effort, she discontinued. There is no fast dining option now in the town center now and there won't be until either the existing businesses offer one or someone opens a new business and offers one.

I suggested that she could and should return to fill that void and she refused because the owner's argument was literally "I don't want to, that would increase business and cut into my ability to watch Days of our Lives because I'd have to work. That's more important to me, {her boyfriend} will pay the bills if we don't make enough." (It is literally a hobby for her, one she's only interested in as far as it carries the prestige of being a business owner without requiring her to actually do anything or be profitable.)

Her employees all work for tips, she's fucking them over by being lazy. At the same time, she refuses to sell and she fucks over her employees when they try to leave to get better jobs.

It's a shame she did that. It's odd the idea of running a restaurant as a hobby

7-11 pizza. I had not considered that since there are none in my neighborhood, but that would definitely fit the bill.