u/T_P_H_

Love the car but managing media is ass.

Playing music from USB is an exercise is shoving an ice pick in to your eye.

can’t create playlists, doesn’t resume play when you get in the car. Can’t browse or search while moving. Can’t scroll.

Tried anexplorer, audio wagon, the stock USB app.

Audiowagon I have to give it permission every single time I get in the car to access the USB drive.

Fucking with NUCO2 has been a pastime for me for a decade+.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BarOwners/comments/1mpu6tr/fn_nuco2

Fun fact, NUCO2 just re-added powermonitor rent to my most recent bill.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BarOwners/comments/ubvml5/who_use_nuco2_check_yo_bills

4 1/2 years ago I had them pull their nitrogen generator. At the rent I was being charged when I had them pull it I was paying $316.94 a month. I would have spent just shy of $16,480 in rent on it since then (assuming they didn't increase the price). Factoring in their historical rate increases on the bulk tank I still have from them I would have spent in excess of $20,000. That $7682.94 nitrogenerator I bought and installed sure looks pretty f'n good right now. I would probably be paying $6k in rent on it per year by now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BarOwners/comments/gi2l8y/nuco2_thats_just_rude_man/

I still have their 250lb bulk tank. Four years ago that tank cost $123.03 in rent a month Three years ago that tank cost $140.50 a month Two years ago that tank cost $159.03 a month. That tank this year costs $188.02 a month.

14 years ago the rent on that tank was $47.88. A 14 year increase of almost 300%. Meanwhile CPI/Inflation was about 45% over that same time period.

That's a 53% increase in four years. It's bullshit. It's not like that tank is a recurring cost for them. That tank was manufactured in 2004, 22 years ago. They recouped the cost of that tank in rent a very very long time ago. It costs them nothing to have it sitting on location. It's not a wear item and requires no maintenance. Them repeatedly cranking up the cost to rent it

I finally pulled the trigger and bought my own bulk CO2 (Carbomizer 450lb) and installed it last month.

I paid $3k for a 450 Carbomizer. At the current $188.02 in rent for their tank the ROI is 16 months. Assuming another 9% rent increase next year rent would jump to $204.94. ROI then drops to 13 months.

NUCO2 bulk CO2 is currently $0.71/lb. Last year it was $0.61/lb. Four years ago it was $0.47/lb. A four year increase of 51%

I can get bulk CO2 from Ozarcgas @ $0.55/lb. With the larger 450lb tank I would only need a delivery every 3 to 4 months.

Taking on 400lbs at a time:
NUCO2 = $284 Ozarc = $220

NUCO2 come get your shit off my property

Fucking with NUCO2 has been a pastime for me for a decade+.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BarOwners/comments/1mpu6tr/fn_nuco2

Fun fact, NUCO2 just re-added powermonitor rent to my most recent bill.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BarOwners/comments/ubvml5/who_use_nuco2_check_yo_bills

4 1/2 years ago I had them pull their nitrogen generator. At the rent I was being charged when I had them pull it I was paying $316.94 a month. I would have spent just shy of $16,480 in rent on it since then (assuming they didn't increase the price). Factoring in their historical rate increases on the bulk tank I still have from them I would have spent in excess of $20,000. That $7682.94 nitrogenerator I bought and installed sure looks pretty f'n good right now. I would probably be paying $6k in rent on it per year by now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BarOwners/comments/gi2l8y/nuco2_thats_just_rude_man/

I still have their 250lb bulk tank. Four years ago that tank cost $123.03 in rent a month Three years ago that tank cost $140.50 a month Two years ago that tank cost $159.03 a month. That tank this year costs $188.02 a month.

14 years ago the rent on that tank was $47.88. A 14 year increase of almost 300%. Meanwhile CPI/Inflation was about 45% over that same time period.

That's a 53% increase in four years. It's bullshit. It's not like that tank is a recurring cost for them. That tank was manufactured in 2004, 22 years ago. They recouped the cost of that tank in rent a very very long time ago. It costs them nothing to have it sitting on location. It's not a wear item and requires no maintenance. Them repeatedly cranking up the cost to rent it is just pure greed.

I finally pulled the trigger and bought my own bulk CO2 (Carbomizer 450lb) and installed it last month.

I paid $3k for a 450 Carbomizer. At the current $188.02 in rent for their tank the ROI is 16 months. Assuming another 9% rent increase next year rent would jump to $204.94. ROI then drops to 13 months.

NUCO2 bulk CO2 is currently $0.71/lb. Last year it was $0.61/lb. Four years ago it was $0.47/lb. A four year increase of 51%

I can get bulk CO2 from Ozarcgas @ $0.55/lb. With the larger 450lb tank I would only need a delivery every 3 to 4 months.

Taking on 400lbs at a time: NUCO2 = $284 Ozarc = $220

NUCO2 come get your shit off my property

Does anyone have a bulk fryer oil tank that you have a service that fills up rather than buying 35lb containers of fryer oil from distributors?

If so, what are you paying per lb for bulk soy oil

• UPDATE *. If you can make it through the AI bullshit the AI agent will credit you the annual service and maintenance fee but not help with any of the other bullshit fees. Shift4 must be getting absolutely hammered by merchants right now. I can not get past the AI to a real person to deal with the other fees.

• UPDATE *. Got through to a real person who could only help me with the "online ordering enablement" fee but none of the others. He had to transfer me into a hold queue and said it could be hours and admitted that they were getting absolutely hammered today by merchants.

$2000 annual service and maintenance fee put on my bill for July. (We own our equipment outright, we had it way before shit4 came into the picture). We have never got a printer, pos terminal or any other device other than the EMV readers from Shift4 which they charge me $120 a year for each one of them)

Monthly (and this is just the obvious ones) $10 x 6 ($60) emv maintenance fee (I only have 4) $20 Lighthouse portal (to access their website, you pay for that) Month End billing (they charge you to create your statement, they started this in August of last year which was .02% of total transactions. In March of this year they increased that 250% to .05% of total transactions)

Quarterly there is the new "Debit Enablement Quarterly" fee of $20. Which they created in June of 2025.

In May they changed the line from "lighthouse portal" to "customer hub"

In July I had the $2000 annual sevice fee (I own my own pos system) a $6 chargeback that they charged me a "incoming chargeback fee" of $35 to process. They added a new $34.99 for "online ordering enablement" which we don't have online ordering.

My brother was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer just over two years ago. He just entered hospice care today. My brother is a retired US Army Chinook pilot. After combat tours in the Phillipines (Abu Sayyaf/Dos Palmas kidnappings), two tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan he flew another 12 years for Arch as a medivac pilot.

For loved ones, as I'm sure you are aware, the futility of not being able to do anything to change the course of your loved ones life is so fucking depressing.

I can't do anything for him but I can try to honor him.

I own a bar & grill that is normally closed on Mondays. I have spoken to staff both current and former about donating their time and tips to open on a Monday from 12am-8pm. I have spoken to distributors who are going to donate product.

I plan to give 100% of the revenue from the day to a Pancreatic Research charity in my brothers name.

I am looking for suggestions for Pancreatic charties that have a very low overhead ratio (where the majority of the money goes to either research or support for victims). I would prefer one in the midwest as we are in the Metro St. Louis region.

I welcome suggestions.

My brother was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer just over two years ago. He just entered hospice care today. My brother is a retired US Army Chinook pilot. After combat tours in the Phillipines (Abu Sayyaf/Dos Palmas kidnappings), two tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan he flew another 12 years for Arch as a medivac pilot.

For loved ones, as I'm sure you are aware, the futility of not being able to do anything to change the course of your loved ones life is so fucking depressing.

I can't do anything for him but I can try to honor him.

I own a bar & grill that is normally closed on Mondays. I have spoken to staff both current and former about donating their time and tips to open on a Monday from 12am-8pm. I have spoken to distributors who are going to donate product.

I plan to give 100% of the revenue from the day to a Pancreatic Research charity in my brothers name.

I am looking for suggestions for Pancreatic charties that have a very low overhead ratio (where the majority of the money goes to either research or support for victims). I would prefer one in the midwest as we are in the Metro St. Louis region.

I welcome suggestions.

Anyone have any installed? If so, what’s your experience been having them?

Iiam really really beginning to hate all of the restaurants in my area using AI to generate their images in social media posts.

It’s all a bunch of homogenized same same crap. Particularly when it comes to the representation of food in the images. That isn’t your burger. You didn’t just get a sweet still shot of your wings jumping off the plate into the air with confetti.

Particularly egregious, staff photos with years and pounds shaved off smiling in a oh so tight tank top holding a plate of fake ai levitating pork shanks