> On Sun, 14 May 2023 12:07:36 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>
>> On 5/14/2023 9:49 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/14/what-a-shock-torontos-anti-capitalist-cafe-closing-down-after-just-a-year-in-business/
>>>
>> Restaurant longevity in general tends to follow an inverse-bathtub
>> curve, the 1 year survival rate of restaurants is probably better than
>> most small businesses:
>>
>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267695784_Only_the_Bad_Die_Young_Restaurant_Mortality_in_the_Western_US>
>>
>> “Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from
>> ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter
>> season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term.”
>
> Sounds like the real problem was bad coffee.
>
> That seems to be a pattern, people starting restaurants pushing things
> that they like but nobody else does.
>
> We had a pork belly place fail here. All they served was pork belly.
>
> The next failure will probably be the bone broth place on 24th Street.
>
> https://www.tradbonebroth.com/
>
Imagine going to a bank for a loan to start up this business.
Bank: So, tell me all about this proposition of yours."
Borrower: Yeah, okay, well, we have this unique business model. We
want to start up an anarchist cafe. Customers can pay what they like
for drinks and our motto will be "Fuck the rich. Fuck the police. Fuck
the state. Fuck the colonial death camp we call �Canada.� We just need
50 grand to get it off the ground. How 'bout it?
Bank: "Fuck off."
:-D
Reply by John Larkin●May 14, 20232023-05-14
On Sun, 14 May 2023 12:07:36 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
Sounds like the real problem was bad coffee.
That seems to be a pattern, people starting restaurants pushing things
that they like but nobody else does.
We had a pork belly place fail here. All they served was pork belly.
The next failure will probably be the bone broth place on 24th Street.
https://www.tradbonebroth.com/
Restaurant longevity in general tends to follow an inverse-bathtub
curve, the 1 year survival rate of restaurants is probably better than
most small businesses:
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267695784_Only_the_Bad_Die_Young_Restaurant_Mortality_in_the_Western_US>
“Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from
ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter
season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term.”
The same thing happens to for-profit restaurants, it takes them a year
or two to burn thru their seed capital, a lot of just-regular
restaurants are also vanity projects where the owner doesn't know how to
get out while the getting's good. Perhaps in part explaining the
inverse-bathtub curve. They made a whole show about it:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Nightmares>
"“It’s been an amazing experience, connecting with so many great
community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood
pressure of Conservatives (that includes you, “anarcho-capitalists” and
“Libertarians”)"
Seems like it served at least one of its purposes. Breitbart is one of
the few openly white supremacist, Hitler-loving newspapers that made it
big, a lot of other ones didn't make it.
Reply by Anthony William Sloman●May 14, 20232023-05-14
On Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 11:51:24 PM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote: