https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/14/what-a-shock-torontos-anti-capitalist-cafe-closing-down-after-just-a-year-in-business/
commie coffee very OT but funny
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Reply by ●May 14, 20232023-05-14
On Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 11:51:24 PM UTC+10, 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/Not a business that Breitbart could be expected to write up positively, or accurately. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Reply by ●May 14, 20232023-05-14
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.” 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 ●May 14, 20232023-05-14
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/
Reply by ●May 14, 20232023-05-14
On Sun, 14 May 2023 06:49:52 -0700, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:> >https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/14/what-a-shock-torontos-anti-capitalist-cafe-closing-down-after-just-a-year-in-business/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 ●May 14, 20232023-05-14
On Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 9:51:24 AM UTC-4, 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/That kind of thing is not at all unusual for Toronto.
Reply by ●May 15, 20232023-05-15
On Sun, 14 May 2023 06:49:52 -0700, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:> >https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/14/what-a-shock-torontos-anti-capitalist-cafe-closing-down-after-just-a-year-in-business/Rent squeeze - with mortgage money cost rising 'investors' need more from renters to make real estate 'pay'. Hits lower-cost rental areas harder. RL
Reply by ●May 15, 20232023-05-15
On 2023-05-14 12:52, John Larkin wrote:> 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/ >https://youtu.be/iuE_a1pTsO4 Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 http://electrooptical.net http://hobbs-eo.com
Reply by ●May 15, 20232023-05-15
On 2023-05-15 11:49, legg wrote:> On Sun, 14 May 2023 06:49:52 -0700, John Larkin > <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote: > >> >> https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/14/what-a-shock-torontos-anti-capitalist-cafe-closing-down-after-just-a-year-in-business/ > > Rent squeeze - with mortgage money cost rising 'investors' > need more from renters to make real estate 'pay'. > > Hits lower-cost rental areas harder. > > RL >Why the scare quotes? Cheers Phil Hobbs
