re: Chain Lovers Alert, Red Lob, Olive Grdn Failing

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They are good and marketing and good and running a business. That does not mean that their food all that good. Our country is overrun with fast food and shitty restaurants

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IMO, that is largely because they are business minds rather than food minds getting into the business solely for business reasons and the P&L dictates their principles alone. Those who really need to be opening restaurants, those with food principles and love for great food, don't have the kind of money or equity to go to a bank and get a loan, so if they do they have to find a backer who usually has no food principles themselves, OR, more than likely, they end up working an arse load of hours for 50-60k a year, get out of the business entirely, get married and have to settle down, or a few select few will get a real break and make it happen, usually in places where the value on food is at a premium. It's a cycle that usually ends up keeping poor food choices in areas without breaking that cycle.