re: 41 locations of Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill and Fleming’s to close...

Steakhouses are for a special occasion. Cooking a steak is easy and you can buy any cut of meat almost anywhere you want nowadays. People that truly appreciate steak are probably the ones that prefer to cook it themselves.

Chain restaurants have been declining for a while now. There has been a push to eat local. Restaurant chains used to be better because they had a huge advantage to sourcing products and enjoying economies of scale. It's easier today to source and ship food, so their advantage has dwindled. On top of that, they have too many people on the tit. The have become a corporation that doesnt care about food, they care about money. A good restaurant requikres someone that truly cares about the product they serve. This is why restaurants usually take a downturn when the founder's children take over. Less heart involved and more people involved to split the profit.

Large chains are the worst. They will hire some MBA in the corporate office to figure out how to increase profits. Then the dumbass will say hey, if you stop giving people napkins with their sandwich we will save 3 million dollars nationwide. They do it, they save 3 million dollars, and they say wow good job dumbass. Well, now you have customers that have a slightly less enjoyable experience and they remember that and maybe even go less that they did before, Losing 5 million dollars in revenue annually nationwide. Then they will hire another dumbass to figure out why sales are down. And cost of all these studies and employees is passed onto the customer.