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High end restaurants also have high end expenses....and without the possibility of restaurants being filled with customers each night, why would they even consider locating in an area where the customer base lives in a retirement community. Exceptional beef costs, local, table farm to table veggies are a bit more expensive than ones from Publix or Winn Dixie, staff, enough for the entire restaurant during all hours open, sous chef, executive chef, managers, bartenders, all cost and if there are insufficient customers to cover these expenses and make a profit for the company, why come to the area.

Wait and see...if and when a Costco and/or Trader Joe's establishes their presence in the area, a higher end restaurant will arrive. As others have mentioned, how often might individuals want to spend hundreds of dollars to eat out one, two, three times a week.