How often would a resident use a high end restaurant? Maybe a couple times a year. For most including myself rarely or never. That wouldn't support a restaurant. It would need tourists that would spend on vacation way above what they normally would to add to their vacation experience. This isn't a tourist area.
South Florida in the 50's had many high end restaurants that would close all summer long and only open in the winter tourist season. This was true of the top hotels also. They made their money in the winter when the well-to-do spent their winter on Miami Beach. The horse and dog racing tracks brought a huge number of gamblers.
Years later they promoted summer and cut prices drastically to stay open year around.
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Les
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