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Originally Posted by Bill14564
It isn't the quantity of the customer base, it's the quality.
- For every one complement a restaurant might get there will be five others waiting to disparage it (see recent posts on Chophouse and Thanksgiving dinner)
- Nothing will ever be as good as it was in the place where the customers came from (see any posts on pizza or nearly any other ethnic food)
- The high rent in the bubble combined with the frugality of the residents makes the bubble inhospitable to high-end establishments
A restaurant needs customers in order to survive. If they can't attract customers because of unending criticism of quality, authenticity, or price then they won't survive here.
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This is spot on. Restaurants in general don’t make money so nobody is coming in here to lose money.