A lot of the people who fail rapidly in the restaurant business are people who have experience in other businesses. I’ve seen a lot of people try to apply what worked for their construction or retail business to food/bev. They get brought up short, fast.

After 20 years in the restaurant/bar business one of the things that still sticks with me is how many restaurant and bar owners have never worked in the business. This is a huge reason for the failure rate in the first 18 months being 75% instead of a lower number.

Enjoying new things is great, but being respectful of other people’s cultural contexts for those things is crucially important. I am willing to bet none of the influencers the author saw in line for those turmeric lattes knew they were part of a larger Indian culinary tradition. See also: columbusing.

Agreed. Asking friends to comp their work for you - in any industry - is a dick move. If they offer a “friends and family” discount, great, but people are trying to make a living here.

Most of this is just par for the course in starting a business. Worse when you have to deal with the public.

you bring up rule #9: true friends will never ask for a comp — especially if you’re just starting out.

Another issue that Bourdain noted in Kitchen Confidential is that the same friends who say you should open a restaurant are the same ones that keep dropping by and expects a bunch of comps and freebies and never pick up a check.

Things I’ve seen doom a restaurant:

Great, informative piece.

I’m fucking baffled lol. I never thought I’d see the day where White people would literally “Soul Man” a bunch of old ass White novels instead of promote books by Black authors. 2020 is wild.

Nancy Pelosi is living rent free in the head of Donald Trump. He has been tweeting about her all day. She has him so twisted he don’t know which way to turn. He’s going to go for her in public and he’s going to get slapped down and it will be epic.  Trump cannot handle powerful women and Nancy has his number.  

I...y’all couldn’t just move the stacks of Things Fall Apart, Giovanni’s Room, bell hooks, etc., to the Black History table?

Ya’ll can have all this posturing and time wasting. All the Tweets and showboating don’t mean shit. Until these muvafuckas are under the prison I won’t hold my breath on change.

Do you like ketchup on your burger? Then it belongs on your burger.

I will not put ketchup on burgers at home because I season/marinate the meat the way I like it. At the pretty well know burger joint near me, you might get kicked out for doing that as well.

“What the hell, y’all.”

Why, in this year of our Lord 2020, does any campaign staff let their candidate eat a corndog in public? It’s like they want people to look like dumbasses or something.

Hitchcock did try to warn us.

Different species, same asshole behavior. Your Grandpa had the right attitude.

Not sure if these are what we call a Starling up here in Wisconsin? The Starling was one of my late Grandfathers greatest enemy’s as they messed up his bird feeders and chased away the smaller birds. He took to shooting them with a Pellet gun until the the local police stopped by and said “Norman, you can’t be…