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Here's the real content, found at the end: "New restaurants, with too-easy access to financing from people like me, invest too much in design, tableware, food,

Here's the real content, found at the end: "New restaurants, with too-easy access to financing from people like me, invest too much in design, tableware, food, and service, driving up every customer’s expectations of every restaurant in a cyclone of unprofitability. Landlords, with enough dreamers to fill their spaces, can command nightmare rents."

telotortium 10y ago
And of course, the explicit connection drawn to the raison d'être of this site: "Manhattan restaurants seem to be the original example of the business model taken to its extremes by Uber and others in Silicon Valley, of investor capital subsidizing, semi-permanently, the customer experience."