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I think the 200k was mostly rent.

• dionidium 5y ago
  You have to pay rent while you navigate the permitting and inspection process. Edit: What I'm saying is that if you spend a year paying rent on an unopened shop while waiting on a permit, then that is properly understood as a cost of the permit.
  • est31 5y ago
    Should it take a year to open an ice cream shop? I get it when you want to build a GW scale nuclear reactor or a vaccine manufacturing plant that it takes a year of permits or longer. But an ice cream shop.
    • dionidium 5y ago
      No, obviously not. That's what I'm saying. If you spend a year paying rent on an unopened shop while waiting on a permit, then that is properly understood as a cost of the permit. What did you think I was saying? (I'll just edit the comment to make that clear.)
    • mywittyname 5y ago
      A year doesn't sound unreasonable. Especially for a person's first time. Even large franchises in midwestern strip malls can take 9+ months to get going. Restaurants are harder than people are aware.
      • s17n 5y ago
        It was a year just for the permitting process. So its an extra year on top of the 9+ months of time that it takes to set up a restaurant since (if the article is to be believed) you can't do it in parallel.