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> Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale. Ah, yes, restaurants, that flash-in-the-pan, economically unproven innovation. Dear God, why does e

> Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale. Ah, yes, restaurants, that flash-in-the-pan, economically unproven innovation. Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale".

Turing_Machine 3y ago
Restaurants have pretty much the highest attrition rate of any type of small business. Ones that aren't "flash-in-the-pan" are generally outliers, sometimes extreme outliers in areas that have a lot of competition.
gruez 3y ago
>Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale". Scaling makes it possible for more people to enjoy higher quality goods/experiences. You're making this post on a device that exists thanks to "scale". You likely live in a city that exist because of "scale". You enjoy modern amenities like electricity and running water thanks to "scale".
- demondemidi 3y ago
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  - gruez 3y ago
    >Restaurants of any decent quality require talent, proper ingredients, and time. You're missing the most critical one: money. You need money to get a restaurant off the ground, and money makes acquiring talent, ingredients, and time easier. Ghost kitchens help on money aspect by not requiring you to lease/renovate prime real estate for the restaurant and not having to worry about hiring/managing FoH staff.
  - hot_gril 3y ago
    Could you not name-call?
    - sgift 3y ago
      Without name calling the whole argument breaks down, because it's just "I disagree with you, and because you are <name call> you are wrong!". No substance behind it. (Ghost kitchen can have all the things they've stated as needed for restaurants and still scale. Cause ghost kitchen just means ... kitchen which only delivers. There's zero supporting evidence that they cannot have all the things, but the name calling hides that nicely in the heat of the argument)
      - demondemidi 3y ago
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        dang 3y ago
        You broke the site guidelines repeatedly, and quite badly, in this thread. Can you please not do that? Regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
    - demondemidi 3y ago
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Turing_Machine 3y ago

Restaurants have pretty much the highest attrition rate of any type of small business. Ones that aren't "flash-in-the-pan" are generally outliers, sometimes extreme outliers in areas that have a lot of competition.

gruez 3y ago

>Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale". Scaling makes it possible for more people to enjoy higher quality goods/experiences. You're making this post on a device that exists thanks to "scale". You likely live in a city that exist because of "scale". You enjoy modern amenities like electricity and running water thanks to "scale".

demondemidi 3y ago
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- gruez 3y ago
  >Restaurants of any decent quality require talent, proper ingredients, and time. You're missing the most critical one: money. You need money to get a restaurant off the ground, and money makes acquiring talent, ingredients, and time easier. Ghost kitchens help on money aspect by not requiring you to lease/renovate prime real estate for the restaurant and not having to worry about hiring/managing FoH staff.
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Could you not name-call?
  - sgift 3y ago
    Without name calling the whole argument breaks down, because it's just "I disagree with you, and because you are <name call> you are wrong!". No substance behind it. (Ghost kitchen can have all the things they've stated as needed for restaurants and still scale. Cause ghost kitchen just means ... kitchen which only delivers. There's zero supporting evidence that they cannot have all the things, but the name calling hides that nicely in the heat of the argument)
    - demondemidi 3y ago
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      - dang 3y ago
        You broke the site guidelines repeatedly, and quite badly, in this thread. Can you please not do that? Regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
  - demondemidi 3y ago
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