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1) I've been a customer of restaurants for far longer than I've been a tech entrepreneur. 2) I've been an investor in over 20 food-tech based Startups. I'm not
by davemcclure 14y ago
1) I've been a customer of restaurants for far longer than I've been a tech entrepreneur.
2) I've been an investor in over 20 food-tech based Startups. I'm not clueless about the industry.
3) I come from middle-class (or lower-class!) america -- Appalachia, to be exact -- and my opinions are not based exclusively on either fast food restaurants nor high-class ones, but rather all of the above.
you're welcome to your own opinion, but I'm hardly I'll-informed about the industry, from either customer or operator perspective.
- malachismith 14y agoBeing a customer of restaurants and being an investor in food tech start-ups is not the same as understanding operating a food service business. That logic is similar to the logic of people who say, "I love cooking, I'll open a restaurant." (which, by the way, is one of the major causes of the high rate of infant restaurant mortality).
- bcambel 14y ago"I love programming, I'll open(start) a web company" (which, by the way, is one of the major causes of the high rate of infant webstartup mortality) and I think that is perfectly fine.
- davemc500hats 14y agolook dude, i get your argument, but again i'm not friggin retarded about an industry i've spent a half-decade investing in/around, and in fact made my first restaurant investment over 10 years ago. get off your high horse, i've got a clue and my extended family has been involved in food service businesses since the great depression.
- djt 14y agono point feeding trolls Dave. Good luck with your investment, as I said in a comment below I know one of your competitors very well and it is a very competitive market to try and crack. Good luck to you both.