If "fast-casual" is actually an industry trend, that makes me very sad. I like the full dining experience; it's pretty much the only reason I'd willingly go o

If "fast-casual" is actually an industry trend, that makes me very sad. I like the full dining experience; it's pretty much the only reason I'd willingly go out to eat. If there's no "experience" to the act of doing so, what's left is in most cases a commodity that can be made, or reasonably emulated, at home or wherever without all the trouble. I think there's some startup parallels in that too. Doing business with a vendor is often valuable when the vendor offers truly substantive core competencies and a breadth of experience spanning a problem domain, not just because the vendor has a competitively priced deliverable to sell you.