Re:Save Bistro Elan
by dagw on Friday June 24, 2011 @05:22PM
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On the one hand I get that losing your favorite restaurant kind of sucks, but on the other hand is it really worthwhile to artificially keep alive a company that cannot survive on its own. Also if the place is as good as pg seems to indicate then the people involved will no doubt find a new kitchen to call home and will be serving the food you love in short order. I mean my favorite Japanese place has closed down twice in recent times, but the head chef, and the reason the places where awesome, is still cooking.
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It's doing fine as a business. The landlord is trying to take advantage of them by raising the rent dramatically. Restaurants aren't very mobile.
Restaurants aren't very mobile.
Depends on what defines a restaurant, is it the building or the people. While the building itself isn't mobile, the people who run the restaurant certainly are. If the manager, head chef, sous chef, maitre d', and a few other key people where to close up shop at their current location and set up a new place serving the same food a couple of blocks down the road, wouldn't that count as mobile. Sure it will cost a bit of cash upfront, but if they can negotiate a better deal on the rent, they'll quickly make that back.