Decades ago I considered opening a restaurant with my sister.

We built a business plan. We studied menu design, food waste calculations, dollars per seat per hour, advertising costs, time to profit, and a million other things.

Our business analyst said that 2/3 of new restaurants went under in their first year, m8ostly because NOBODY THINKS ABOUT THOSE THINGS!

So every time I hear about how a billion restaurants will be going under, I remember that they are almost all started by people with three great recipes and no clue.

Restauranteurs need to spend a week in italy to learn how make an actually good dining experience

• Good local produce
• everything hand made by default
• excellent service
• sensible pricing, tax and service included. No guessing games when the bill comes

Basically, common sense if you're running a resto.... if i'm going to be dropping $200 to go out these days, it better be really good. As it stands today, dining out in canada is a ripoff and mostly mediocre experience

Nobody should be supporting chain restaurants.

Make stuff cost less. Buy local only. Don’t expect a huge profit.

When I see coupon books in the mail from McDonalds etc.. I just laugh at the "deals" and then chuck them into the wood stove.

Do we really need restaurants?