a fan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:04 pm
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[quote="a fan" post_id=80848 time=<a href="tel:1570211460">1570211460</a> user_id=337]
My industry is getting killed by the tariff wars. The next year is going to be a rough ride. And anything that is bad for alcohol, is doubly worse for restaurants.
We're pretty committed to restaurants now. Our sector is Fast Casual, which is a step up from Fast Food and a step down from the Red Lobster/Applebees sector. No table service. No Tablecloths. Think (our competitors) Chipotle and Blaze
We sell alcohol, but most of it is domestic and craft beers and ciders that are domestically sourced. Our food is fresh or packaged domestically.
IMHO, a bat-turd crazy trade war helps us. Folks with money will move down market much more readily that the Big Mac and Whopper crowd move upwards. These folks show up with a bank balance and a taste for the premium experience. I should be cheering for Trump to crater the economy, but I'm not. A cowed Pence who just barely ducked a bullet would be just fine.......
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Interesting. Every James Beard Winning chef in America I know is trying to come up with their fast casual franchise idea.
One JB winning chef in Denver has one called "Chook Chicken". Chicken on a spit with healthy veggies and prebatched cocktails. Price point under $10 per person. They're killing it, as they say in the biz.
When I said restaurants, I guess I meant higher end. That's our playing field.
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Do you sell to Elways Downton (I guess that’s downtown Denver) at the ritz? Best place I’ve eaten (a couple of times in that town. I mean it’s not Lugers but nothing is. Service and food has been spot on every time though. (Unlike, day, most Del Friscos outside of the NYC one).