Post #781372 by Or Got Rum? on Wed, Nov 8, 2017 9:28 AM

Great points Skip, taken w/ validity as you are someone who has operated a food-service business.

Today IMHO, some of the "new" places offer plenty of "hip service"...um, I mean "lip service", where talk of original and true to spec classic Tiki and cocktails w/ very high "craft" prices are offered and when they are experienced or reviewed, they miss the mark....often. Again, beating that damn dead horse, talk of "service" is always blabbed about but quickly forgotten. Just as Skip was saying (and a convo w/ my Wife this morning about no one wanting to take over a very successful restaurant) people don't have (or don't want to have) the nut-busting work ethic these places require. It takes more than $ (although PLENTY is needed) it takes a desire to carve out a niche position in your market and keep pushing until you feel you maybe can see the forest through the trees, THEN, keep pushing harder.