strangegrey wrote:Let's ask this question of the original poster.
Lets assume you were a co-owner in a restaurant. The restaurant was setup as a partnership and you were one of 3 owners. The other two owners, due to disagreements on how the restaurant should be run, pushed you out.
You agreed to disolve the partnership, and you gave public notice of your departure....the remaining two owners, reformed the partnership and started restructuring the business in a very distasteful way. The moved, what was a fantastically successful italian restaurant with a high income bracket clientele, to a seedy part of town. They started selling pizza out of a cutout window on the street. The back alley was a frequent stop for drug addicts and homeless bums looking for handouts and thrown away, half eaten bread. Approximately 3% of the original high income bracket restaurant customers still patronize the place...but do so out of nostalgia for the old place (which was beyond compare). The 3% of those that still patronize the place, even though they drive past crack houses and dive bars to get to the new restaurant, refuse to accept reality....thinking someday, the restaurant will come back, stronger than ever....and the place will restore all the old feelings....nevermind the crack viles and needles they have to step over to get into the front door. Never mind that the water they serve at the tables is now light brown, instead of clear. Nevermind the fact that the portions are 1/2 what they used to be and that the food doesn't taste the same. They figure...same name...a few of the same owners....it'll be back...and I'll have my memories of this fantastic place back too!
The problem is, 97% of the original clientele has moved on....found a better restaurant in a nice part of town, without crack addicts and bums. They're actually eating fillet mignon and fried calamari at their new favorite restaurant, instead of eating fried clams bought from white castle and placed on a plate and served in the shithole, like the stuck-in-the-past 3% that are desperate for a return to the glory days of the restaurant.
It's safe to say the 2 remaining owners drove the restaurant into the fucking ground, with bad management and shitty atmosphere. If they 2 partners finally get it through their heads and offer the original first partner an amazing deal to return, so that the restaurant can improve...tell, me, what amount of incentive or money would intice the original owner??? given the fact that the restaurant is a shithole, will never amount to anything more than a slightly better shithole....and the potential for profits are only as good as any restaurant's profits in a crack infested, bum-laden part of town!?
When instead, the former owner can invest his money in a nice part of town, startup a slamming, hip restaurant....and make alot more money?
Sorry, to me, I see a failing franchise.....Perry coming back, aint going to improve shit....what incentive does perry have to return to a franchise that schlong and fucka have been pissing on for 12 years?
