I'm guessing small was meant in the "not a large chain" sense. Subways aren't exactly sizable.
You got it right on. Small wasn't by size, more like a small company or group, not a chain. Size wise, that is big, concept wise it is not.
I'm guessing small was meant in the "not a large chain" sense. Subways aren't exactly sizable.
Thank you for your first hand insight! Your Mom and Pop's build in the neighborhoods where they live. Where the rents are reasonable. Not major commercial districts, in new developments. The high rent's and lack of return on investment is why the restaurant space at the corner of Aldrich and Lake in the Blue development has not had a bite yet. Eat street is an example of where you could have once started a Mom and Pop and done well. That too is now pricing itself out of that range in my opinion,.Those types of restaurants don't provide a good standard of living to the people who own them. Nobody wants to blow $200k on a build out just so you can make $20k a year working seven days a week. That is how you make tiny places work unless you are charging La Belle Vie prices or have the economies of scale that comes from being a chain.
For the amount of hassle involved in running a restaurant and the amount of money it takes to open one, it is not worth doing if you have less than 80 seats. Anything less than that and you are better off working for somebody else (in terms of work and investment vs financial return).
Yes, as the rendering shows:I think that they will make more sense when covered in finishing materials, so that they make that right angle shape that segments the portions of the building.
Boy, is that the truth!If there is one thing this forum has taught me is that there are no absolutes when it comes to taste in architecture.
I don't know, once in awhile we need a building to be a little over the top in this town to shake things up. Uptown or Hennepin Ave is the perfect place for this type of structure, but I doubt I would like it anywhere else.i find this project a little gimmicky and overdone, trying too hard. but this is uptown and perhaps a little of this is fine.
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