restaurant

also referred to as: restaurants

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Peter Thiel · across every show →

Everything said about restaurant, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Insight
Thiel: Opening a restaurant is a paradigm example of a bad business idea
“Opening a restaurant is my, sort of the paradigm example of an intensely competitive and really bad business idea.”
Peter Thiel Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:49 a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Jeff Jordan: OpenTable bootstrapped its marketplace by selling software to restaurants
“OpenTable was an example of that. Early on, we sold tools because we needed to digitize the restaurant's inventory. Our entry strategy to get the restaurant, because we didn't have a network when the company started, was to give them tools. Once they had the t…”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:22 a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Jordan: OpenTable bootstrapped by selling $200 standalone restaurant software
“They build a suite of tools that they charge 200 dollars for and laboriously rolled out one restaurant at a Time throughout, you know, the country that had enough utility that a restaurant was saying, okay, I'll adopt that in the absence of a network.”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:31 a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
Aug 3, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Alvin Salehi: Most U.S. restaurants fail in their first year
“Most restaurants statistically end up failing in their first year of operation.”
Alvin Salehi Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 22:41 Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
Aug 3, 2023
Assertion Supported
Alvin Salehi: Opening a U.S. restaurant costs $300,000 on average
“It costs now on average 300,000 dollars just to open a restaurant in the United States.”
Alvin Salehi Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 21:59 Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
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