Restaurant Roulette: 'Too Many Seats, Too Few Butts'
Restaurant Roulette: 'Too Many Seats, Too Few Butts'
'For a restaurant open as recently as this one is, it should have been busier than it was'...
That was what restaurant consultant/analyst John Gordon of Pacific Management Consulting told me as we were walking away from a Sweetgreen (SG) restaurant just east of Del Mar in San Diego.
We've been getting together for lunch at least once a year, usually at this same burgeoning neighborhood strip center in San Diego, to chat restaurants – which John eats, breathes, and sleeps. He knows everybody... and if there are bodies buried, he knows where to find them.
We chose this Sweetgreen because it opened just a few weeks ago and we both wanted to check it out...
What's more, John said this specific center – which I take for granted since i’m there almost every day – would rank as one of the top 100 non-superpower suburban malls in the country… in large part because it’s surrounded by very high surrounding average per capita household income.
That makes it a perfect loca…