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Millennials Are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 06 2017, @02:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the employees-can't-afford-to-be-customers dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Casual dining is in danger — and millennials are to blame. 

Brands such as TGI Fridays, Ruby Tuesday, and Applebee's have faced sales slumps and dozens of restaurant closures, as casual dining chains have struggled to attract customers and grow sales.

"Casual-dining restaurants face a uniquely challenging market today," Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith recently wrote in a letter to shareholders.

According to Smith, these sit-down restaurants' struggles can blamed on the most-frequently besmirched generation: millennials.

"Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home, ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants," Smith wrote.

Millenials are too focused on food ordering apps and healthy cuisine.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:36AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:36AM (#521148)

    As men are not angels, why would you ever entrust them with a bizarrely blessed-and-ordained monopoly on violence (e.g., the power of a "government")??? Are you insane?

    Indeed, in the world at large, there is no such thing as One World Government; governments actually must compete—despite their violent and unangelic natures, this competition keeps governments' excesses in check.

    Rather than ignore it, capitalism embraces the fact that men are not angels; capitalism not only allows, but implies the necessity of competition and consumer choice in the provision of those very services that governments often commandeer or otherwise arrogate to themselves, because that is the only way to ensure that the shapes of these services evolve in a way that is productive for society at large.

    When devils are forced to compete, the angels are free to go about the mundane business of living productive lives.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:51AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday June 06 2017, @07:51AM (#521218) Journal

    So capitalism is fundamentally based on evil? That certainly explains a lot.

    The invisible hand is not the hand of god. It's the hand of the devil.

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday June 07 2017, @04:19AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 07 2017, @04:19AM (#521755) Journal

      So capitalism is fundamentally based on evil?

      Well, we have this infamous Machiavelli quote:

      Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

      Perhaps you ought to wonder why systems "based on evil" work better than those that aren't?