After twenty years on Eat Street, “Bad Waitress” – as perfect a metaphor for life in a city run by Democrats – has abused its last customer.
“When we opened The Bad Waitress, we set out to serve our friends and neighbors better food with a fresh approach. We’ve believed since the start that brunch makes everything better – but this time, it couldn’t save the day,” the Cohens wrote. “We hope you’ll join us for one last lunch date, boozy brunch, mid-morning coffee, or to use your Bad Waitress gift card before we close our doors on Sunday, January 29.”
They actually had two locations. The other one, up in Northeast, closed…
…oh, just you guess when. 2020. You got it.
But remember – don’t you dare say Minneapolis is in a death spiral.
While I wish the folks at Hell’s Kitchen all the best, after some of their wokiness, I can’t help but wonder if the wolves aren’t circling the door.
Restaurant closings are a dog-bites-man story. It’s a brutal business that can quickly go south with something as simple as losing a cook.
Granted, Minneapolis is a dystopian hell-hole where businesses go to die, but I would rather read a story about a notorious diner run by conservatives that succeeds.
I would love to see Hennco & mpls sales tax receipts, month over month, broken down by business type, since January 2020.
The restaurant business is very hard. Low margins, lots of work, lots of low paid labor. Breakfast can be profitable because usually the food ingredients are cheap and the preparation isn’t that complex.
Egg prices aren’t helping, but that’s a recent thing that will pass eventually. The labor market is a bigger problem, at the wages available in the prevailing business model. That too is going to have to change, and is changing albeit slowly.
There’s been an ownership change, which though the name remained, means pretty much a new business. Most restaurants don’t survive a year, so this closure isn’t very remarkable.
Somebody else will give it a whirl in that space. Somebody always does. That’s the restaurant business.
It’s their own fault. They are in the wrong neighborhood. I have it on good authority that restaurants are flocking into downtown.
My favorite BBQ joint is forced to go brick and mortar due to outdated Mpls ordinances.
Popular Minneapolis food truck Animales Barbeque is looking for a permanent home
https://www.startribune.com/animales-bbq-burgers-jon-wipfli-billy-tserenbat-minneapolis-restaurant/600233849/
I want to see month over month or quarter over quarter revenue + restaurants openings and closures.
Replacing a medium to high price restaurant with a low price restaurant is not a good thing.
I can’t find the info I would like to see online, I imagine that some Twin Cities restaurant/hospitality group that does proprietary research on this.
rAT weakly squeaked: “The restaurant business is very hard. Low margins, lots of work, lots of low paid labor.”
Oh, really? Pease tell us about your vast experience running your FAbULOuS BiSTRo, and how you couldn’t make a go of it, despite it being Micheline starred, rAT!
Fucking Dunning Kruger strikes again! LMAO! 🤡🤣
“Replacing a medium to high price restaurant with a low price restaurant is not a good thing.”
Tell that to the Woke Millennial culinary critics giving rave reviews to roach coaches with fancy graphic wraps, and their celebrity “chefs’ in greasy Tee shirts.
They’re being conditioned to eat the bugs themselves, but they don’t know it yet.
“Popular Minneapolis food truck Animales Barbeque is looking for a permanent home”
I must amend my last comment. It’s Woke Millennials and 80IQ nitwits being conditioned. Enjoy your roach souffle’ with rare old one, rAT…it’s goooood.
🤣🍽
‘My favorite BBQ joint is forced to go brick and mortar due to outdated Mpls ordinances.”
Uh, wait….you said your FABuloUs LakEFroNT EStaTE was way up North rAT. And you said you were retired. You wouldn’t even have gone by there on the way to ShREd the BIrKiE, or your sKI ShAK….
WTF?
Hahahahahaha! Just give this nitwit more rope.
Most restaurants don’t survive 2 years, the average tenure is 8. Making it 18 is success. There certainly is a lot more competition on that street than 18 years ago.
Emery
At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?
Emery, take a walk through downtown Minneapolis, and compare it with other cities in terms of its restaurant scene. Sure, the business is tough, but for a long time, downtown Minneapolis has been a desert compared to other places I’ve lived. There’s a reason for that, one based at City Hall.
We visited Bad Waitress a few times over the years and really enjoyed it; kind of sad to see it go. Helll’s Kitchen had been a favorite. I organized a couple of events there and even received an autographed cookbook from Mitch Omer. The menu was creative (loved the walleye BLT), but when they went full woke the staff/operators made it clear they weren’t interested in my money, so we haven’t been back. Oh well.