• ^{Even with small business support from the neighborhood, restaurants are difficult ventures to succeed in.}
• ^{Data suggests that restaurants have more than legacy as it concerns consumers; the upper hand rests with the most accessible, price and location-wise.}

Eating Away At Funds

There's a merit to supporting your local economy with expenditures at restaurants. Contributions to large chains feel less productive, though people like ourselves are in fact, employed there.

Still, much more attention must go to the sole proprietor or small business owner.

Theirs is a much more endangered species.

Chained to Old Models of Thinking

Restaurants appeal to a traditional sense of business; perhaps this forms the backbone of the reasoning behind owning a franchise as a means of business venture. The only critique proves that while chains appear to profit, they contribute largely to the parent corporation, making marginal returns for the individual franchisee.

Could individuals opening up lesser-known takeout spots compete with a firm that made nearly 46 billion dollars in sales, in 2021?

McDonald's popularity might have the opposite effect on other firms. They are not lovin' it.

^{Even with killer kinds of flavors to taste, penetration into the market might be difficult. Vivi's Bubble Tea does differentiate with tasty foods like popcorn chicken in addition to the ever popular boba.}

Cooking Up Ambition

This post comes as a family with which the author is familiar, led by the father, aims to open up a franchise takeout restaurant.

While he seems adamant about the decision, the louder tone of the market implies opening a brick-and-mortar business requires more overhead than the food is worth.

While the average viewer loves a good underdog story like Moneyball, numbers don't lie. The truth is, opening a restaurant today proves markedly harder, a truth that for some, is tough to stomach.