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There won't be any restaurants left at this pace!
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They must have closed because of 15now, how sad. Oh wait, 15 hasn't happened yet. I guess restaurants also close for other reasons!
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Everyone in the 15now comments like to talk about how easy it is to run a business.
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So, it opened less than a year ago, and it's already closing because hasn't yet reached a sustainable level of business?
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I thought the headline said something about Cienna Madrid. (Whom Bethany can probably talk smack about now, seeing as she's no longer in the office.)
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State senator Michael Swango.
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They should just relocate to some place more accessible. Terrific food there but it was a pain for most people on Capitol Hill to hike all the way down there just for a bocadillo.
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@3 obviously they went out of business because they were paying their employees an unsustainable wage
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First rule of restaurant retail is have enough capital to operate for 3 years before you make a profit

If you don't, cash flow and ebb and flow will kill you. And watch your unit cost & rent (lease)
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Noooooo! I've been looking forward to eating there for months! It was going to be my first sandwich on my return to the US!
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If good places like this cant raise prices a few dimes to keep them open, what makes people think that paying employees $15 an hour is going to be sustainable? People seem to think that all you need to do is raise prices a tiny bit to pay for the wage increase and here's a popular place thats closing down because they cant raise prices. Even if they managed to stay open, the $15 minimum wage would have easily shut them down.
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@12 "we just haven’t reached a sustainable level of business"
Doesn't sound like it was all that popular.
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Somewhere around 60% of small, owner-operated restaurants fail within the first year, for numerous reasons, but with incompetent management and poor location siting topping the list. Blaming this particular closure on a piece of legislation that hasn't even been enacted yet is simply egregious fear-mongering, not to mention being rife with logical fallacies.

But hey, thanks for playing. We'll send you the home version of the game...
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Journalism! Cry!
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Bummer, the world needs more Bocadillos not less. Still had not made it there. Spanish "fast food" is really one of the best ways to eat.
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I think the economics of running a restaurant in Seattle just aren't favorable for this sort of place. Fixed costs are relatively high, so a restaurant generally has to go high-end, high-volume and/or huge to succeed here. Chico Madrid wasn't any of those things.

Maybe someone could have better luck with the 100 Montaditos model.
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Holy shitsnacks! We need a 100 Montaditos franchise in Seattle ASAP. Somebody please get on that, I am too busy to get started in the restaurant business right now.
http://franchise.100montaditos.com/en-us…

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