MILWAUKEE, WI—Applauding the astute businessperson for seizing upon the market opportunity, sources confirmed Monday that a shrewd entrepreneur had opened a burrito place in the former site of a failed burrito place. “Well, it seems some enterprising go-getter saw that empty storefront where Taqueri...
There was this one site in a town I used to live in that was like a serial restaurant graveyard. In 10 years at least 5 different restaurants opened there and closed, usually in 1-2 years. It was a cool building but the reason seemed fairly clear to me: it was downtown, in a city with poor public transportation, off the main strip, and had no parking other than a pay garage 2 1/2 blocks away and around the corner. People tried an Italian restaurant, a sports themed dinner place, fine dining, a Chinese restaurant, another Italian restaurant, and a bar and grill.
This sounds like a place similar to one I knew. Bar, cabana, another bar, golf bar, another bar, pizza place, all only lasting 1-2 years in the same spot. It was a big spot, with what presumably looks like a nice location being next to a Target on a major intersection. What killed it was there was only one way into the place on the narrowest street of the intersection, which would guarantee an awkward left turn. It's now an Indian grocery store and they seem to have broken the spell