Ayesha Curry's restaurant, “International Smoke”, wanted no smoke w/ Houston trolls & got ran out

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I'm sure some non basketball fans ate there no problem but still for them to close that fast meant that they weren't putting butts in seats overall to offset the high rent, food costs, and payroll. Which means that the Rockets/Warriors thing did play a big role in this. There's an old restaurant saying, 'If one person has a bad experience at a restaurant, they in turn will tell five people about it and each of those five people will each tell an additional five people about it'.. thus it speads like a wildfire. Maybe not a bad experience happened at Curry's restaurant but the "You know that Steph Curry's wife's spot, you're not going to eat there are you:usure:" had to play a huge role in this. You have to have butts in seats ordering shyt to have a successful restaurant period. They couldn't overcome the basketball connection. That's too fast of a closure

I think it’s being massively overblown because it makes a better story to say that upset Rockets fans shut her shyt down.

Houston is a city full of transplants, plenty of people who don’t care at all about the Rockets to give her business.

There’s no proof that this happened.
 
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Why her or her people didn't pay the rent?
Most restaurants are prepared upon opening for taking a loss around 6 months before they need to see profits worth keeping the place open. Like I mentioned earlier the cuisine she chose means you have to be lights out in this city to survive. If she chose some foo foo French shyt it would’ve lasted a lot longer as there’s no one in the fine dining space doing that here.
 

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This was a popular restaurant ,but not like TLH or PP popular
She put it in a white suburb ,but alot of professional sistas liked it.The Rockets trolling was excessive before it opened ,but it got business. Most likely she or her business party weren't feeling the profit margin.
 

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People believe being a great cook = Successful restaurants

It doesn't work that way. Restaurants are one of the trickiest businesses to run....and quality of food has very little to do with it's failure.
She not a great cook she was just marketed.She had nothing to do with the test kitchen for this restaurant, and her business partner has successful restaurant in Houston.
 

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I’ve always thought to myself she’s expanding the restaurant too quick but it’s probably out of her control. I’ve ate at the SF spot and even ate at her pop up she had before that. The food is pretty average. Some dishes are better than others, but nothing really stands out.
 
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