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In reply to the discussion: There's A Masive Restaurant Industry Bubble, and It's About To Burst [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)hate cooking and I'm also a diabetic, but in the past few years I've noticed all the new restaurants that pop up and that some of them go away pretty quickly. I've wondered how this has gone on this long. Everyone knows restaurants can be tanked financially by, say, one crooked bartender, but they keep opening up.
Oh, BTW, the reason they can't find enough decent chefs/line cooks is because the pay sucks. Few people except die-hard lovers of food and cooking are going into the business except in the hopes of opening their own restaurant, and there are never enough of them to staff all the restaurants. And once they figure out that they aren't going to be able to make a living or even afford to open a restaurant, they just cook at home and for friends and get a decent-paying job doing something else. I have 2 friends who are amazing chefs but work at careers in wildly different areas. They saw the writing on the wall a long time ago.