Oh Walt. What were you THINKING?
Monday, June 8th, 2009I watch “Breaking Bad”. It is stunningly brilliant. Emmys to all involved on this show. To nutshell the plot: Walter White, a middle-aged high school chemistry teacher is diagnosed with lung cancer. To fund its treatment cost and provide for his family since he thinks his illness is terminal, he decides to cook and sell, with the help of a former student-turned-junkie, a chemically pure form of meth. It’s a heartbreaking, surprising, truthful, wincing, dark, at times funny, and unflinching moral play on choice and its ramifications. Season two’s finale catapults this concept, dramatically and unexpectedly, to the law of unintended consequences.
“Well that’s nice,” you’re saying to yourself, “I’m glad you like shows about people who make disgusting decisions, Mr. Restaurant Accounting Guy, but how does this help me increase my bottom line?” While I’m pretty sure that a TV program with fictional characters won’t do that, I’ve thought about it from a number of angles, a stand out one being location (x3). You know the adage.
I’ve had a couple of clients who, in my blog-advice-is-free opinion, made the fatal mistake of choosing the wrong locale for their new restaurant concepts. Arguably, there were other factors that contributed to their downfalls (both of which were spectacular - and sad). But where the real estate footprint was went far in causing their doors to eventually close.
I’ll flesh out the details in my next blog. Meanwhile, I’ve got an awesome recommendation for your business based on this show about a cuddly purple dinosaur named Barney who sings about love.
