Every Restaurant has a Life Cycle… Restaurants start out with a big splash… like a new baby coming into the world Everyone LOVES – The NEW Thing… It’s Exciting. Then, it goes through the toddler stage and the rebellious teen age period… There is lots of strife between the young and the elders. The Good & Great Restaurants make it through the strife and the turbulence. Eventually become honed to Razor Sharpness They achieve Peak Performance… These are the Glory Days… No matter how good a restaurant is – Eventually, for a thousand different reasons… The sharpness will fade… The restaurant will get passed, over taken by a newer, shinier Restaurant Then it will begin the long slow - decline into oblivion… and irrelevance. And slowly fade – to black.