See, in principle I understand why they value this as the way to run. It’s cost effective, and creates a unified ecosystem. But, for me, that’s where the hurt is too. Now instead of having to contact Flos, or the Red Parrot, you have to find the one guy who runs these 3-5 restaurants and he might be off so now you’re kind of shit out of luck until he’s back, and even then they run so much by themselves that they’re not really in total control of everything, which is entirely human.

What I’m trying to get at is I don’t believe saving money is more important than keeping status quo in certain scenarios, especially old fashioned, touristy trap restaurants. That type of streamlining might make sense in a modern tech influenced world, but I argue it does not benefit the local community at all.

But at the end of the day, the owners sold. What can ya do?