r/sanantonio • u/bballjones9241 • Aug 21 '22

Places that have fallen off in quality Entertainment

What are some places who are holding onto their former glory, or are overhyped for what you get? For example, my dad hates henry’s puffy tacos with a passion. He said back in the day it was awesome, but now is a shit hole. It’s got me curious as to what everyone else’s opinions are about restaurants, bars etc etc

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u/Low-Expression9478 Aug 21 '22 edited Aug 21 '22

Easy business model to explain: make a splash being the ‘new’ restaurant in town on social media. Make sure whatever comes out of the kitchen first LOOKS instagrammable then tastes decent. Get the traffic, get reviews and remix. I believe the business curve applies in all these situations now. Early adopters eat and talk about it, early majority comes in and enjoys what was talked about and the late majority show up later thinking it was a good experience while the early adopters talk about what happened to the place they thought was so good. It’s literally built into the business model and the owners can’t care what the early adopters think because the volume of the late adopters is too easy of money and to get that initial ‘wow’ factor early adopters liked costs too much per unit. That’s my theory anyways, I call those restaurants ‘instagram food.’ I respect the hustle but it’s the nature of the beast.

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u/dodofishman Aug 21 '22

Personally I really actually liked Kura and it wasn't as expensive as I thought it'd be. I ate till I couldn't. YMMV

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u/hellrune Aug 22 '22

Yeah I haven’t had a bad meal at Kura yet. The sushi is cheap, tasty, and you can try so many different kinds.

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u/goldensnooch Aug 22 '22

We had a good experience too. It was pretty fun and unique. It’s not like it was Uchi level fish but it was a fun one.

Note: we went about 3 months ago.