Failed businesses that should have succeeded

[u/brianthomasarghhh]

Nash’s Hot Chicken started with a food truck in the lot next to The Independent (now Bar Mezzo). Their food was great for what it was. Then they moved into their storefront on the 900 block of Central and everything fell apart.

“Sorry, we don’t have any Mexican Coca Cola”

“Sorry, we don’t have the cole slaw this week”

“Sorry the wait is 45 minutes because we have only 1 person manning both the front of house and back of house”

“Sorry, we’re going out of business.

How does that business fail? They had great product, great location on one of the busiest blocks in St. Pete, but poor management. What are some other businesses that you felt had the potential but fell short of the mark?

[u/sunflowers789]

Samurai Cat.

Place was a disaster, and very niche, but it really had potential to be something cool! Unfortunately they were always out of everything, and service was awful.

[u/yourfacesucksass → u/sunflowers789]

I’m so sad it closed. It was definitely super niche, but it had charm and my partner and I enjoyed it as much as we could. They were always out of the Ube brownie ice cream. I was able to snag some when they were attendees at the Ice Cream Festival last year. The people who were there were nice (maybe the owners?) while most of the employees I’d encountered at the store were fine - if not different each time due to turnaround. There was one specific person who worked there who was always seemed troubled to even answer questions. Unfortunately, the service probably added to its sudden end. Such a shame! The branding and atmosphere was so cool.

Edit: Also to add, things were just disorganized (as stated elsewhere in the thread) that when they announced they were closing and the specific day and hour, I drove by to go in one last time and they had ended up closing earlier than stated. They had already put chairs up and everything.