Quote Originally Posted by johnibrahim View Post
Seriously most new shop owners are dumb fucker these days.....

Remember in the old days when massage shop are more concentrate in certain area. The busiest and biggest shop owner arrogantly but rightfully said: "John, I love more shops open around me cos there will be more people come to the area to punt and I am always their first stop. There is no need for infighting between shops cos the number of punter we get in this area now can feed enough jobs to the quietest shop in the area." This is actually confirmed by the small and quiet shop owner. Everybody wins every body happy. Those days are gone.....

One popular ML I know making very good money in a few well know shops. She decided to buy a massage shop. It happened that a few ML working in the shop are my friends and they all said the shop was shit but now even worse. The market is worse and the new ML owner does not know how to run a shop. To add oil to the flame she is very good herself that staff lost jobs to her since all regular follow her to the new shop decided to stick with her rather than other girls in the shop. I ask her why you go through all this shit and end up making less money. She excuse is seeing her bosses making all the money from her job and just sit there while she work her ass off, she decided to buy this shop and reverse the role. How dumb.......
You have to however give her credit for having the gusto and entrepreneurial chutzpah to give it a go. Which shop?

The aggregation analogy is proven. A small start up coffee shop/ nascent indie chain (Seattle) noted that coffee sales and patronage exponentially increased once a Starbucks moved very close to them. They smashed Starbucks on the individuality , service and consistency of coffee and capacity to shift offers based on trend customer demand interaction etc... they then went to establish a successful small chain of shops targeting Starbucks 😅



QVB for some time had 1a 1b across from each other . Don’t know if it was good or bad, though they are now sgl entity. As an aside I’d suffest they’re decor in need of a little upgrade

Anyways back to Viet R n T

One fave who I was building good raport now left/retired and with a recent revision of service offer at 84a hampden, with another who was becoming one of my regulars , I’m on the lookout for a new good shop and preferably private .