It doesn't surprise me, yet I don't really understand it. It does bother me enough to warrant a blog post....
WHY can you go to any 'chain' establishment and it be busy, yet next door, better quality and better service can be had, yet it is empty?
Case in point (a few of them): Where I live there are 2 'chain' Italian restaurants...both horribly horrendous...yet, there is a line out the door always, and right between these 2 places are 2 independent Italian restaurants with better food and better service. Yet, they are likely going to go out of business....
Yesterday, I admittedly, have become too lazy to go get my haircut at my usual place which is a few towns over, and have been getting it cut at a big chain by work or another big chain by the gym. Last night I walked into said big chain by the gym, and it they informed me that it was over an hour wait...for a haircut.
I walked over to another place across the street, that I saw a big neon sign undercutting the pricing (looking like 'hey, the chain moved in now we get no business') and I was the ONLY person there. The establishment was owned by an Asian husband and wife who barely spoke English. This guy spend so much time and care cutting my hair that it was one of the best hair cuts I've ever gotten, and I didn't have to hear about what club he was going to that night or any other chatty annoying cosmetology licensed girls bitching about something...and he wanted to charge me but 11$ after all was said and done...
I guess I answered my own question. Laziness....
Laziness
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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2 comments:
Make friends with your local barber - I went to high school with the guy who cuts my hair, and the owner of the shop is a councilman in town. Keep it local.
As for why people like chains, it's the dependability. I can go into an Olive Garden anywhere in the country and know I'm going to get substandard, but edible, Italian cuisine. People are unwilling to roll the dice on the unknown.
We'll thats the thing. My 'regular' place, is in Sayreville...very much friends and my family has been going there for years...I don't want a 'new' barber, but it is a pain to drive to Sayreville for a haircut.
Should I become a barber-polygamist and have 2 regular barbers?
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