[viame]

In 2007 my mom and I opened up a deli/cafe. We had previous experience in this industry so we didn't think we would struggle. We went bankrupt two years after that. It was an awesome experience.

It is true the rent can kill a business but it also comes down to its location, parking, getting in a out of the parking (which pisses people off if its a busy street and they have to wait because of traffic), everything needs to be running smoothly.

Starting such business is also super expensive. The good thing is that we only had to purchase the equipment. I have a construction company so the reno and everything that needed to be done was done by us. I also have a web design and marketing company so all the advertising was done in-house. These probably helped us save 50k if not more.

I remember, we had snitches coming in an out who were hired by our competitors. They would also come in and look at the expiry date of every produce in hope to find something that has expired so they can make it public.

In the end, we were about 100k out.

Anyhow, it was an awesome businesses and people loved it, however, it just wasn't enough to keep it running.

[sumedh]

> we had snitches coming in an out

How did you figure out that they were snitches?