Why are restaurants so hard to become profitable?

Question

I’m always hearing about restaurants losing so much money in the first few years. Why?

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Answer 1

Food has to sell itself and that’s by a well known brand, or a type of food that is common in the area ex. people just ordering from any restaurant because it has Chinese food and it looks good. Seen lots of restaurants that just try to do food in general and it doesn’t work out.