why does it seem like bars/restaurants on these shows lack simple common sense?

i'm watching Bar Rescue and it's basically the bar/pub version of kitchen nightmares. i'm wondering how the bars/restaurants get so bad or how the owners are that blind/deluded. sometimes i think even i can run a bar better than them using common sense alone. :O

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MethDozer · M

Think of it this way. The show comes and rehabs the places into one of these over-the-top, over-priced, niche clientel, fad themed restaurants. They spend a shit ton of influencing dollars to get a big opening day rush and give them a loyal clientel that gets excited about being restaurant fads. Business is great for about 5 years while the fad and "theme" is popular but then the next one comes around and the place is dead again

It's just that most od these places were going for that fickle foodie fad crowd and adopted the latest popular fad when it doesn't work that way and you need to be a one of these traveling goon chefs/managers to know what stupid chochkies on the wall or dystopian aestehtic pairs with which silly new vegetables from some unknown corner of the globe or latest bar food that's ben reninveted by adding Nitrate free bacon and buffalo cheese for the next 5-6 years.