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[–] 67 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When your whole schtick is nostalgia, but all the folks who remember the things you reference are now dead or otherwise unable to come to your restaurants, you either need to change your schtick, or you need to tap into the nostalgia of a younger generation. There aren’t as many Amos & Andy and Howdy Doody fans on the highways these days.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Or just be happy with the niche. Not everything needs to be global.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    But its niche is disappearing, so it either finds a new niche, or it goes out of business. Its niche was always “middle-aged people’s childhood memories,” but how many of today’s middle-aged people grew up listening to radio shows and watching old men sitting around cracker barrels?

    Hell, I AM middle-aged, and one of my grandfathers was a sharecropper who eventually started his own corner store, so I SHOULD be exactly their demographic… but my childhood memories are of Charlie’s Angels, Radio Shack computers and Run DMC. Their niche is almost nonexistent now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    but how many of today’s middle-aged people grew up listening to radio shows

    THE Shadow knows! MUAHAHAHAHA!

    Am middle aged too, grew up on nerdy old shit. Don't forget to stock up on Blue Anthracite coal and Chesterfields!

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