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Podcast: Startup to Storefront
Episode: David Kuo - Little Fatty
Description: 1 in 3 restaurants won't survive their first year. Profit margins are razor thin, staff turnover is high, and there's a lot of competition. As David Kuo, our guest today and self-titled Head Fatty will explain, discovering product-market fit is a painful process of personal sacrifice. His first restaurant specialized in California-inspired cuisine, and as much as he wanted it to work, it just didn't get the support he wanted. So he doubled down, put it all on the line, and re-opened the restaurant as Little Fatty, a Taiwanese soul food restaurant: new cuisine, new name, and new processes. The restaurant e...