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Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

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Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#11

Typical blog spam slop from one of the worst offending sites. "Tesla Diner celebrity chef Eric Greenspan told Eater that the menu was scaled down due to unprecedented demand" This is because there have been non-stop lines and demand. They are simplifying so they can get food to everyone.

I agree. I dislike Elon as much as the next guy, but this seems like a pretty viable business.

Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#12

What is the business case for Tesla Diners? I can only think of Tesla/EV drivers on road trip looking for a place along their route to kill time while recharging. That can't be that big enough of a market.

Plenty of brands have "flagship stores" that are used as marketing even if the location is not net profitable.

Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#13

Typical blog spam slop from one of the worst offending sites. "Tesla Diner celebrity chef Eric Greenspan told Eater that the menu was scaled down due to unprecedented demand" This is because there have been non-stop lines and demand. They are simplifying so they can get food to everyone.

Agree. Also how the article (well really the people) were complaining about long lines. I mean, is that not usually the case when something opens for the first time?

Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#15

What is the business case for Tesla Diners? I can only think of Tesla/EV drivers on road trip looking for a place along their route to kill time while recharging. That can't be that big enough of a market.

It looks like they may have used the sheet metal from the cybertruck to build it, so perhaps it was a way to make use of a stockpile of steel? And real estate is a good investment. I'm sure there's a tax subsidy in here somewhere too.

Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#16
Tesla Dinner is essentially trying to reinvent a gas pump convenient store with facilities. Somebody maybe asked why gas pump had the facilities around them with an employee who can help you if something does not work, sometimes even in 3am?

Maybe Tesla dinner has been a brainchild of somebody who actually drove BEV and got into charging problems in the middle of a night in a bumfuck nowhere and not enough charge to get to a different point? I have been in that situation, that feeling of helplessness while you are essentially holding your salvation in your hand, yet it does not work, can be really crushing.

Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#17

What is the business case for Tesla Diners? I can only think of Tesla/EV drivers on road trip looking for a place along their route to kill time while recharging. That can't be that big enough of a market.

I think there is demand for "stuff" while recharging.

I would assume a better model might be locating the supercharger near a robust/successful location with plenty of restaurants and coffee shops.

but some superchargers are in pretty desolate areas - that might be a better place for "the company cafeteria"

Re: Tesla Diner Drops Most Menu Options and Cuts Hours Just Weeks After Opening

#18
> You all thought several other automakers would make a better diner than Tesla

Notoriously, VW makes its own sausages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

> Initially, the plant received whole animals from a Volkswagen-owned farm that were butchered on site – this has since ceased and pre-butchered animals are sourced locally

I mean, really they should be getting the pigs from Bosch.

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