Is True Food Kitchen on the way out in Bethesda? The restaurant's space at 7100 Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Bethesda is now being marketed for lease, with immediate availability. True Food Kitchen opened there, in the ground floor of the Solaire Bethesda apartment tower, in June of 2017. Assuming a 10-year lease, this is a year short of the termination date. The proposed monthly rent for the 6500-square-foot space is available upon request, according to the online listing. True Food Kitchen remains open for business at this time.
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My family and I used to go there a LOT! Then we got tired of the oddball, anti-social, servers who made us so uncomfortable. Haven’t been there in over a year and not the least bit surprised that many other people also got tired of that weirdo nonsense.
Captain Obvious weighing in here to guess that they aren't profitable, otherwise they would have renewed the lease.
This is purely hypothetical. Base rent plus taxes and additional charges is probably $30k - $40k per month if not more. If rent is $400k annually then this should be 10% of the gross to make a profit according to a highly questionable "guestimate formula" used by some folks to estimate the profitability of a business. Based on these very rough estimates this means that their annual gross should be $4mil. If they are open 363 days per year they need to do ~$11k daily. If the average sale per person is $30 then they need to serve ~367 people daily. I was there for lunch recently, my first and only time, and it was pretty slow. Just my 2 cents.
wow this is sooooo accurate. I had the same experience every damn time. And the food continually got worse!
not surprised.
Depressing but not surprising. Raised their prices and eroded their service and food quality. Terrible combination. RIP to a once great brand.
Maybe you should leave the red baseball caps at home, unless they sport a curly "W".
I wish I could say this is sad news but it's not. The servers and workers there had such foul attitudes. It's as if they didn't want you there. I'm glad to see this place going. The food sucked too!
Good. They sucked.
Is this place ever actually crowded? Every time I've been in there or walked past it, it feels deserted.
If Woodmont Grill couldn't make it profitable being in Bethesda (and they owned the building), how is any restaurant going to be able to survive without significant landlord subsidies?
Love me some Schadenfreude!
What restaurant could come into this space? It's pretty large so it would either have to be subdivided or a massive chain brand would have to assume all of the space.
7:48: A sad, yet classic, example of ‘go woke, go broke’. Am I right, buddy?
Woodmont Grill was profitable. They didn’t want to keep serving people who wanted their lemon drops, French fries to go, to be seated with a party of 5 or with instantly no reservation (even when the place was half empty at 2pm), wanted to wear causal clothing and have loud conversations, etc.
Fogo de Chao - but they wouldn't, they know the business atmosphere in MoCo is toxic, they are not fools.
Fogo would never work. It was in Pike and Rose and that didn't last. P/K is a ghost down and crime ridden now. It's sad.
5:12 - Pennies are obsolete and so is this analysis.
They're in Pike & Rose
Oh wow! Thought they had closed. Thanks for correcting me!
It's good to find hard help.
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