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Joelle Weinand
Personal blog · joelleparenteau.medium.combusinessculture
Joelle Weinand's personal blog at joelleparenteau.medium.com covers business and culture. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Restaurants Are So Fucked – Part II”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Medium posts on why restaurants are struggling, including a 2021 follow-up. One commenter links the newer piece as current context, while another disputes the author's account.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Restaurants Are So Fucked – Part II2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
What Hacker News says?
tl;dr Author writes for both sides, made unwise investment decisions, doubled down, surprised it didn't work out, wants to blame customers. https://joelleparenteau.medium.com/why-restaurants-are-not-f... -- In the end, maybe the writer, is just a bad operator and being in an unsustainable business. Being a restaurant operator is not for everyone. Not everyone wants what you want as an operator. In the previous artic…
Comment linking /why-restaurants-are-not-fucked-80383594c593
on “Why Restaurants Are So Fucked – Part II”Submitted Why Restaurants Are So Fucked – Part II as a story · 94 points
HN discussionShe wrote a new article this year (2021) that goes over why restaurants are still in such a mess. https://joelleparenteau.medium.com/why-restaurants-are-so-fu...
Comment linking /why-restaurants-are-so-fucked-part-ii-d4549485fb6e
on “Why Restaurants Are So Fucked”Submitted Why Restaurants Are So Fucked as a story · 45 points
HN discussion