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With the Illinois St. Emporium across the street and a Starbucks next door, I’m not sure how this neighborhood supports yet another coffee shop. A lesson the Chalet learned the hard way. They are going to need a full liquor license to differentiate themselves (and better food than the Chalet had…)
Yeah maybe some type of “higher” end restaurant would fit this area. There’s a lot of money there and very few restaurants.
The Emporium is a casual sit-down restaurant and carry out with a full menu, bakery, and catering business. Yes, it serves coffee, but it is not a coffee shop like Starbucks or the “old school” places like the old Abbey, etc.
The Chalet inside space is fairly small for a restaurant, unless they went very high end with a tasting menu and limited nightly seatings. It would require a major and expensive renovation to make the space far more luxe than it currently it is. Maybe, if the space were downtown, Carmel, or in a bigger foodie city, then it might work. The neighborhood is affluent, but it tends to be very family-oriented, and I am not sure there is demand there for a very high-end restaurant.
Doesn’t Emporium close at 5pm? And while I love Emporium, its clientele is very much on the older side. If Tinker can capitalize on college kids and others under 40s in the area, they can get their niche and co-exist.
Yeah, this seems confusing. Starbucks is undeservedly popular. Chalet was . . . fine.
Chalet had a very limited menu, kept irregular hours, gave mediocre service, and was not particularly that nice (for the neighborhood) on the inside.
The Emporium serves coffee, but it is not a coffeehouse (in the sense of a Starbucks, etc.) , nor has it ever been. It is a full-menu restaurant and bakery with a catering business.
Congrats to the Tinker team!
They could easily differentiate by focusing on the bar aspect (coffee mixed drinks anyone?!). There isn’t much competition for that in the immediate vicinity (Byrne’s 4-5 bar seats don’t exactly count).