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Originally Posted by combusean
How did Verde close? Their carrying costs looked unbelievably low. (probably had something to do with the building, i'm guessing).
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The owners cited busy weekday lunches, but not enough traffic on nights and weekends. Of course, that could be said of a lot of Downtown restaurants.
In retrospect, I think the following would have helped:
-- Better music and speakers
-- A liquor license, at least a limited one for wine and beer
-- Better signs
-- More vegetarian choices on the menu
-- More illumination of the window that looked in on the room where tortillas were being made. Seeing the tortilla making would have been great advertisement, but you really had to look to see what was going on in there.
-- More social media activity
-- Better ulitization of the nearby Phoenix Public Market, maybe, as suggested by Michele Laudig of the New Times, by selling tortillas there
Or, you could go with my three-year-old daughter's theory. She really liked the place. In fact, it was the first restaurant she knew by name. When I told her it was closed, she pouted and then told me, "Batman closed the restaurant."