Hmmm, I am as happy as I am worried. I have participated in so many stories of Nigerian restaurants opening in America, most especially in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri, to the extent that the idea just worries me. While in Wisconsin, for example, my sympathy drive was to bring my students twice every semester to patronize the Nigerian restaurants in Madison and Milwaukee, both of which no longer exist. The problem is that in almost all instances, they hardly lasted five years, many of which were spent in financial struggles and code litigations. And so, when a Nigerian came for advice because he and the wife wanted to start a Nigerian restaurant, I asked for how much they had. When they told me, I advised them to please shelf the idea and the sentiment; instead to humor me by going to purchase either a McDonald's or a Pizza Hut franchise, which would have cost them almost the same amount of starting a Nigerian restaurant. They reluctantly went for Pizza Hut. Today, more than ten years after, they are doing well, very well. While I pray for our S/F sister, Sinmileoluwa, I hope she comes up with a mechanism for success, not just for survival or "breaking even," because the competition may be stiff in a society where a $7/plate with half-an-hour wait might be challenging when folks could just drive-through in two minutes and get a meal for $2.99. Good luck, Sinmi!
Michael O. Afoláyan
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On Sunday, April 14, 2019, 12:08:26 PM GMT+1, Segun Ogungbemi <seguno2013@gmail.com> wrote:
Ride on. I am proud of your initiative and drive.
Segun Ogungbemi.
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Waoh! This is a great news to the ears.....
I am happy and impressed that some had chosen a most rewarding entrepreneurial endeavour in such a far distance from 'Eko' herself....
I see the venture in the eye of someone creating in 'oasis in a desert'.....
The outfit being the first Nigerian restaurant in San Francisco as we've been told is actually going to bridge a big gap by making Nigerian cuisine available to residents and visitors to that environment.....
Bravo and big thumbs to Adebajo and her team......they should expect us soon.....
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/News-of-S-F-s-first-Nigerian-restaurant-goes-13751426.php
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