Rockets fans try to sabotage Ayesha Curry's new Houston restaurant on Yelp before it even opens

Here's a little industry secret. Restaurants in general are not started by self-made fry cooks who saved up ten dollars off of each paycheck to open a place. Most successful restaurants are started by people with money from somewhere else who are just enamored with the idea of being a restaurateur. I don't have a problem with a millionaire wife risking some of her own capital on a special project to make me a nice place to have dinner. The conventional wisdom of opening a restaurant is you should have enough cash to pay your operating costs for the first year. That over half of restaurants go bankrupt in the first year. And even when they're successful, the profit margins are not astounding. Normal people should not risk their treasure on restauranting. They should buy a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds and average an 8% return until retirement. With their time, they'll be better off getting an MBA and working as an analyst for some soulless corporate giant for a solid paycheck and health insurance. I am more than happy to leave opening restaurants to rich people who do it despite it being a bad risk.

That said, I think you're right that she probably gets a marketing boost in San Fran from being associated with the Warriors. She probably gets a marketing boost in Houston too. If I was her, I'd probably be happy to take the bad with the good.

I think it's in my signature, though I've turned seeing signatures off so I can't see it. The business is urbanCHEF. We do hands-on (not demo) cooking classes where we provide the kitchen, ingredients, tools, and chef instruction and your group cooks a meal and sits down to eat together. We do individual sign-up stuff, parties, kids parties (and right now summer camps), and corporate teambuilder events. It's a good time. If you want to come out, we'd love to have you. Years ago, we'd set up a clutchfans promo code, but I have no idea if it still works or not. I might need to look into that.

 

Yeah I can’t see signatures on mobile.

But this looks very interesting fun and different. I absolutely enjoy cooking and it’s a small passion of mine. I will definitely talk to the lady and try and plan something because this surely intrigues me. I will let you know the results or if/when I decide to book an appointment.

 

Keep it up fellas.

 

Her restaurant in Cali has 3.5 stars, come on

 

The response is amped up because of who she is - the wife of a rival of our beloved team, but I think a "who does she think she is?" response is fairly typical - even expected for ANY outsider trying to bring a smoked meat restaurant into a state that wrote the book on that. Not to mention the fact this has celeb chef written all over it and Houston is mostly a very blue collar town so it's an awkward fit culturally to begin with. People will go to the restaurant because it's Houston and the shear size of the city means there are a lot of rich bros / basic b****es in this town - enough to somewhat sustain a restaurant for a minute but I would be VERY surprised if this could last long term...especially after seeing lots of lukewarm at best reviews from the original Cali location.

Someone remember to bump this thread when the place finally closes so we can hit Yelp for another round of 'Bye Felicia' comments....

 

this is why i hate stuff like yelp for small business owners. any troll can leave a bad review and all it takes is one to effect a business negatively. espeically in a time where nobody does anything without a recommendation anymore.

 

lol, was just going to post this.

Good job guys, you made the big time!

 

May want to keep this in Oakland.

 

This is the same reason why he need to purge fake Rockets fans from Clutchfans!

 

After seeing a couple of YouTube vids about this, I am really ashamed. I had hoped that this news was just local. Sickening.

 

There is thing we call libel or slander and both are punishable by law. If people think that reviewers can make up just any kind of claim in yelp, they have another thing coming.

 

My question is why did she choose Houston as her first restaurant entry in Texas. Most out of state restaurants choose Dallas over Houston as their first entry into Texas dining. I question her true motive here. Wouldn't be surprise if "she changed her mind" about opening her restaurant here.

 

They done goofed. They will be backtraced by cyberpolice and consequences will never be the same.

 

Removing the GSW from the equation.

Houston has a good food reputation. Right up there with NYC and Chicago. If your doing BBQ and want to gauge your worth, Houston is a great place to prove yourself.

Add GSW to it, she should have gone elsewhere.