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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9487406" data-attributes="member: 86653">Exactly.Self-proclaimed pizza aficionados will proudly say how they've never eaten pizza except from the single largest franchise. Most have never even heard of a pizza place that's not the one big franchise and most of those few who have&nbsp; flat refuse to even look at the menu of any other pizza place. To say nothing of actually getting them to go to the new place to say nothing of getting them to actually eat the pie. Yes, generic pizza may be ubiquitous, but anything beyond the one franchise is vanishingly small and hard to get anyone to eat at. That's one part.The other part is the continued pretending that all pizza places are equal, equally easy to go to, and equally easy to get people to eat at. They're not. Stop pretending they are.Take this newcomer, Discworld Pizza. It's a fantastic new thing that's awesome and great and it's raised a lot of seed capital to get started. Huzzah. But there are about 8,750 people in the world interested in that pizza. That might sound like a lot, but it's really, really not when you consider the literal millions chomping at the bit to return to the one big franchise. It's hard enough getting a group together to eat pizza when there are millions of potential people to go with. It is infinitely harder when your total population of potential co-pizza enthusiasts are a rounding error in comparison.Seriously, stop gaslighting people about this stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9487406, member: 86653"] Exactly. Self-proclaimed pizza aficionados will proudly say how they've never eaten pizza except from the single largest franchise. Most have never even heard of a pizza place that's not the one big franchise and most of those few who have flat refuse to even look at the menu of any other pizza place. To say nothing of actually getting them to go to the new place to say nothing of getting them to actually eat the pie. Yes, generic pizza may be ubiquitous, but anything beyond the one franchise is vanishingly small and hard to get anyone to eat at. That's one part. The other part is the continued pretending that all pizza places are equal, equally easy to go to, and equally easy to get people to eat at. They're not. Stop pretending they are. Take this newcomer, Discworld Pizza. It's a fantastic new thing that's awesome and great and it's raised a lot of seed capital to get started. Huzzah. But there are about 8,750 people in the world interested in that pizza. That might sound like a lot, but it's really, really not when you consider the literal millions chomping at the bit to return to the one big franchise. It's hard enough getting a group together to eat pizza when there are millions of potential people to go with. It is infinitely harder when your total population of potential co-pizza enthusiasts are a rounding error in comparison. Seriously, stop gaslighting people about this stuff. [/QUOTE]

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