The Worst Business ideas you’ve ever seen. - Surely you’ve seen a few.

[Matthew216]

We’ve all ran across them online Or in person here or there. Was it a bad idea, run by a total lol-cow, drew horrible customers, or something that made you go “what?”

Feel free to post about it here. I for one found this site to be very.....interesting for a business opportunity.

https://www.anonymouspotato.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIksX6jbvz4QIVycbACh17NAY3EAEYASAAEgJHwfD_BwE

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

"You can play sounds out of a microphone, you can record sounds with a speaker, so a screen that displays pictures should be able to take pictures if someone is smart enough to write a program for it. If you do it I'll cut you in on the profit."

 

[Freddy Freaker]

 

[Foxxo]

From UKIP:

From SuperPACs:

 

[MediocreMilt]

 

[VIVIIXI]

Communist Vegan Cafe.

Might have worked if the communism was relegated to hipster kitsch and the management a bit more bourgeoisie.

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http://fortune.com/2016/12/12/michigan-marxist-vegan-restaurant-closes/

A Grand Rapids bastion of Marxist politics and vegan burgers is shutting down after five years in business. And some are likening its closure to the fall of communism.

The Garden Diner and Café—replete with wall murals of Che Guevara in a chef’s apron and raised fists clutching asparagus sprigs—had eschewed tips in favor of paying its workers a living wage and scorned traditional management methods.

And while its vegan, vegetarian and raw food fare was mostly a hit, Vice‘s Munchies reports, its unpredictable opening hours, slow service and 40-minute waits for a sandwich, strained customer patience.

Thad Cummings, one of the restaurant’s original investors, told local Michigan site MLive that the Garden Diner and Café, which was called Bartertown Diner until September, had struggled to pay its workers or turn a profit.


The restaurant’s (now-defunct) Facebook page was flooded with complaints from patrons angry at its slow service. Patrons hungry for a sandwich would find the café shuttered at odd times, thanks to opening hours set by employee group decision.

Some commenters gleefully attributed the restaurant’s failure to flaws in socialism. One commentator, who tagged his post “collectivist nincompoopery,” wrote on MLive “why is it that progressives refuse to acknowledge that socialism doesn’t work and never has? It can’t work because it runs afoul of natural law and human nature.”


But for others in Grand Rapids, the restaurant wasn’t progressive enough. After sending a free meal to the local police department, some complained that it had sold out by cozying up to the city’s “nearly all-white police force in this era of police violence.”

So, what does the closure of the Garden Diner and Café reveal about the merits of one political system over another? Probably not a lot.

 

[CrunkLord420]

I bought a Jones Good Ass BBQ and Foot Massage t-shirt so it's not exactly a bad idea.

 

[MalWart]

There was a breakfast place that only sold cereal. Needless to say, that place lasted less than a year:

It's crunch time

Puffs, flakes or shredded. Crispy to soggy within minutes.

www.sun-sentinel.com

 

[Foxxo]

I thought the case was spring-loaded and would fire balls into the players' faces.

 

[Recoil]

http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/

http://crafthaus.ning.com/video/how-to-sharpen-pencils

The guy's being dead serious & I've read writeups on him in the New Yorker & Gothamist.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Communist Vegan Cafe.

Might have worked if the communism was relegated to hipster kitsch and the management a bit more bourgeoisie.

*

http://fortune.com/2016/12/12/michigan-marxist-vegan-restaurant-closes/

A Grand Rapids bastion of Marxist politics and vegan burgers is shutting down after five years in business. And some are likening its closure to the fall of communism.

The Garden Diner and Café—replete with wall murals of Che Guevara in a chef’s apron and raised fists clutching asparagus sprigs—had eschewed tips in favor of paying its workers a living wage and scorned traditional management methods.

And while its vegan, vegetarian and raw food fare was mostly a hit, Vice‘s Munchies reports, its unpredictable opening hours, slow service and 40-minute waits for a sandwich, strained customer patience.

Thad Cummings, one of the restaurant’s original investors, told local Michigan site MLive that the Garden Diner and Café, which was called Bartertown Diner until September, had struggled to pay its workers or turn a profit.


The restaurant’s (now-defunct) Facebook page was flooded with complaints from patrons angry at its slow service. Patrons hungry for a sandwich would find the café shuttered at odd times, thanks to opening hours set by employee group decision.

Some commenters gleefully attributed the restaurant’s failure to flaws in socialism. One commentator, who tagged his post “collectivist nincompoopery,” wrote on MLive “why is it that progressives refuse to acknowledge that socialism doesn’t work and never has? It can’t work because it runs afoul of natural law and human nature.”


But for others in Grand Rapids, the restaurant wasn’t progressive enough. After sending a free meal to the local police department, some complained that it had sold out by cozying up to the city’s “nearly all-white police force in this era of police violence.”

So, what does the closure of the Garden Diner and Café reveal about the merits of one political system over another? Probably not a lot.

libturds btfo epic style

 

[VIVIIXI]

Oof... this was painful to watch.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

OK, so, we're having a lot of trouble keeping these particular cake mixes in stock. We can't make enough to keep up with demand. So logically, the best solution to this problem is to... stop making that cake mix!

Problem solved!

Yeah, this really happened. This is what happens when management gets a bit too detached from the... you know... reason for running a business.

 

[Oglooger]

Communist Vegan Cafe.

Might have worked if the communism was relegated to hipster kitsch and the management a bit more bourgeoisie.

*

http://fortune.com/2016/12/12/michigan-marxist-vegan-restaurant-closes/

A Grand Rapids bastion of Marxist politics and vegan burgers is shutting down after five years in business. And some are likening its closure to the fall of communism.

The Garden Diner and Café—replete with wall murals of Che Guevara in a chef’s apron and raised fists clutching asparagus sprigs—had eschewed tips in favor of paying its workers a living wage and scorned traditional management methods.

And while its vegan, vegetarian and raw food fare was mostly a hit, Vice‘s Munchies reports, its unpredictable opening hours, slow service and 40-minute waits for a sandwich, strained customer patience.

Thad Cummings, one of the restaurant’s original investors, told local Michigan site MLive that the Garden Diner and Café, which was called Bartertown Diner until September, had struggled to pay its workers or turn a profit.


The restaurant’s (now-defunct) Facebook page was flooded with complaints from patrons angry at its slow service. Patrons hungry for a sandwich would find the café shuttered at odd times, thanks to opening hours set by employee group decision.

Some commenters gleefully attributed the restaurant’s failure to flaws in socialism. One commentator, who tagged his post “collectivist nincompoopery,” wrote on MLive “why is it that progressives refuse to acknowledge that socialism doesn’t work and never has? It can’t work because it runs afoul of natural law and human nature.”


But for others in Grand Rapids, the restaurant wasn’t progressive enough. After sending a free meal to the local police department, some complained that it had sold out by cozying up to the city’s “nearly all-white police force in this era of police violence.”

So, what does the closure of the Garden Diner and Café reveal about the merits of one political system over another? Probably not a lot.

The Virgin Vegan Sandwhich Cafe vs The Chad BBQ & Foot Massage

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

OK, so, we're having a lot of trouble keeping these particular cake mixes in stock. We can't make enough to keep up with demand. So logically, the best solution to this problem is to... stop making that cake mix!

Problem solved!

Yeah, this really happened. This is what happens when management gets a bit too detached from the... you know... reason for running a business.

That's certainly a... shall we say novel way of solving the problem, if I could give a baffled rating I would, could you give the name of the company so that I can look it up?

As for stuff I've seen I love infomercial stuff and thus there's all sort I'm sure that would qualify, but I'll just go with this classic.

 

[LinuxVoid]

In an alternate reality Bad Spot could have become notch. Isn't that horrifying?

Satin Minions - Original Erotic Artwork

satinminions.com

 

[Wendy Carter]

A site where you laugh at stupid people on the internet. People are just going to complain about you and try to shut your site down at any opportunity given to them.

 

[PT 940]

Not sure if this counts but there was a girl on a forum years ago who said she was trying to start her own music promotion company and she was advertising it with rave kandi (colorful beaded bracelets people make then wear to/trade at raves) and her idea was to trade people bracelets she already made with the person she traded with making ones for her with her business name on it instead of just making them herself and handing them out.

 

[Dropped Burner]

There was a breakfast place that only sold cereal.

To be fair, IHOP started as a humble pancake stand by the side of the road. Sometimes you just have to water the seed you have and see what grows.

 

[Matthew216]

I remember seeing this on early morning tv a long while ago. Imagine if this aired today.