Peeve's Could Never Be Saved

by The Editor

I suppose this is the third part in a series of "#SavePeeves posts". Catch the first two parts, Is Peeve's Worth Saving? and How to Save Peeve's. Or don't. It's not like it matters anyways.

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That's it, folks. Peeve's is done. The place for everyone is now the place for no one. Despite all its pleas for help, despite the promises it would stay open, despite whatever the fuck this was, it's over.

It's also over in spite of one other thing which should have been able to keep it open for years. 

"Almost a million dollars in revenue" in their second year.

Now don't get me wrong, I did the math and running a catch-all gastropub is expensive and it's likely that near 1/4 of their revenue went to taxes. But still. That's $1,000,000 (almost)!  That's roughly $83,000 (or 16,000 pints of beer) A MONTH. How is that even possible?

And how do you fuck that up?

How do you fuck up with the level of support you had?

I once wrote that, if Peeve's should fail, it may discourage other businesses from opening up downtown. I just want to say to those businesses that it's not downtown, it's Peeve's. It's obvious that there's a buck to made downtown but Peeve's didn't know what to do with that buck once they made it.

I don't have a business degree but its clear that even I know more about running one than anyone at Peeve's ever did. All I can say is #SavePeeves was never going to happen. But thanks anyways for stringing everyone along and wasting our time and money. I mean, shit, I wrote 3 FUCKING PIECES ABOUT THIS. Somehow I feel like the biggest ass in this whole thing and it wasn't even my business!

So, Peeve's, I'll leave you with this:

Goodbye Peeve's. Burn in hell.