I always find it interesting when an idea or a player in an industry changes the game! A couple that come to mind at present is Uber and Merivale in entertainment.
Merivale has been around Sydney for decades in the form of Slipp Inn, Angel Place, CBD, Ivy and many more! More recently they have come to the beaches and brought their style of bars to Coogee Pavilion and the Newport Arms; I have experienced Coogee which is very busy and Newport has also been embraced by the locals and trading well.
The bar options at these beaches has not been keeping up with the changing demographics and the move to more personable and up market drinking venues as seen by the many new wine bars. These beaches people have been crying out for drinking venues like this close to home rather than taxi ‘s home from Paddington, Surry Hills and Darlinghurst…
Often when you go to these Merivale bars and comment this is like such and such bar in New York, Paris etc. Apparently Merivale management travel the world, see good ideas and implement some of these ideas very well in the right locations with little tweaks for the local market! This does not sound too hard, though it takes plenty of conviction, commitment, consistency and hard work to put the idea (stolen idea or otherwise) into practice! We have all seen good bars and other business ideas while travelling and thought I should set that up when I get home and have a cool business that makes a fortune; how many follow through on their ideas?