I wasn’t talking about a one-off group either. Let the vegetarians come daily; they are no more correct on day 301 than they were on day 1. They can make up 1% of the restaurants visitors, or 99%; They have not been made more correct.
You could argue that the restaurant is unreasonable to not service this audience — they’re leaving money on the table — but you cannot say that the restaurant is incorrect in trying serving a particular cuisine for a particular audience.
To argue otherwise is to demand that no Chinese restaurant should exist in an American town, serving Chinese food appreciated by Chinese people, because the majority of the locality is American. If you want to argue what matters is the people who actually visit… then ignoring those incorrect visitors will eventually filter them out, leaving you with the audience actually intended (or rather the audience you deserve? Which hopefully matches your intent)
My argument is mostly, that if you don't have enough of an audience to remain open, and there is generally enough of an audience in the area of the restaurant, than it's upon you, not the (potential) customers to adapt.
Sure; I'm calling that unreasonable, but not incorrect. The market determines what is profitable, not what is good. Ultimately if you want something good to persist, you must also ensure it is profitable (or find ways around the market -- subsidies), but it not the case that profitable things are inherently good, and it is not the case that things are inherently not good because they not profitable.
So I say it is unreasonable to hold onto something good in the face of lack of profitability, unwilling to change, but it does not say anything about whether they it was produced well for the audience they intended to serve (it is simply the case that their intended audience either does not exist, or does not exist in sufficient numbers to be profitable -- or it was poorly produced for the intended audience).
You could argue that the restaurant is unreasonable to not service this audience — they’re leaving money on the table — but you cannot say that the restaurant is incorrect in trying serving a particular cuisine for a particular audience.
To argue otherwise is to demand that no Chinese restaurant should exist in an American town, serving Chinese food appreciated by Chinese people, because the majority of the locality is American. If you want to argue what matters is the people who actually visit… then ignoring those incorrect visitors will eventually filter them out, leaving you with the audience actually intended (or rather the audience you deserve? Which hopefully matches your intent)