If an established restaurant sees any sense in offering a 60% discount, it's probably already fucked. You said that the restaurant looked dirty and uninviting from the outside. That would be fine if it was part of a successful restaurant's branding, but clearly they're not successful, otherwise they wouldn't be offering a 60% discount.
Groupon is for the most part the small business equivalent of Pets.com losing a buck on every sale and making it up on volume. Anyone who has been in the business for more than five minutes knows that voucher customers convert very poorly to regulars. Given the size of the discount and Groupon's cut, there's no way that this restaurant could be profitably converting, particularly if they're making no effort at all to do so.
Badly run businesses are badly run; Film at eleven.
Groupon is for the most part the small business equivalent of Pets.com losing a buck on every sale and making it up on volume. Anyone who has been in the business for more than five minutes knows that voucher customers convert very poorly to regulars. Given the size of the discount and Groupon's cut, there's no way that this restaurant could be profitably converting, particularly if they're making no effort at all to do so.
Badly run businesses are badly run; Film at eleven.