John Mackey
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Oh, you do?
Yes, it meets Whole Foods market standards, and we purchase it from Whole Foods.
Yeah, thank you.
So the moral of the story is you have to meet the market where you find it.
If you're an entrepreneur, you can't force your own values on other people.
And the reality is, much as I don't like it, only half of 1% of the population of the United States is vegan.
That's so tiny.
Yeah.
Vegan restaurants are failing everywhere in Los Angeles right now.
I don't know if you know.
Restaurants in general are failing, but the vegan restaurants are just going out of business.
Ones I love, like Real Food Daily, which I always came here to eat.
They don't have anything open anymore.
No, that's closed.
Really?
I know because I wanted to go there.
Yeah.
It's closed.
LA was, along with New York, was kind of the vegan restaurant capital of the United States.
But New York's losing them too.