Toby Howell
speaker
33,236 appearances
345 recordings
5 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard yesterday
Toby Howell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 204 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 49.
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Has your local bagel shop started to sell suspiciously trendy merch?
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Is your favorite neighborhood coffee spot starting to post Instagram videos with a little too curated of a vibe?
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It could be a sign that private equity has moved in on your favorite eateries, a trend I want to talk about on today's edition of Toby's Trends.
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The PE-ification of food places is causing an open rebellion amongst consumers who are tired of funds coming in to try and squeeze out every last dime out of their favorite spots.
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The most recent example comes here in New York City, where Los Tacos No.
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1 looks to a fallen victim to an undisclosed investment from the PE firm TSG Consumer.
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Despite its founders promising that they are definitely not messing with the tacos, most people immediately joked how it was the beginning of the end, where juicy al pastor would give way to juicy profits.
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Oftentimes, private equity is wielded as an insult regardless of if a fund is involved or not, meant to evoke a lack of charm or soullessness.
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It has now become a kind of meme where everything gets worse as soon as it's bought by private equity.
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Greenwell says she teaches high schoolers who can't even really articulate what private equity is and yet tell her they'd never eat at a place owned by it.
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You know, everyone's had food from one of these places, crumble cookies, blank street coffee.
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They all just have this vibe to them.
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Trust me here.
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I don't mind some of them, but I can see why they rub people the wrong way.
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They all kind of look the same, and you feel like they just don't have any soul.
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But if you're a
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There also is just this vibe to a lot of them.
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And a lot of people, you just kind of know upon walking in that it is owned by private equity.
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A lot of that has to do with the food itself.
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