Success Secrets in Fort Worth

In our ever-changing world and society, there seems to be a new invention, celebrity or food fad every five minutes. One day, everyone loves juicing; the next day, quinoa. What it will be next week is anyone’s guess. It is hard to keep up with these trends when there seems to be a new one right as we are getting accustomed to the old one. This fad is happening in Fort Worth, and with restaurants in particular. After growing up in Houston my entire life, a huge, metropolitan city, the move to Fort Worth was intriguing and exciting. I was ready to experience “Cowtown,” as I had heard, and see what this smaller-scale city was like. Upon moving here in the fall of 2010 and becoming a student at Texas Christian University, I was immediately impressed with the atmosphere of not only the city, but the food as well. I had immediately grown to love places like Sushi Axiom, Loveshack and Inzo, all restaurants well within my college budget and not too far from campus. Although these were classic choices for me and my friends when we would go out to eat, we always heard of one or two new restaurants we had to try. We would go and try them out, enjoy them, and then six months later, they would be gone. It was peculiar to me why these restaurants had so much hype and would then be gone in what seemed like an instant. Since we as a culture seem to be obsessed with the latest and greatest trend, it made me wonder, what does it take to be a successful restaurant in Fort Worth? What qualities does a restaurant need to have to stay in business for longer than just six months and even then, why has it lasted? Fort Worth is home to some of the most amazing restaurants, and I’m going to examine the success secrets of three of those restaurants.