5 restaurant closures in Orange County include Mimi?s Cafe and 2 Pick up Stix

Pick Up Stix Quail Hill and Coffee Bean Irvine Marketplace both closed.

Mimi's closed in Laguna Niguel.

The locals are quick to blame the Asian invasion for all these closures but the reality is all these places that were once popular in the 1990's have reached the end of their lifecycle.
https://www.ocregister.com/2017/12/...clude-mimis-cafe-and-2-pick-up-stix-eateries/

Pick Up Stix is bad in general and that Coffee Bean was getting killed by the Corner Bakery.

I assume high rent cost plays a factor. Also, the demographics, demand, and pricing plays a factor.

A lot of business look at gross margin to be the factor. But if you don?t have sales than GM don?t mean nothing.

Too bad for Pickup Stix, although that was a weird choice for opening a new location since there was already Thai Bamboo and at the time Crystal Jade (which turned into some other Chinese restaurant before it closed).

Pickup Stix is decent for fresh-cooked Americanized Chinese, better than PeiWei... although if I'm going to eat middling Chinese food, I prefer the steam table version like Panda Express... or the old Irvine legend that is now gone... Wokman.

Unfortunate for Coffee Bean. Really like their latte.

They already have a sign up for a new coffee place in the old coffee bean location. Something like red dot coffee (or something like that). 

Edit: Blackdot...I suppose if I read the article it would help. 

There's a pickup stix at Alton and Jeffery.  The two locations are too close.