To the surprise of almost nobody, the Tesla Diner is falling short of claims

A complete and utter fool.

You mean people don't love 4 sad strips of bacon for $12. Who could've seen that coming.

Over promised and barely delivered, just like so much of the Mush agenda.

100% on brand, promise steak and chips, deliver offal and rice crackers.

The Muskrat strikes again to fleece the cult

I'm fairly certain Elon Musk doesn't have a clue at the percentage of people in the civilized world who absolutely hate him.

Seriously, once the hype dies down the resteruant will struggle to make any cash

As long as the doors don't trap you inside while you get burned alive then it's actually well above expectations. TSLA gamma squeeze to $400 eow

Wild how few comments are here. Musk is literally just Musking. Pump in the beginning, then it dies a slow, agonizing death that should have never been. After about 2018, literally everyone should have seen the writing on the wall with this guy. Fraud, waste, abuse… and the biggest welfare queen of them all is fraudster lying his way to the top. I’m sure eventually the truth will come out, but at this point, he will likely be dead halfway to mars so it won’t matter. This fucker needs to see consequences, but I am starting to believe they will never come.

Removed the veggie burger. Now I can’t even go unless I just want a shake or a fry

Just another shitty, overpriced Musk product.

I looked at the menu and it basically sucks...not surprisingly.

It is crass. Big fuck off sign in front of the residential buildings and overpriced food. Like the car, it is McDonalds level food but sold at a luxury price. The difference is with McDonalds you do not go there thinking you are having a fancy meal.

Unlike musk’s other failures this one will be comically visible when the hype dies down and people stop going to the restaurant.

The Tuna Melt should have been called “Not Hot Dog”.

Tesla is now a fast food giant that’s going to surpass McDonalds. Stock up +69% in a year

It could actually be a great concept. You have nothing to do but wait while charging; even if on a fast charger, it’s still gonna take a few minutes. Why not eat? And drive up diners are fun, let’s absolutely bring them back. A lot of Tesla things could be great things if executed properly. That’s why I get particularly frustrated with the company.

It's a really bad time to open any restaurant in LA, but an anti-woke overpriced and underserved shithole is just gonna burn cash.

1 fry = $1

Hey fuck you guy, Big Macs are delicious.

>Tesla Diner chef Eric Greenspan ... TIL😞

I am not criticizing McDonalds even. I like a Big Mac occasional. I just do not go there thinking I am getting a fancy meal. And I am not paying a fancy price. To tell the truth, looking at the Tesla menu in this post, it looks gross. Far worse than McDonalds. That burnt grill cheese was vile.

we're looking at Full Self Serving in the next 14 months... so hold on to you're stocks!

Epic!

He has hundreds of millions of followers and is drunk on the attention he gets. Somebody needs to give him a severe dose of reality and show him how pathetic he comes across as. How an ostensively well meaning person can end up sieg heiling and not be aware of what a cunt he has become is a modern day delusion equal to any other in history and future history books won't be kind to him.

MVP Minimum viable product Why go the extra mile when it’s not going to improve margins? Why use 4 screws when three can hold it together? Elon is actually proud of this, it’s part of his ‘algorithm’ as told in his bio. The same shit driven by private equity is the guiding principle of every Elon business. His true customers are his investors.

LOL at the grilled cheese burnt on the outside and unmleted cheese on the inside.

Tesla: Selling garbage to rubes since 2004.

Teslas famous ability to execute shines again.

Why would a "tech" company that is going to be worth " trillions" fuck with the difficult restaurant business ??

They reduced the menu items due to the infinite demand

It may be expensive food, but at least it's shitty. So when can I get basic, decent windshield wiper performance?

It probably already does....

Ate there last night, and all three of us loved the burgers, fried chicken sandwich, fries, milkshake and Apple pie.

The most overpromised, underdelivered flop since... the last thing they released.

As long as he has a mirror in every room he’ll be happy.

IKR? I'd fire any company responsible for running kitchens that put out a simple grilled cheese like that. But then, I'm not a gazillionaire super genius.

Congratulations?

That's pretty much my opinion as well based on everything I've read about it. If they had built the video screens so that they're oriented towards the parking spots like proper drive-in ones, so it's possible to easily watch stuff. If they had onboard ordering from the vehicle working, so you could either order ahead of time or upon arrival and someone brings it out to your spot, great. Keep a smaller dining area inside and on the roof. Be able to actually execute some classic diner fare! Even if it's not jazzed up, actually be able to make good, appealing food! And don't price it like luxury sit-down when it's clearly not.

They're "disruptive"!

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I guess real tesla fans do like to pay more and get less!

The worldwide fastfood market is valued at over 1 trillion $ So I fully, 100% logically expect the Tesla diner to generate double that in revenue maybe even 300%, that sounds like a neat number. In the future, your own tesla kitchen will cook all by itself and people will come dine at your home when you're out working! Genious! What could go wrong!?

Forget screws! Just Elmer’s glue it!

Crazy that after only two weeks it’s already being stripped back so obviously, it’s hard to hide diminished expectations at a restaurant with so much publicity surrounding it. You’d think they’d keep it going a few months at least, even if they were losing money. I’m sure they could end up losing a few tens of thousands of $ a month because restaurants are hard, but what’s a few hundred thousand bucks to a company worth, as of 8/6 at market close, a cool $1.00T…right?

Typical Musk scam.

How were the prices?

Didn't expect to see cum-restaurant in the very first sentence.

The fries are cooked in beef tallow.

I’m not really understanding the article. They are streamlining the menu and eliminating less popular items. Lots of new restaurants have done similar changes. I don’t know if it will be a long term success. But it’s a cool idea at the very least and I’m sure they will consider opening up another one in a popular spot with high charging usage.

What the hell is up with that phrasing, though? "the charging station-cum-restaurant"

Optimus robots fully autonomously making burgers 🍔in 1-2 weeks!

Lmao

Some say “the hate is only on Reddit”. It it’s not true. My uncle - a 65yo farmer who never uses internet except for admin stuff - 6 months ago, when I was visiting him, out of the blue talked about him and said things that would get me banned from here. I really didn’t expect that, since he usually trends to be on the conservative side.

Don't worry, the non-veggie burger likely never contained meat to begin with!

Three times worse than going by yourself.

Did I just read "cum-restaurant"?

They have already been sued by a lady almost killed by a falling ceiling panel whilst dining.

And his true product is stock. Selling overpriced stock to greater fools. It's what's made him a billionaire.

They store the frozen food outside in the sun. Let us know if you got to the ER later.

Me, Myself, and I?

You are not ready for this restaurant to buy 50k units of humanoids and make tesla another trillion dollars on their account *_*

All those food items look like they should have generic food labeling on it. Nothing here looks particularly appetizing.

In the linked article it says ***quote*** “unprecedented demand” led to the team scaling down the menu for efficiency. ***Unquote***. Is there one person out there who actually buys this illogical horseshit?

Musk is trying to innovate and disrupt the stale Diner market with his totally new and transformative, proprietary Tesla Diner. Sure, it looks like guys that never did diners before, and cobbled together a diner ignoring all lessons in diner building, implementing the IDEA Musk has of a diner (nor that Musk has ever eaten or will ever eat in a Diner). not /s, I'm certain this is Musk's plan. Basically what he does in everything, only it's a diner, and it's very easy to see what doesn't work.

To be fair, the hatred of Musk seems to be fairly bipartisan. He picked up a little conservative support when he started back Trump, but not nearly as much as he lost from Democrats. IMO, there's some interesting studies on Cult dynamics. Once of them is that in order to really get indoctrinated into a cult, you have to buy into the adjacent sub cultures that the cult recruits from. Trump's following doesn't actually come from any of his own attributes, but from becoming an avatar for conservative conspiracy theories. Musk has his own cult, but it arrives from a different sub culture and it's not nearly as pervasive as the conspiracies Trump is hawking. There is some overlaps, but people usually only have one true master in a Cult. So when the honeymoon with Trump was over, Musk didn't really take any Trumpers with him.

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It’s actually two strips of bacon cut in half.

No roller skating wait staff? He promised us roller skating wait staff.

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to make a grilled cheese? Only a 3 star Michelin chef could possibly cook one properly. In all seriousness, I'm not surprised the chef behind Mr Beast Burger can't teach his cooks to properly make a grilled cheese.

The food computer will shut off 3 seconds before the food poisoning kicks in ...

Trump supporters were angry that Elon budged in line and went front and center, right in front of all the MAGA die hards that have been riding Trump's D for years. This was Steve Bannon and MTG's beef. The techno fascists came in with Vance and basically placed themself front and center and pushed out the previous administrations MAGA faithful's. Suddenly it was Trump seemingly following Elon's wishes, and not theirs. Your also right, cults can't blame the leader for anything, so they have to blame the people next to them for all the disasters of DOGE and other bullshit on someone. Trump CANT be responsible for anything bad, its always his advisors mislead him, he is getting bad advice, he is playing 5d chess, or deep state is screwing him. They get to blame Elon rather than Trump for being hurt by Trump.

*He* knew what he was writing.

There actually were idiots waiting for hours to eat that crap.

The one putting popcorn in the cup already failed so makes sense!

Did you get a horse?

Also, when someone breaks from cult beliefs, they often break _hard_. Not just 'a few of the ideas were bad' but 'everything about them was wrong'. So when people jump ship, they're likely to reject everything about the original group

What kind of a person would go here? No dems or repubs…. Just Elon?

Why would you go? Why do you like Elon?

Nobody likes Elon. This is only a “cool idea” to him.

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The followers are mostly bots and his dupes

I want to see Full Self Cooking & Cleaning!

> it’s a cool idea at the very least Whats cool about this idea?

> all three of us loved the burgers, fried chicken sandwich, fries, milkshake and Apple pie. The three of you all had all of these things? Doubt. Just another person white knighting for a billionaire that doesn't care about you at all.

Oh my lord the amount of times my car does not wipe the windshield when it’s raining is seriously criminal.

you would be financially irresponsible to not buy a tesla burger. that burger will be earning the customer 30k a year much like their model 3

This is what’s odd to me about this very quick rough stretch. This restaurant cannot possibly fit into Tesla’s strategy as a viable restaurant business. It’s ridiculous to enter the food service industry as a tech company except as a marketing effort. As such, it makes no sense that it wouldn’t be adequately funded to run well for at least as long as it takes to get the marketing win and stay out of the news. I mean it couldn’t be that anyone thought this was a viable business line that should sink or swim on its own merits. Could it?

If at all possible it would be good if all business interests of the guy who help get Trump elected would fail. If, like me, you bought a Tesla because you in part bought into the vision of "hey, maybe we should keep the planet from warming up due to green house gasses" then helping elect the guy who is telling NASA to blow up the satellites monitoring green house gases is anathema. Here's hoping Tesla and it's diner go into receivership.

I bet he has a clue but he’s got a bunch of drugs to zone out of reality everyday

TeslaLounge says that is normal operating parameters fyi

Does it need to? The whole thing is an advertisement stunt. Who cares if it makes money as long as people are talking about it. Once the hype dies down its purpose has already been served.

I know that’s why American McDonalds fries aren’t considered vegetarian but so many other fast food fries are

Obviously that speaks to the quality of the fry /s if by fry you mean a whole potato.

If it’s over-hyped, overpriced, cheaply produced crap, then it’s a perfect metaphore for the company.

Restaurant was announced seven years ago, and my son took about 7 years to be able to make a grilled cheese sandwich. For Tesla, that’s way ahead of schedule!

Exactly. If you saw them at Costco for $1.79 fine.

It seems about as well thought out as the Cybertruck, which to all appearances resulted from someone's napkin sketch of John Bladerunners car.

I'm doing my part!

It was definitely a choice, given Elons desire to spread his, uh seed.

Maybe it's negative hype, though? The phrase "there's no such thing as bad press" doesn't really apply to a ~~tech company~~ meme stock built on the premise of unlimited explosive growth. This diner being nothing more than a cheesy stunt with no substance underneath kind of reveals the entire company to be the same damn thing...which it is.

"the charging station-cum-restaurant" --- I'm sorry, what??

Just ask the people living behind the giant screen the Tesla Diner erected!

“Optimus, the second-floor popcorn robot, was nowhere to be found”..Is there only one working Optimus robot in existence?

They can’t keep paying 3 people to work the popcorn machine. (1 to tele-operate the automaton, 1 to hand the boxes to the automaton, and a third to load popcorn kernels into the popper)

Oh boii, can‘t wait for that pump following such great news. Calls! 🚀

It's Latin for, essentially "with." So, for example, magna cum laude = "with great praise." In this case it's a charging station with a restaurant. Or a charging station that also serves as a restaurant. Or... is it? In this case it's also hilarious.

yeah i totally get what they were meaning but it is really hilarious in this context.

Full Self Digesting by the end of next year, guaranteed!

groimes thay durn't loike me doinah

Um. "Greenspan said soft serve ice cream would be back on the menu later this week, so the farm could meet the increased demand" I am not a dairy expert or farmer, but I assure you any place I have seen soft serve ice cream (including places I worked at) didn't get a from a farm.

How do you Fcuk up French fries though? Or make a hot dog awful. It's bonkers that people want to shine this guy's helmet on Mars. I can't think of an easier way to invent space slavery.

The last dozen pathetic stunts didn't hurt the share price. I keep expecting the lies and bullshit to matter when exposed but somehow they never do. Meme stock believers just focus on the next bullshit lie and ignore how the last ones played out.

Restaurants are very hard. Something like 9 out of 10 new restaurants close within a year of opening afaik? And profit margins are notoriously slim. Plus, you're always vulnerable to disruptions in the supply chain, a bad crop, tariffs, bird flu, etc.

Wait, Elon is a hype machine? Too bad there was never any evidence of that before!

It doesn't matter until it does...and it only has to matter ONCE. Then? Look out below. Once a true selloff is ignited, there's no floor for this turd but ZERO.

With the bullshit washed away Tesla is just a failing car company, historically those have traded close to zero.

B I N G O

Did Trump ever see consequences for being an absolute piece of shit his entire life?

Ah, now i see. It’s like the Boring Company but worse.

You’re just not a supra-genius so you don’t get it.

The goal of extending Tesla’s inflated market valuation has been achieved for another quarter, on to the next hype

I just imagined a protester walking in on a Friday, screaming "Elon Musk is a Nazi!", mimicking his not-a-sieg-heil gesture, then looking confused when an inanely grinning staff member hands him a free burger.

"We expect to have thousands of Optimus robots working in Tesla factories by the end of this year, beginning this fall," Musk told Faber on CNBC, "And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than any product, I think, in history, to get to millions of units per year as soon as possible." - [Musk in April this year](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/elon-musk-on-robotaxi-optimus-tariffs-energy-and-teslas-future.html) So, July he puts a robot in his new diner, but by August it is nowhere to be seen. What, only one person knows how to teleoperate it, and he's off sick? It's broken already, and they can neither fix it quickly nor do they have a spare? Yet Optimus is supposed to be the ["biggest product ever"](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/elon-musk-on-robotaxi-optimus-tariffs-energy-and-teslas-future.html)?

we can have avocado toast (i thought that was too woke?)

That might've worked at the peak of Musk hype years ago (incidentally when this idea was conceived) when he could do no wrong according to the press. The 'all press is good press' mentality hasn't worked lately - If rebranding Twitter and putting up an annoying (and illegal) sign helped the company in any way, I fail to see the it. Now people are less likely than ever to be dazzled by the hype and prepared look past the shortcomings. If anything the risk here is that the diner becomes a meme emblem of Musk failures: Overpromise, delay (I mean really, _7 years_ to start a restaurant?) and then underdeliver a product that costs more while being worse than the competition, all in a hype package that costs a ton but fails to turn a profit. The failings are all the more obvious because people _get_ food. They don't know what the heck it costs to build a tunnel (or what makes one good), or a rocket or whatever. But everyone knows a shitty overpriced grilled-cheese sandwich if they see one.

And your son will likely be old enough to drive you places before a robotaxi can.

Gotta love how they call they guy who throws a piece of bacon on a grilled cheese a chef. LMAO

Disruptive to bowels.

I read that Musck envisioned his diners/charging facilities scattered all over the country, giving people a way to relax while their cars are charging. Like Buccee's for EVs but with crappy food.

Sounds like a Sonic with electrical outlets.

Cows had to go hardcore.

These are the pics they are using to *tempt* people? Like, this is the BEST version they have found? It looks AI and that's the nicest thing I have to say.

That burned grilled cheese sandwich borders on a war crime.

Cheese and gherkins with tuna? That's unusual

Can confirm, was raised a Gilead theocrat from preschool and when the scales fell from my eyes…hoo boy!

Fyre Festival rides again!

Remember when they stuck the giant X on their building without a permit, just tied it down with sandbags or sth?

Now THAT’S disruption!

Seriously! Twenty years ago on blogs I was arguing that in order to make EVs viable, there needed to be the equivalent of a gas station network across country here in the US—but you’re right, it needs to be a rest area/truck stop since charging takes longer than “fill ‘er up”. And if you combined it with a small tourist attraction, like a movie theater—even one that just shows shorts, like IMAX nature/local interest films—then people wouldn’t feel like they were wasting their time waiting around to finish charging…

I did see one, where the local State University had an ag program that included dairy, and they had a joint project with the business school running an ice cream stand that sold to the football game crowds…but that’s the ONLY “udder-to-cone” outfit I know of.

seriously—it’s acceptable to use “/“ OR to write it out as “charging-station-slash-restaurant” and even with the alternate meanings of “slash” it’s STILL less off-color.

I understood that reference…unfortunately 🤮

What I can’t understand is why they wouldn’t sub it out to a local chain to handle the food part? There are so many possibilities—I know, for example, that just to pick one, Habit Burger runs smaller burger joints inside college food courts along with their stand-alone locations, but even those offer a full menu which is WAY more extensive than this…mess… and an even smaller chain with (I think) 4 restaurants between Palm Springs & LA has a MUCH more extensive menu…and reliably tasty burgers & sides within 10 minutes, every time.

I think a big part of the failure here is he has to be the smartest guy in the room. So if he didn't think of it, it's seen as a challenge to his self identity and highly unverified intellect. We can look forward to this being called an experimental prototype and will be abandoned in two years tops. Remember, he doesn't clean up after his ventures further junk up the Earth or Space. No one does on that last one though..

The bacon on what?

They offered the bacon as a side.

You have extremely low standards

No, I just like a trashy burger once in a while and I don’t care who knows it.

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ hate is a proof he's doing good and doesn't care!