There is no OpenAI model better than R1, reasoning or not (as confirmed by the same Aider benchmark; non-coding tests are less objective, but I think it still holds).
With Gemini (current SOTA) and Sonnet (great potential, but tends to overengineer/overdo things) it is debatable, they are probably better than R1 (and all OpenAI models by extension).
Sonnet 3.7 non-reasoning is better on its own. In fact even Sonnet 3.5-v2 is, and that was released 6 months ago. Now to be fair, they're close enough that there will be usecases - especially non-coding - where 4.1 beats it consistently. Also, 4.1 is quite a lot cheaper and faster. Still, OpenAI is clearly behind.
Asking "Source?" on a topic where some prerequisite knowledge should be required is a lazy Reddit tactic. But here, since it took me 30 seconds to find:
There's other sources too covering different timeframes. It's all information in the public sphere. Stats Canada for example tracks a ton of stats about various businesses.
Come on, this is a startup news board... Failure rate of startups is 90%, restaurants 60%. Both well known facts. You can verify in 2 minutes on Google.
Possibly, depends on location, niche, and various other factors outside of your control like if there's going to be a pandemic that forces restaurants to close. Plus it's still a big risk in the upfront investments you need to make.
The upfront capital requirements and lock-in to choices seems more flexibly balanced with those approaches, vs a traditional "heavy" brick and mortar restaurant. Or as we say around here, better to fail small and quickly.
It's unclear what benefits a high-capital restaurant would have these alternatives, that would merit the increased risk. Fancy service? Nobody cares anymore. Economies of scale? Maybe, but seems dubious. Building a brand? Useless when your landlord is fine with selling the building for conversion to residential on any given year.
Liquor, and the ability to sell it. So many places would go under if not for their ability to sell you marked up beer/cocktails. Now, depending on local it may be hard to get a liquor license (shout out New Jersey!!!) for a building and in others you may be able to sell drinks from a truck. But that's one major profit center advantage that building have over trucks.
https://livebench.ai/