It's never packed when I pass by. Heck, when I've eaten there, I'm usually one of two tables or so.
Their low wages and high server turnaround do not indicate a healthy business, though.
That would support my assertion that an EV charger is the last thing they need to worry about. However, I do find it's been packed on weekends as expected, decent food and service, and you contradict their own statement (if true above) that they don't care to lose any lot space to a charger. Their lot is too busy.
The median new EV (excepting motorcycles) is 181 miles. But that really doesn't indicate installed base, does it? Or whether gaining a dozen or two miles while eating would be more convenient than not and make them more likely to choose that location.
That's plenty of range for a full day along the coast. No charging station is needed there (a Bolt would add 20% range out in a 90-minute L2 stop... meh, not needeed).
Sure. If you don't want to grow the EV market. I suppose they don't need to interact with vehicles of the twenty-first century.
It has nothing to do with what you or I want. Alice's could give a crap about growing the EV market. They don't need to. if their lot is full, it doesn't matter if they're ICE or EV. Future chargers belong over at the STP station and not Alice's anyway.
I realize you'd really like a plug there, because it would benefit you disproportionately, but that's your wish and not their problem. Keep working on them. Maybe they could become a ChargePoint location at zero cost or even profit. They'd have to run a 50A service out there.
Still, I would welcome DCFC at Skywood, as long as they're dropping millions...
Assertion. False. Even at California's inflated prices, it doesn't cost 'millions' to put in a charging station.
Wrong. Reading comprehension. I never said it did, and even documented the actual costs above. They dropped millions on the hydrogen station.
