Der folgende Vorfall zeigt, dass es immer wieder Geschäftsmodelle gibt, die ohne innovativ zu sein (und wirklich lowtech) in einer Nische zum nachhaltigen Erfolg führen können!

From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement

Outside England ’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, the parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were 1 pound sterling for cars, 5 for buses and all parking fees were paid in cash.

Then one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, the parking attendant failed to show up for several consecutive days; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked them to send the Zoo a parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then had simply showed up every day to collect and keep the cash parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day — for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars! (Anmerkung: Ob das wohl versteuert wurde?)

And no one even knows his name.