Eating Raoul

In the movie, Eating Raoul, the Blands' are an interesting couple.  They are trying to raise enough money to put a down payment on a restaurant they want to open called Chez Bland.  Mary is a beautiful nurse married to Paul, an idiot who can't hold a job.  During the first scene of the movie, Paul loses his job as a cashier at a liquor store for refusing to sell cheap wine to a customer.  He is also sitting on a number (at least 6) of bottles of 1948 Chateau Lafitte.  He refuses to sell the bottles to a rich buyer for $500/bottle.

The Bland's are good, albeit naive people surrounded by, murderers, robbers, thieves and chauvinists. By keeping this company, they see things that they would normally see as crimes as normal.  After they are taken advantage of by numerous individuals, Mary concocts the plan to lure "rich, perverts" to the apartment and kill them in order to steal their money.  If the Blands kept better company and not so naive, they never would have fallen victim to these scams, nor would they have normalized murder and stealing.

Raoul, the mentor and partner the Bland's end up with is a mixed bag.  The Bland's share their competitive advantage of, "We lure them here with sex, then kill them and steal their money."  He says he wants to be a partner, but he is not interested in their business, he is interested in using the Bland's idea to make more money.  Raoul makes his real money by taking car keys from the people the Bland's kill and stealing their cars.  But, to the Bland's credit, when they learn how Raoul is making his money, they steal his idea to open up more revenue streams.

In the end, the Bland's succeed in opening their restaurant and do more things correctly.  First, they name the restaurant Paul and Mary's Country Kitchen instead of Chez Bland.  Also, due to stealing more than $40,000 the night of the swinger's party, they have far more capital than they need to start their restaurant.

Although Paul and Mary are somewhat qualified to open a restaurant, he is interested in wine and food and Mary is a nutritionist and is a good cook, they have no plan or mentor.  They have done no feasibility analysis, they are just going on instinct.