What might a Tesla restaurant look like?
When normal people plan to open a restaurant they look at finance, scout for locations and draft menus. When Elon Musk does it he files a patent. But then Elon Musk isnt normal. He builds rockets for space and electric cars for planet Earth, is a 49-year-old entrepreneur, one of the richest men in the world, who can cause mass chaos by simply posting a broken heart emoji on Twitter (the value of Bitcoin plummeted seven per cent last month after he cast doubt on the cryptocurrency to his 56.8 million followers). So when he moots an interest in the hospitality scene, us restaurant watchers and diners had better take note. His declaration of intent comes in an application to the US Patent and Trademark Office to use the T logo of his Tesla Inc electric car and clean energy company and other iterations of the Tesla logo for restaurant services, pop-up restaurant services, self-service restaurant services', and 'take-out restaurant services.  Experience suggests that Musk doesnt enter business lightly. Born in South Africa, having emigrated to Canada at the age of 17, he graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He then moved swiftly into the internet start-up world of Silicon Valley and by 2002, as the largest shareholder in PayPal, he received over $100 million when it was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion. Since then his preoccupations have included SpaceX, for which the likes of testing of satellites and building rockets has cost around 10 billion.