Kevin Bond bought a Tesla Model 3 with his pension after he retired. He told BI he swapped it for a BYD Seal partly because of Elon Musk's politics.

Before the opening, Musk shared a drone shot of the new diner. In an accompanying comment, he said that if this first Tesla Diner proves popular, the company will open more of them “in major cities around the world as well as at Supercharger sites on long distance routes.”