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Famed Chef Emeril Lagasse Says Obama May Drive Him Broke
PJ Tatler ^ | September 25, 2014 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 09/26/2014 12:53:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Famed chef Emeril Lagasse says that it’s becoming all but impossible to be a successful restaurateur in America today. The government just gets in the way too much. Lagasse specifically singled out the current president’s policies.

“It’s becoming a very challenging industry to become a very successful average restaurateur,” continued Lagasse. “I can’t charge $300 a person in my restaurant or I would not be in business. Am I using any different ingredients? Not really. Am I using any caliber of service staff? I don’t think so. I think our service is as good or better than most places.”

“And then you add all the Obama nonsense to what it’s become in the last several years. I don’t have anything against Mr. Obama. I’m just saying the way that, you know… the government should stay out of things. [...] Pretty soon, they’re going to wipe a lot of the middle restaurateurs and restaurant cooks. [...] If it continues, then watch: you’re going to have high-end, and you’re going to have fast food, and you’re going to have chain restaurants.”

Lagasse shared his thoughts on TNT’s On the Menu. He predicts that if the government doesn’t start getting out of the way, the American restaurant industry will split and leave entrepreneurs and start-ups behind. American restaurants will consist only of high-end establishments like the ones Lagasse owns, fast food and chain restaurants, because no one else will be able to succeed.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Politics
KEYWORDS: bam; business; economy; emeril; obama
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To: Flick Lives

almost..see my #20


21 posted on 09/26/2014 1:07:54 PM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
American restaurants will consist only of high-end establishments like the ones Lagasse owns, fast food and chain restaurants, because no one else will be able to succeed.

This is parallels the destruction of the middle class. There will be the few elites, and then the unwashed masses. High-end restraints for the elites. Chain restraints for the masses.

22 posted on 09/26/2014 1:08:46 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Glad to hear another person speaking out. Leftists have done more to separate the rich and the poor than anyone else ever could. They make it so hard for a business to exist that only the large companies and very tiny with no overhead can exist.


23 posted on 09/26/2014 1:09:15 PM PDT by vpintheak (Keep calm and Fire for Effect!)
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To: tanknetter

Guy’s from New Orleans so I think he understands Kahhma.

“Bam!”


24 posted on 09/26/2014 1:09:40 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And the same is true across the land . . .

We just watched the local jeweler close across the street; the travel agency next door is now packing it up and calling quits. Both had been in business for say 40 years. Our downtown is become a ghost town.


25 posted on 09/26/2014 1:11:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Vendome

Hey may be in Nawluhnz, but IIRC, he’s originally a boston yankee.


26 posted on 09/26/2014 1:12:37 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: cport

My first thought.


27 posted on 09/26/2014 1:12:54 PM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He predicts that if the government doesn’t start getting out of the way, the American restaurant industry will split and leave entrepreneurs and start-ups behind.


That’s the plan. The problem is this: The Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. They are just playing “good cop, bad cop” with us. They are the enforcer for their handlers which are “big business”. And their common enemy is “small business”.

The reason is simple: Though we have a constitution that protects our rights, everyone that works for “big business” really has forfeited those rights - if they want to earn an income. I merely need to point out the fate of a certain pro football team after his phone call remarks were ILLEGALLY recorded and released - or a certain professional athlete who smacked his fiance in an elevator.

Small businessmen and the folks that work for them are too free. They can’t be controlled. The “establishment” wants them erradicated.


28 posted on 09/26/2014 1:13:30 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: driftdiver

Good. Then I hope he goes broke.


29 posted on 09/26/2014 1:13:34 PM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: driftdiver

Well then he has made his bed and now he’s got to get f—cked in it.


30 posted on 09/26/2014 1:14:36 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

wipe out all but the biggest businesses

workforce participation plummets (reject unemployment numbers as they’re inaccurate)

annual salaries plummet

people will then reach for welfare...

which means they’ll vote for dems under the threat of losing their increasingly needed welfare if the GOP wins


31 posted on 09/26/2014 1:18:33 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well as long as there is high end where our government officials and employees can spend out money that’s OK. We certainly can’t afford the prices. Vote them all out and shrink government and give it back to the people.


32 posted on 09/26/2014 1:19:34 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Heroic assumption: Obozo gives a damn about Americans.


33 posted on 09/26/2014 1:19:58 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His restaurants do not live up to the promise; I’ve had mediocre to poor meals at his outlets in Las Vegas, Bethlehem and New Orleans. That might be part of his problem also.


34 posted on 09/26/2014 1:22:20 PM PDT by Salvey
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To: Joe 6-pack

I think accusing a second-generation Portuguese of being a “yankee” of any kind is pretty close to fighting words.


35 posted on 09/26/2014 1:23:00 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Yeah, I think he is a Yankee...

Always hatted his “Bam!” Shows but, when he was discussing simple concepts on other shows he was very engaging and would hold my attention.


36 posted on 09/26/2014 1:23:04 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Obadiah

If he goes back to coke that may very well happen.


37 posted on 09/26/2014 1:24:32 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If it continues, then watch: you’re going to have high-end, and you’re going to have fast food, and you’re going to have chain restaurants.”


38 posted on 09/26/2014 1:25:33 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But.... Rut.... Obama’s so charming while he regulates and taxes everyone to death.


39 posted on 09/26/2014 1:26:29 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: Vendome
But he grew up in Rhode Island and is of Portuguese descent.
40 posted on 09/26/2014 1:28:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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