Posted on 01/10/2019 3:40:16 PM PST by lowbridge
Durgin-Park, a renowned Boston restaurant, has been around for a long time. It opened in 1827, when Massachusetts’ own John Quincy Adams was president of the United States.
Phil Klein of the Washington Examiner wrote: “The restaurant, located in Boston’s Faneuil Hall, was an institution and tourist attraction, serving New England staples, such as chowder, shepherd’s pie, prime rib, pot roast, and Boston cream pie.”
But now, after nearly two centuries, it’s closing. Why?
The owner says it’s due in part to a recently passed law that raised the minimum wage from $11 to $12 an hour on Jan. 1, and will further increase it to $15 by 2024.
The $15 minimum wage has been a particular target for the national “Fight for $15” movement.
The Boston Business Journal reported:
"According to Ark Restaurants CEO Michael Weinstein, the restaurant wasn’t profitable anymore. He says business has been down about 30 percent over the last five years.
Weinstein says the dwindling head count, increase in minimum wage and health care costs, the expensive upkeep of an old building, and competition from the growing Seaport District were all factors in the restaurant’s downfall."
One blogger for Minnesota Public Radio, Bob Collins, blamed the closing on mismanagement and “disloyalty” of the business toward workers—as though closing was somehow an act of revenge on the part of the owners, rather than bending to economic reality.
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Only the left didn’t believe that this would happen.
The more these big cities rot the better as far as I’m concerned.
Sad. Ate there as a tourist 25 years ago. Prime rib & a Sam Adams. Not bad.
Not only Durggin Park. Watch Boston rapidly go downhill as the minimum wage increases and taxes become an even larger burden on businesses
“He says business has been down about 30 percent over the last five years.”
How did a newly increased minimum wage decrease his business by 30% over the last five years?
Not only Durgin-Park. Watch Boston rapidly go downhill as the minimum wage increases and taxes become an even larger burden on businesses
I used to love going to Durgin Park when I was at MIT many decades ago. Loved the huge strawberry shortcake.
Satisfied, leftist scum? Yet one more thriving successful business, which employed locals, goes under because of your damnable communists practices. May every Democrat rot in hell for all eternity. Democrats are a bane on civilization. They should all be put in front of a firing squad - down to the last man.
This is going on all over Upstate NY....
Until they try to stick you with the bill...
Just what theDemocrats wanted.
I will say that this restaurant overcame my aversion to winter squash. I went there many, many years go and acorn squash was the side dish - like it or not.
I will confess that the offering did confirm my innate belief that my mother was not the best of cooks, though I loved her dearly. And I did enjoy the squash.
If it is the one in Feunil Hall, I’m not sure the minimum wage is a major factor. Foot traffic should be off the charts. I’d look to other expenses.
He said that was one reason, not that it was connected to the wage reason
Durgin Park was well known for its large portions of satisfactory (but not great) comfort food and surly, octogenarian waitresses. The place started sliding when they replaced the grandmothers with their chirpy granddaughters.
Looks pretty crappy to me....
Food is not bad, but they rush you like hell.
“New England staples, such as chowder, shepherd’s pie, prime rib, pot roast, and Boston cream pie.””
Not exactly Millennial and Gen-X staples.
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