Posted on 01/10/2019 3:40:16 PM PST by lowbridge
Boston knows how to handle this. They will keep raising taxes and costs on the remaining businesses until the business community shoulders its fair share of the costs abandoned by the stores and restaurants that are bankrupted.
Note: I'll miss Durgin Park. I ate there last year out of nostalgia, and it was still as good as I remembered. Good food with a fun atmosphere is usually much better than a franchise.
Indian pudding. Is that a set up for an Elizabeth Warren joke?
Boston and surrounding vacinity used to have THE best food in the country, and cheap to reasonable in pricing.
It’s very common to walk into a place that looks rather ratty like the photo above, only to find fantastic food. And plenty of it, too.
I’m going to fantasize that the food quality went down hill, and that the service quality took a dive as well. The public is just so forgiving when a place that was excellent fails to live up to its reputation.
If good help isn’t worth paying in your eyes, then you, as restaraunt owner become the looser.
That help is going to tell everyone and his/her brother the nasty shortcuts and spoiled food you’ve been serving, and as word gets around, your customers are going to dwindle.
Go up on your prices as your food quality declunes and you have a sure recipe for failure.
Course, a lot of owners deny their poor quality even as they scrape the mold off the cottage cheese, while mixing the rotten chicken in with the fresh. And then they blame it all on the help.
I’m sure the left will just rack it up to the owner’s greed and unwillingness to operate at a loss for the greater good.
I had breakfast at a place on Charles River Plaza long, long ago.
Unfortunately, they seemed to have friend their hash browns in oil they used for fish.
I’m sure that place is long gone.
FRIED
lol
“One blogger for Minnesota Public Radio, Bob Collins, blamed the closing on mismanagement and “disloyalty” of the business toward workers.”
Bob is a dangerous idiot.
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Many RINOs among them too.
““New England staples, such as chowder, shepherd’s pie, prime rib, pot roast, and Boston cream pie.”
Not exactly Millennial and Gen-X staples.”
Yeah, no kale or quinoa
I was asking myself the same thing. Sounds more like a stale menu, a run down establishment, waiters and waitresses and milking the historic value are the root causes rather than a 9% wage hike. The owners chose to not invest in their business. Operating for 200 years doesn’t guarantee you will be around another 200.
Yes, their competitors are dealing with the very same wage situation.
If you experience a decrease in sales, whatever the reason, you need to cut costs. Minimum wage increase made that impossible. Conversely, the increased wage costs, $11 is too high, may have caused him to raise prices, which led to the sales drop off in the first place.
Are his competitors still in business?
Are they required be meet the same wage standards?
Not at all. The Indian pudding was on their desert menu one they were famous for.
Sometimes a decrease in sales means you need to invest more for the future. Cutting cost often hastens your demise. Cut costs and quality and service suffers leading to further declines in sales and more cost cuts. That’s a fools errand.
Successful cajor corporations decades ago learned to increase R&D spending in recessions.
He laid all that out for you in article.
Sometimes. And sometimes it dont. We are talking about making food in an old building.
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