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[back during covid when the insanity was at the highest level, I did sort of predict this. I kept saying how many older and established business’s may just not reopen after covid. i.e. lets just retire now and not deal with the headaches. running a restaurant is hard enough — who needs the additional hassle of government intervention in my attempt at fulfilling the American dream!]

Retail crime has skyrocketed since criminal justice reform zeroed out prison sentences for many crimes. Call it the George Floyd era. Did you notice an increase in dining and dashing? I would expect it from the usual crime-prone demographic, but do wonder if it extended to your particular food niche.

And by crime-prone segment, I am referring to the subject of this White House polemic:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2022/05/09/expanding-economic-opportunity-for-formerly-incarcerated-persons/#:~:text=All%20told%2C%20as%20of%202010,rate%20from%201970%20to%202007.
[All told, as of 2010, nearly 1 in 3 Black men have felony convictions. These astronomical figures are largely due to the nearly four-fold increase in the incarceration rate from 1970 to 2007.]

And these are merely the ones with felony convictions. What about the felons who pled down to misdemeanors? What about the felons who got off on technicalities? And the ones who were never caught or charged for lack of evidence?

“And the ones who were never caught or charged for lack of evidence?”

what amazes me the most is that in places like Chicago that have football score wounded to kill ratios on a weekend basis (i.e. 23 shot 3 fatally in rash of violence over weekend) is that there are literally HUNDREDS of murderers walking the streets of America. I’m talking people who have killed another human being in cold blood. it’s kind of unfathomable come to think about it.