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Chicago Restaurants Blame COVID For $100 Minimum Per Person Just To Get A Table
Zubo Brothers ^ | 7-4-2021

Posted on 07/04/2021 8:23:56 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 07/04/2021 8:23:56 PM PDT by blam
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2 posted on 07/04/2021 8:24:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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3 posted on 07/04/2021 8:25:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Why is this an outrage? Don’t like it? Don’t eat there.


4 posted on 07/04/2021 8:26:33 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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That’s what the BLM thugs pay? Outrageous.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 8:28:01 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I don’t and I won’t.


6 posted on 07/04/2021 8:28:33 PM PDT by sport
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Maitre D’ : I appreciate your understanding.

Ferris: Don’t think twice. It’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.


7 posted on 07/04/2021 8:30:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“This is insanity, driving local public outrage and vows to avoid these establishments: strictly enforced policy of a $100 minimum for each person to dine.”

sounds like a self-correcting problem to me ...


8 posted on 07/04/2021 8:37:22 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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That’s easy to fix - don’t go there.


9 posted on 07/04/2021 8:39:04 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Chicago has a rich tradition of cinematic unruly restaurant customers, between Jake and Elwood, and Ferris/Abe Froman.

But Jack Nicholson asking for toast in Five Easy Pieces was not in Chicago.

10 posted on 07/04/2021 8:40:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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One man interviewed in the report, Howard Tolsky, booked a dinner online for a well-known downtown steak restaurant and was required to pay a minimum of $300 for three total people just to ensure a table there.

“I figured, well, we’re not going to spend $300,” Tolsky said. “We might spend $250. But I don’t want to spend $300 dollars on a meal that costs $250.” He went elsewhere on that basis, telling CBS-2 that “Now is the time for them to attract customers and not detract them.”


If it’s the steak restaurant I’m thinking it is....$300.00 would be spent, EASILY, for 3 people....if they’re having drinks, appetizers, dinner, sides and desserts.

We’ll see how this works out. An odd opening ‘plan’, for sure.


11 posted on 07/04/2021 8:44:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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My observation is that since Covid restaurants and hotels are not up to past standards. Frankly, it cost more and is disappointing. This will impact them negatively in the long run but isn’t that what the deep state wants?!


12 posted on 07/04/2021 8:52:57 PM PDT by pke
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Knowing a bit about high-end dining in Chicago, I’d pay that $100 minimum. Ir’a not a surcharge, it’s a minimum. A bottle of good French wine, a great dinner, a crepe suzette, and there you go. Great excuse to have the yum dessert you never have because of the calories.


13 posted on 07/04/2021 9:07:25 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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Everything is either global warming’s fault or covid’s fault.


14 posted on 07/04/2021 9:12:10 PM PDT by Trillian
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$100 per person? I eat out often. Average bill around $20 per person including the tip. I won’t be patronizing those places.


15 posted on 07/04/2021 9:16:46 PM PDT by Myrddin
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I had a ham sandwich and some salad for my dinner.

It probably cost about $1 in total.


16 posted on 07/04/2021 9:17:34 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“Why is this an outrage? Don’t like it? Don’t eat there.”

Thanks for the suggestion; stay in New Orleans - you would be an
unpleasant dining companion.


17 posted on 07/04/2021 9:44:33 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
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Thats $100 dollars per person, that results in that person getting nothing worthwhile for that $100.

It’s a dam racket under the guise of “health”.


18 posted on 07/04/2021 9:55:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Denny’s in Eugene.


19 posted on 07/04/2021 10:51:16 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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For $100, I could eat a great steak dinner every night for week, at home, cooked just the way I like it and not have some racist spit on my food because I’m White.


20 posted on 07/04/2021 11:52:38 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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