Posted on 01/11/2020 9:29:49 PM PST by Beave Meister
More than 400 restaurants in San Francisco shut their doors in 2019, raising concern for many in the city known for its top-notch cuisine. NBC Bay Area's Sonja Shin reports.
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This sums up why it was so easy for us to leave Seattle for rural KY. We are over the restaurant thing. It’s one of those things that always seems like a good idea until you think about the cost, the hassle, the risk of disease (e.g. various forms of hepititis) and, of equal importance, the quality of the food, both in taste and nutrition, relative to what you can produce at home.
It’s one of those things that is way over rated, kinda like concerts.
I'm surprised the Demagogic Party a-holes ru[i]n[n]ing California didn't make it illegal to close a restaurant. Give 'em time. Say, are you gonna use both those napkins for your takeout? I need to wipe my butt.
[ More Than 400 San Francisco Restaurants Close in 2019 ]
Wow. That’s shocking.
Maybe they need to gay it up some more.
Hope they keep voting Democrat. It’s working, obviously.
San Francisco is the most depressing city in America. The come-latelys might not think so. They may be enchanted by the steep streets up Nob and Russian and Telegraph, by the sea mystery of the Bridge over to redwood country on a foggy night, by the urban compartmentalization of Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, by the smartness of the women and the city's iron clutch on culture. It might look just fine to the new ones.But there are too many of us who used to love her. She was like a wild classy kook of a gal, one of those rain-walkers, laughing gray eyes, tousle of dark hair -- sea misty, a lithe and lively lady, who could laugh at you or with you, and at herself when needs be. A sayer of strange and lovely things. A girl to be in love with, with love like a heady magic.
But she had lost it, boy. She used to give it away, and now she sells it to the tourists. She imitates herself. Her figure has thickened. The things she says now are mechanical and memorized. She overcharges for cynical services.
Maybe if you are from Dayton or Amarillo or Wheeling or Scranton or Camden she can look like magic to you because you have not had a chance to see what a city can be. This one had her chance to go straight and she lost it somehow, and it has been downhill for her ever since. That's why she is so depressing to those of us who knew her when. We all know what she could have been, and we all know the lousy choice she made. She has driven away the ones who loved her best. A few keep trying. Herb Caen. A few others. But the love words have a hollow tone these days.
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Wow. That quote while about SF,
could very well describe New Orleans today as well. The reasons are different of course but similar in
that the sjws & libs have destroyed with their policies & laws they enact.
Sad really; seeing so many once fret
cities die under liberal rule.
Louisiana is a solid red state though
NOLA is solid blue.
That explains some things.
” the $15.00 minimum wage”
In your dreams. Since July 1 of last year it has been $15.59.
To stop the gentrification and influx of entrepreneurs, a capitalist idea that works and the constant complaining of no affordable housing the gov has decided to unleash the living dead on them to chase them away. Problem is these same liberal progressive running are bringing their mental disorder with them and starting it all over in your town
We go to NOLA usually once a year in March, after Mardi Gras, and before it gets too hot. We love the food, and to us, it’s worth the hassle.
We stay in a hotel across the street from One Shell Square, which used to be HQ for Shell’s deepwater operations, and much of their other stuff. Just about all gone to Houston now.
Trial lawyers and politicians have successfully driven off hundreds of thousands of upper middle class professionals in the energy industry, and it was done on purpose. The only thing that’s grown here in the past 30 years is government. That’s why John Bel Edwards was re-elected this fall.
So where do all of those people now eat?
As long as corrupt Republicans keeping push almost unlimited LEGAL immigration I will be in favor of the minimum wage.
If you ever wanted to know why the GOP will always be a struggling boutique party looking out only for the interests of cheap labor just read these threads trashing the minimum wage.
Limit the height of buildings and you’re messing with capitalism. Your city will slowly decay.
And if gas stoves will become illegal, forget the restaurant trade. You can’t cook on an electric stove.
Noticed the NBC report didn’t mention wages or poop but did mention order out services and the fact that tech companies often have food and wine available round the clock at their offices. It did mention overall costs nicely burying the wage issue. Those may be factors as well but as usual the media shapes their narrative by omitting the non PC. Also no mention of how many restaurants have opened during the last year which might change the outlook as well.
Liberals ruin everything!
But then my brother, who worked in that industry for most of his career, said that 90% of NEW restaurants dont last a year because the people who buy them don’t understand that THEY are not guaranteed success (even being viable), and will have to work very hard (as in being the first in to work and the last to leave EVERY DAY).
So ‘closing their doors’ includes ‘change of ownership’ cases ??
Leftist hellholes are not exactly a smart place to have a business these days.
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I like dilbert joke. Will have to remember to whip that out on the next “climate statistician” I run into.
John D. recalls a time when San Francisco was “The City”. Then, class was exchanged for vulgarity. Service was replaced by rip-off. Civic pride by hip. Maturity by adolescence. Montgomery Street by North Beach. Army Street mixed neighborhood by Gaytown USA. A. Sabella’s for Joe DiMaggio’s. Gone: The City of Paris, the Cliff House, Coffee Dan’s. Ahg, the horror.
One can support minimum wages but realize it doesn’t always work for all industries. Waiters always earned far, far more in tips than from minimum wage. To the extent you put restaurants out of business you are denying more people those jobs. Plus as the cost of meals go up to pay for the minimum wage, less people go to restaurants, again destroying more jobs.
Same goes for many small businesses just starting up. They can’t afford minimum wages. You cut off job creation. Also, minimum wages of knocked out a lot of jobs that teenagers used to take. Low paying jobs for teens is a great learning experience. In the old days I worked delivering newspapers and love it and greatly enriched my life.
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