Posted on 03/11/2020 9:08:37 AM PDT by aimhigh
“Today is worse than yesterday and yesterday was worse than the day before,” said Tamara Murphy, co-owner and executive chef at Terra Plata, a farm to table Mediterranean restaurant in Seattle.
“Today is worse than yesterday and yesterday was worse than the day before,” said Tamara Murphy, co-owner and executive chef at Terra Plata, a farm to table Mediterranean restaurant in Seattle. With thousands of people working from home and others trying to avoid public spaces due to coronavirus concerns, restaurants are seeing empty dining rooms.
“This is not anything that we’ve ever seen before, and I have seen a lot,” Murphy said. “I’ve been in Seattle for 30 years. I’ve seen the dot-com crash, I’ve seen 9/11, I’ve been through two recessions; I have not ever seen anything quite like this. The hemorrhaging is so deep and so fast, that’s what’s truly terrifying. The trickle down is just incredible.”
On Tuesday, Seattle restaurants Local 360 and Arriba Cantina announced that they are permanently closing due to coronavirus. Davis Family Restaurant Group owners Kevin and Terresa Davis are temporarily closing all six of their restaurants including Steelhead Diner in Pike Place. And Taylor Hoang, co-owner of the Pho Cyclo Cafes and 10 restaurants in SeaTac Airport, said they decided to close their Redmond Vietnamese restaurant when they were down to eight diners a day.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
“Two die in the streets and Trump is to blame.” ... headline from 2021.
WOW! Between that and the new minimum wage............
They’re not going to make $15/hr from home?
This past Monday, Stanford University cancelled classes for a couple of weeks. My son works at the Starbucks on campus while he is in school. They promptly cut all the shifts to skeleton and he didn’t go to work yesterday. They are trying to reduce everybody’s hours rather than lay people off.
Can we avoid a huge recession? I think it’s doubtful.
As the Coasts go into a Depression, they should remember that it was the Democrats and their media that brought this on. An illness that has killed fewer than 50 Americans would never have caused this collapse, but politics mattered more to the Trump-haters than the economy.
Now taxpayers in sane states will be asked to pay off the losses to businesses caused by the Democrat resisters. Vote “no” on that bailout, GOP. Look at the 2016 electoral map and ask yourself if the coasts deserve a bailout in this Democrat-created mess.
RE: Seattle restaurants are closing, cutting staff in the wake of coronavirus
The minimum wage only exacerbated their problems.
Wait until the mass layoffs take place all over the country. You think you’ve seen panic now? When the smoke clears and Corona Virus is a distant memory, but many, many people are out of work without insurance, and their homes being foreclosed, Trump is going to be out on his ass so fast in November it will make your head spin.
A perfectly executed plan by the globalists that really run things.
They’re not going to make $15/hr from home?
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Yeppers. My take on this is that these morons are already broke and are conveniently using the Covid-19 as an excuse.
Excellent points.
If so, America is basically over as we have known it.
$15/hr. minimum wage, no hours scheduled.
If the liberals want to tank the economy, there isn’t much that can be done to stop them.
Aren’t they going to have to RAISE their minimum wage, to offset the loss of their “living wages”?
https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/53
Yep, $15 an hour, done them in.
There are plenty of liberals in this country *willing* to lose their jobs if it means Trump would not won re-election this November. Their hatred runs that deep. And if they can accomplish that, there is nothing to stop them form doing whatever they want when they re-take the White House.
Tanking the economy is not a new tactic by the left. Obama was elected with a “crisis” in the economy. The virus is the dream of the left. Let that sink in. What a disgusting world we live in when it comes to the left.
Depends on how long it lasts.
I’ve said for the last two weeks that it is not the China virus that is dangerous. It’s our response to it.
I think that is possible, but I’m not sure it will work. We’ll see.
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