Posted on 02/23/2017 7:29:40 AM PST by EXCH54FE
President Trump's promise of increased enforcement of immigration laws is already having an effect. Mexican restaurants are experiencing a downturn of business.
Cesar Rodriguez, who runs a tamale restaurant on Staten Island with his mother, says customers are staying away. On a good Sunday, the Staten Island tamale restaurant run by Cesar Rodriguez and his mother makes $3,000. Since the start of the year, it has averaged only $1,500, and this past Sunday only $700.
Mr. Rodriguez, who was brought to New York when he was 13 and has temporary protection from deportation under an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, said he thought undocumented residents were saving their money in case they were detained. They may also be reluctant to leave the house for fear of immigration agents stalking outside.
They are listening to fake news, he said. Even if its not true, they are afraid.
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How did this illegal alien get a business license to open a restaurant ???
Well, it IS NY!!
YOU try to obtain a biz license and you’ll likely be turned away for some pithy reason....but....let the illegal have all of the biz licenses they want.
I crack up when I see the commercial for NY state....’Come to NY, where we have the lowest tax rates in decades.....’
Yeah, right...but still one of the HIGHEST in the country???
“Mr. Rodriguez, who was brought to New York when he was 13 and has temporary protection from deportation under an Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA”
Send him home. He can open a restaurant there.
I have a friend who drove a milk truck delivering to stores and restaurants.
One day I mentioned that I was taking the wife out to dinner and named the restaurant I was taking her to.
He looked at me and shook his head.
I named another and again he shook his head.
Another restaurant, another head shake.
On the fifth restaurant he finally nodded.
He ended up giving me the name of one other restaurant he would eat at.
His last words were “eat anywhere you want but DON’T think about what goes on in the kitchen”.
What was surprising was that all the restaurants he shook off were pretty upscale places that were frequented by the local royalty.
So it’s Solicitaion?
I used to work for register company, i rarely ate at any of restaurants where I serviced equipment. I saw what went on in kitchens
Illegals should be required to wear armbands. If found in public without the armband instant deportation. Yeah I said that.
For a short time. Not for long.
Just a trip home for them, and a jail term in a tent in AZ if they return.
...And his mama...
A friend of mine does food inspections in Albuquerque - home to hundreds of Mexican restaurants.
I asked what restaurants were the worst offenders. He sited several Chinese/Japanese restaurants.
“What, no Mexican restaurants?”
“Well, of course they are horrible. We site them, but nothing ever really happens.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, the owners always know somebody in the city government, or are related to somebody in the city government, so they are never shut down. After a while we stop inspecting. Instead we focus on restaurants that, if they are a hazard to the public health, we can actually do something to stop them.”
“Are you saying that Mexican restaurants in Albuquerque aren’t inspected?”
“Well, I wouldn’t eat in one.”
My second wife was a waitress most of her life. She always made good tips because she loved to smile and hustled. She constantly had restaurant recruiters trying to get her to work for their particular restaurant.
Once she went to work at an upscale restaurant in Richmond, VA but quit after three days.
The money was great but the goings on in the kitchen were terrible.
A cook dropped a cooked steak on the floor, brushed it off and put it on a plate for her customer.
She refused to serve it, had to get the manager to make the cook fix another steak.
Manager didn’t see what the big deal was.
She served that customer and quit.
She and I didn’t eat out very often.
In Sylva, not Cullowhee, right?
In the Mid 70’s the only mexican restaurant along I-40 between Hickory and Knoxville and then north to Johnson City and South to Greenville SC was in Asheville.
It was called Poncho’s and was located on Tunnel Road about 1/4 mile north of where I-240 crosses.
I was in Cullowhee in the early 80’s and a mex place opened up but quickly closed—California hippies without a business sense.
Meant #74 for you.
I read of a nurse in Texas laugh that one time when a Migra-green van was illegally parked by the ER entrance, hardly any Mexicans showed up. The interns started kidding that they would park a van like that there when they wanted an easy night.
My brother repairs industrial food equipment, he is the same way. Will not eat out at most restaurants he has worked in, says he has seen too much.
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