Posted on 12/17/2020 9:53:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
French Laundry, an upscale restaurant in Napa, California, where Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught violating his own coronavirus lockdown rules, got more than $2.4 million in loans from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.
The loans were reportedly used to retain the restaurant’s 160 employees
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OK I’ll chime in on this one
The French laundry is either the number one or number two restaurant in the entire United States of America like $500 a person up there in Napa and has been for many many decades
Why on G-da green earth would that restaurant need government subsidies?
The SWAMP is so wide and so deep and so endemic trying to even nip at the edges of it is a Herculean task
At $22,000 a meal, that’s only 1000 tables. Even if they only had 1 table seating a day, that’s just going to cover them for 14 weeks.
Absolutely disgusting. How many small businesses could have kept their people going with that money? The owners should be shamed out of the country.
Do they have to pay back the 2.4 million?
Struggling mom & pop restaurants are being forced to go out of business, but the rich and politicaly connected establishments get even richer. Why???
The French Laundry is the restaurant that a few years ago was burglarized and cleaned out of thousands of dollars of expensive wines. No doubt an inside job but never heard any sort of follow-up.
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