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hmmm... it would be interesting to know the correlation between this kind of government interference in the legal operation of business and the climbing unemployment rates....

Do you think it's just labor costs and unions that are driving business to move their manufacturing operations overseas? We've had labor costs and the unions for a century, we've had the increasingly strangulating government regulation for the past 30 years (especially the past 15).

Exactly my point...ever-increasing government regulations are killing small businesses.

In this current example, the owner of the now closed restaurant said that the bar (alcohol) business helped cover the margins on the food. In a chain restaurant (i.e. Applebee's, Chili's, Rio Bravo, etc.), this may also be true, BUT...they won't shut down. They have more negotiating power with their respective vendors. They have more flexibility in the food choices they offer their customers. In other words, "big business" (aka the enemy of the left) ultimately thrives as a result of regulatory interference. They may have a short-term decrease, but the elimination of competition works to the benefit of these larger companies.