Posted on 07/27/2020 9:23:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Unfortunately many types of food are not suitable for takeout, like steaks and seafood - you can’t keep them hot enough.
Not if the forest fire is so hot it sterilizes the ground..nothing will grow there again
A local restaurant was closed this past weekend. The word was that you can’t get help if you cannot guarantee days/hours paid with shutdowns by the local dictator.
Everyone is in denial about this but the winner of the 2020 elections will have responsibility for rebuilding an economy that will need a lot of work. This is truly a turning point election for the nation. If the dems win then they will rebuild the economy as a straight up communist wasteland. If Trump wins we have hope of returning to the fantastic American economy of 2019. The choice is that stark. Nothing else matters, it's the economy, period. But, alas, nobody seems to be talking about that.
I've had both delivered. No problems.
You think 2020 was “interesting”? Just wait until 2021. It’ll blow your mind. I’m not kidding.
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I’m waiting for the aliens to show up looking for the “off-world vehicle” we stole from them.
Not just Fauci.
Note to all the Fight For 15 fans: Good luck finding a minimum wage job after all the Democratic pols who claim to be on your side get through gutting state and local economies.
Automation looks better than ever now. And your Dem pols are the reason why.
A lot of brides are going to have to learn to cook.
“I see the whole nation as the town of Radiator Springs (the movie, “Cars”) when the interstate arrived. The weak businesses failed immediately, and as time passed, more and more “solid” businesses failed until it was a shell of its former self and the current residents are basically just surviving.”
I grew up in the SW and my wife did in the MW.
We remember the “Radiator Springs” small towns in our areas when interstates opened with no exits and railroads stopped sending freight trains and passenger trains to those towns.
A friend joked that only the Greyhound buses stopped in those dying towns and that was to only pick up people leaving the towns they had grown up in.
Restaurants bleed out. 1 in 5 fail every year. It’s a crap business to be in. But people keep entering it.
So, this is how all restaurants became Taco Bell...
In my neck of the Upstate NY woods I’m hearing noises that the minority of restaurants that have reopened might not ever go back to eat-in dining. Many are thinking of going just with take out and delivery since customers seem cool with that.
Which means while cooks, dishwashers, and delivery people will have a gig, lots of servers won’t.
So it’s not just about how many restaurants come back. It’ll be how about people those that do will still be employing.
One of my favorite movies. I have said for years this film predicted our future.
I agree entirely. It was a precarious model before, so it's a good time to make adjustments. Most of us can make better food at home for a lot less money, and so go to restaurants for a few reasons: Socializing (including dates, etc), ambience/getting out of the usual environs, and sometimes for convenience. The restaurant industry needs to take these things into consideration, and also do things that people will pay more money for - thus increasing restaurants' margins and making them more viable.
I have become an awesome copycat cook. We will be eating out a lot less even after this is over.
If I’m not alone, something else the minimum-wage crowd can blame their do-called supporters for.
“...In my area many restaurants stayed open with curbside pickup. ...”
Ditto here. So far all the places we usually eat at are still open, mostly with curbside during the dark days.
Half chains and the rest mom and pops.
Have heard from friends in town that a number of others are closed for good.
“I gave them one star because after I sat down they never did come to my table. HELLO! Such rudeness!”
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