Posted on 01/31/2024 7:28:47 AM PST by eyeamok
Didn't BK go woke though ? That s a good way to cut your customer base by half.
We also lost a Hardees during the scamdemic..............
Of course not in L.A. - where everybody apparently can do whatever whenever as they see fit.....and you’re ‘expected’ to live along side of them like it or not.
In my area one local Burger King became a hot dog place.
I remember entering Mexico and getting the wonderful smell of fruit beverages.
I didn’t want to get what might come along with one though.
I live in Florida and drank well water for years, but I still didn’t want to take the risk.
How do the brick & mortar businesses in Tijuana survive?
How much do the sidewalk commericantes have to pay the Ciudad de Tijuana?
I visited LA about a dozen years ago and I remember signs that said “Legalize LA”.
Mexican taxation quotes:
VAT, called ‘Impuesto al Valor Agregado’ or ‘IVA’.
Standard Rate 16%
Excise duties....
Annual [Income] Tax Rates for Resident Individual vary from 1.92% to 35% (2023)
Employees have to contribute to social security according to varying rates and subject to various limits based on multiples of the UMA, up to a maximum of MXN 25,656 (2023).
Real property taxes are levied by the states at different rates.
https://santandertrade.com/en/portal/establish-overseas/mexico/tax-system
I hear they also buy EBT cards from bums for a fraction of the balance and use those to shop.
I remember Matamoros having a thriving brick & mortar sector two decades ago and Mexicans coming north for the day to shop in Brownsville.
“I hear they also buy EBT cards from bums for a fraction of the balance and use those to shop.”
The EBT card would have to be replaced or returned.
These people are smarter than our ‘representatives’ and senators in Congress and the hombre en la Casa Blanca.
Many of restaurants around here have shut down because they setup shop right in front of them. They pay NO TAXES, Get FREE Real Estate to run their business, no fees,license,...and WE PAY FOR THEIR SUPPLIES.
They started to enforce the laws about ten years ago because restaurants were angry they would have taco stands in their parking lots, taking their business. Of course the stands were not subject to the laws restaurants must obey, didn’t pay taxes so their food was much cheaper. A certain demographic of Los Angeles protested loudly so the city council backed off and reversed course allowing street venders.
Nobody in Mexico pays any attention whatsoever to those laws.
You pay the Mordida to the collectors and the politicos and it all goes away.
Diverse and Vibrating
Amazing how the city simply cannot find the zoning book that prohibits vagrancy, drug dealing, using the streets as a toilet, camping in public, etc. etc.
Can leprosy be transmitted through food vendors?
restaurants? seriously? the pics show popup tents in parking lots ... food looks like it was probably cooked in home kitchens and served out of coolers ... no doubt, following ZERO health laws, tax laws, minimum wage laws, or any other laws for that matter ... AND they compete with LEGIT restaurants that DO have to follow massive regulations, minimum wages and all the other BS ...
Here in Los Angeles and all over the San Fernando Valley there are thousands of these sidewalk restaurants.
Indeed everyone with a bottle of Kaopectate knows where it’s located.
Like most places here with sidewalk food sales.
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