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Not in my area. Restaurants are doing okay. The only ones that have had trouble are high priced ones ($50 per meal per person types). They are lowering their prices to accomodate the change in the economy.

They are opening up 5 more moderate restaurants in a few months in my area.

Not in my area. Restaurants are doing okay. The only ones that have had trouble are high priced ones ($50 per meal per person types). They are lowering their prices to accomodate the change in the economy. They are opening up 5 more moderate restaurants in a few months in my area.

Not calling you a liar, but I seriously doubt you know the histories of all the restaurants in your area. I'm very active in the industry, and I don't know them all. However, I DO know the restaurants that were hurt most were the small neighborhood mom & pop places where locals hung out. Those upscale and "moderate" restaurants are, for the most part, chains which can weather the damage done by bans until the small places go under and a certain percentage of their previous customers find other places to go. Bigger and slicker is not always better, and all you have to do is ask those hardworking, taxpaying business people who have lost their life savings and their livelihoods trying to partake of the American Dream. Most folks who think like you do don't give a fig about them, tho, as long as you're happy.

The only ones that have had trouble are high priced ones ($50 per meal per person types). They are lowering their prices to accomodate the change in the economy.

Thats funny, in my town everybody are increasing prices, an attempt to make up for lack of customers.