Monday morning I stopped by one of my father’s favorite restaurants to order chicken parmesan. Unfortunately my father is very ill and just wants to taste it for the last time. So I stopped in around 10:30 am to order it but it was too early, understandably. I stated that I would return later and the sign on the door wasn’t up. When I returned at 4:30 they were closed.
As many, (if not all) of you know, I owned a bar/restaurant in west OC. Over the past year and a half it was extremely difficult to survive. The COVID and Unemployment crap has seriously destroyed any chance of survival. It pains me to drive by my old place and see the parking lot literally empty. Some places have already closed for the upcoming winter season. Bars and restaurants are closing anywhere from 8 pm to 10 pm. I was out the other night watching the evening football game and the bar/restaurant closed at half time with a decent crowd.
The madness needs to end. STOP the unemployment and tell your damn kids to get back to work. Some business owners I know are telling me they’ve been trying to get old employees to get off unemployment and come back to work but they’re clearing over $700.00 a week, why should they return.
The LIBERAL policies and handouts are KILLING the hard working business owners. Stop electing them. They want you to be a slave to their communist party.
I would love to work at a dinner. I might actually enjoy my job. The problems is that the average housing, transportation, food and everyday living expense is crazy now days. Hard to find a house in that area under $300k or $1500 a month for rent. $3.10 a gallon for gas. A cheap car is 30k. If you are making less than 50k you are barely surviving.
It is a very sad state of affairs out here. As long as we have people who will believe the BS that people like Biden, Pelosi, Fauci, etc. Dish out, its going to do nothing but get worse. People that are living off the government, shame on you, period. God put a brain in that head of yours to use, not to stay on the couch and play games. Sad, very sad what America is becoming.
DEMOCRATS.
They WANT a population dependent on welfare and unemployment money.
THEY are like a bad germ. Kill them all is the only way to survive.
Note to State’s Attorney — Jefferson said that (kill them). I know you think he was just a racist, but he was certainly much smarter than YOU will ever be. Go dig him up and arrest HIM. THEN, come for me.
Brings lots of help.
LMCLAIN – haven’t seen you in quite a while, where ya been?
Buying ammo.
It won’t be long when we return to the Little House on the Prairie days. Nothing electrical, outhouses and living off the land with many hands working just to eat and live.
I hope not, but at least I know how to function off the grid – most can’t.
It’s a favorite spot for us. Had breakfast there Sunday; all tables filled; steady traffic but they kept a steady, friendly pace taking and serving orders. Hope they find the added staff to get back to normal.
People around here are so obsessed with eating out they have been whining for a Cracker Barrell forever. I heard the McRib is coming back. OINK
I am a full time resident near the beach. I don’t do a lot of sit down restaurant meals but I do a lot of carryout meals. Towards the end of the Summer I was approached by a local Fenwick restaurant as I entered and informed that they do not permit walkin carryout patrons after 6PM (and muttered that there was a sign somewhere nearby stating this). So, I left and have not been back. Elsewhere (a carryout), I was rejected from another establishment multiple times with an on again off again availability from their kitchen for a phone in order. I haven’t been back there either.
Abi has the right attitude. If you can’t staff the service that you offer, change the service (i.e. hours) but don’t bitch and spit in the face of the people who try to patronize you. Take a deep breath and post a CLOSED sign if you can’t staff and stop wasting people’s time.
There’s so much bs in this sob story
1 – fact – old employees are not “clearing” 700 a week.
For that to happen, they would have had to have earned an income = to over 41,000 a year
They left the area when they lost their jobs and home.
Fact is, if you offered them their job back and they refused YOU are supposed to report it to unemployment.
– So you are lying.
2 – fact – employers think they are cute paying J1 workers poverty wages and
tout “locals will not work for what we pay J1.
Now all they do is whine that they can not find help and blame the workers instead of themselves.
3 – fact – people all season have acquired a job but can not find anywhere affordable to live.
What do you expect them to do?
This perfect storm, OC brought on themselves.
Enough with the whining and bs sob stories. Sorry its been a tough year, but that’s what you get when you diss the locals for decades. They stop applying.
The subsidy is over.
You’ve got no one to blame but yourselves and your greed