SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:44 am
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 7:56 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 6:33 pm
youthathletics wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 6:26 pm
Kismet wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 6:24 pm
Just saw a report tonight that perhaps as many as 40% of the restaurants in the five boroughs of NYC will likely never re-open.
Exactly why they should re open now.
No, there's little to no demand.
They are free to 'open' now. Pick-up, delivery, etc.
Those that adapted their business model to do so are surviving for now.
Though by the skin of their teeth.
But there's no way that people are going to be able to congregate densely for quite awhile. That's the brutal truth.
And the economics of dining with social distancing just don't add up. But some will try.
You literally can not get a table at most decent sit-down restaurants in Florida starting tomorrow. Stage 1, 25% capacity. Sold out.
And this is off-season.
You’re like a scab. When you have one you know you should leave it alone so the cut will heal faster, but sometimes you just can’t help yourself and have to scratch at it.
Please provide some links to your position on how Floridians are raring to dine out and have sold out restaurants. I just checked Jacksonville.com, Tampa.com, and Miami.com (re-directed to miamiherald.com), and found nothing on your proposed wild dash for dining tables. Of those web sites Jacksonville.com was the only one with a restaurant-specific story, and that was about how tentative restaurant owners are feeling with opening today.
I then google searched for topics like “Florida restaurant reservations”, Florida restaurant openings”, and “restaurants preparing for onslaught”. Nothing but articles explaining the rules for opening.
But I didn’t stop there. I went to Open Table. Plenty of available reservations at any of the few restaurants that are opening right away. And then I went to the high end that doesn’t use Open Table. Checked on the web sites of two of Florida’s most renowned restaurants - Joe’s Stone Crabs and Bern’s Steakhouse. Guess what? Take-out/pick-up only. THEY’RE NOT EVEN OPENING FOR DINE-IN!
So my guess is, once again, you’re full of it and you’re here just to stir things up. I’ll be happy to say I’m wrong if you can provide some back-up to your claim but like most times when your information is false and questioned you won’t respond. You’ll just lay in wait til you can throw some new BS up here so somebody digs at the scab.
Apparently this 'scab' occupies your head quite easily.
It sounds like you aren't happy that the restaurants in the normal parts of Florida are re-opening?
I don't recall your moniker; another lib Dem here? Surprise.
My 'source' might be a tad better than your online search engines; yesterday, I called two restaurant owner buddies of mine for a lunch AND dinner reservation for today. In chatting with them, they said they are completely sold out today and that yesterday, Sunday, was a day for the staff to spend cleaning and prepping for grand re-opening todays. I'm happy to support them and their servers, because unlike some cough-cough Democratic friends of mine, I don't have alligator hands when it comes to checks and tips...
How about this: can I send you the way-too-predictable '
the restaurants are too crowded and spreading Coronavirus' stories sure to be posted tomorrow or the day after? I could even send them to you today if I knew anyone at the Herald, as the stories were written the day after Ron announced the plan to ease restrictions; all the Herald needs now are the doctored photos showing cheek to jowl bar scenes. In any event, the restaurants in the honest-vote parts of the state will do great, and everyone is happy and excited.
BTW, Florida has not re-opened the only Democratic run counties in the state for obvious reasons.