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More Than 400 San Francisco Restaurants Close in 2019
YouTube ^ | 12/31/2019

Posted on 01/11/2020 9:29:49 PM PST by Beave Meister

More than 400 restaurants in San Francisco shut their doors in 2019, raising concern for many in the city known for its top-notch cuisine. NBC Bay Area's Sonja Shin reports.

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To: Ken H

If you had a time machine and could go back to the 1950s and the early 1960s (before the hippies, then the criminals, then the gays, then the homeless took it over) it was an amazing city.

When you see isolated ancient ruins and no-one remembers the great civilization that lived there and wondered how this could be—you now know what happened— the “progressive” zombies destroyed the place.


41 posted on 01/12/2020 5:37:12 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: TChad

San Francisco was once a Republican bastion in California


42 posted on 01/12/2020 5:38:01 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Beave Meister
It is obvious the $15 minimum wage was a failure. The demonrats need to raise it to $20 and if that doesn't work, they should move to $25.

43 posted on 01/12/2020 5:42:59 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Beave Meister

Back in the mid ‘90s the statistic in Atlanta was out of 500 eating establishments opened, 495 would close within a year. Tough business. And there isn’t nearly as much poop on the sidewalk here.


44 posted on 01/12/2020 5:48:29 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: abb

Yes I know, I’m from NOLA.
You are right about the anti-business attitude in LA government & it’s whores...i mean trial lawyers.
And not planning/reacting to the oil industry bust in the early 80s helpe kill it.
Oh well; big party this weekend.
National title game tomorrow night.
GEAUX TIGERS!!


45 posted on 01/12/2020 6:03:15 AM PST by DeplorableGirl
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To: KarlInOhio

“How many restaurants are there in San Francisco? What has been the historic shutdown rate in SF and in other cities?”

Excellent questions. Perspective is required in every news story that you read.


46 posted on 01/12/2020 6:34:05 AM PST by suthener
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To: Beave Meister

It’s hard to enjoy your meal when somebody’s stepped in a pile of human crap outside the restaurant, tracked it inside, walked by your table...and deposited said crap on the floor at your feet.


47 posted on 01/12/2020 6:35:56 AM PST by moovova
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To: Secret Agent Man
I consider the $15/hr wage mandate a government tax.

It is exactly that. Workers that retain their jobs at the higher minimum wage will feel beholden to the city government. Those that lose those jobs will likely leave the city. Of course there's a third category of worker that doesn't get much Press... the workers that still have jobs but get their hours slashed. They are very, very unhappy.

48 posted on 01/12/2020 6:42:26 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: Lisbon1940

Long Island, NY is a city?


49 posted on 01/12/2020 6:43:11 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: cuban leaf
we take the bus to the train station in oakland to catch the train to San Francisco. But the crowd was so “troubling’ at that station that after a half hour there, we took the surface transportation back to the airport and caught the next flight back to Seattle.

It literally felt like one of those “post apocalyptic” movie sets.

It's a shame that the actor Tom Hanks, who is from Oakland, never gets the message. I've seen a few interviews where he gets all nostalgic about Oakland. Just another reason not to trust a liberal.

50 posted on 01/12/2020 6:48:10 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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To: TChad

Wow, what a description. How apt.


51 posted on 01/12/2020 6:48:21 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

If we didn’t have a minimum wage, I bet some companies would give 50 cents an hour. You know that’s true. Heck they bulk at 8 bucks. You know they’d try to go as low as they could.


52 posted on 01/12/2020 7:24:03 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah. But those same leftard aholes are moving to your red state. You know these pukes once they destroy their cities with their leftard cap they move on like the plague..


53 posted on 01/12/2020 7:39:29 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: DeplorableGirl

>>>Louisiana is a solid red state though<<<

I thought so until they Reelected the Rat Governor. Oh well...


54 posted on 01/12/2020 7:46:22 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Beave Meister

Poop town?

Turd by the Bay?


55 posted on 01/12/2020 8:13:23 AM PST by GOPJ (Glacier National Park removes signs warning glaciers will be gone by 2020 (ten year old sign))
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To: napscoordinator

And you know that minimum wage jobs are initial entry jobs, starter jobs, that were never made to support a family on.

You also know that teens aren’t told by their parents to work any ore for their spending money.


56 posted on 01/12/2020 12:31:18 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beave Meister

I wonder how their Chinatown is doing.


57 posted on 01/12/2020 12:38:56 PM PST by Exit148
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To: Bookshelf

I see you know both John D. and the real San Francisco that I missed by arriving too late (1967). Lucky you.


58 posted on 01/12/2020 8:20:26 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: nwrep
San Francisco was once a Republican bastion in California.

San Francisco's last Republican mayor served from 1956-64.

59 posted on 01/12/2020 8:25:08 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: elbook
I recall from Econ class that industries tend to move toward a given rate of return. Two exceptions (at that time) were airlines and the restaurant industry.

So I assume a given amount of turnover. I also assume that raising costs in the way an increase minimum wage does will put businesses on the margin out of business.

60 posted on 01/13/2020 8:57:23 AM PST by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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