Pandemic chickens, crime chickens, election chickens and dead liberty chickens are coming home for the nearsighted and cynical government and media who let them fly.
"Yglesias noted that 110,000 restaurants shuttered during the pandemic. He correctly concluded that 'we underestimated ourselves.' I suppose that might be modified to 'the government underestimated us.'"
I'm looking forward to digging into this number, as I'm curious (as commented on some of David's posts) whether number of restaurants open is a useful figure in the age of ghost kitchens that cater to folks ordering-in from home. From the couple of folks that own restaurants in my neighborhood, they seem to be doing okay hiring servers - it's the cooks that are hard to recruit. And looking at it from a cook's perspective, I can see how one could make more stable money working in a ghost kitchen in an assembly-line fashion and not dealing with the headaches that come with having actual people on-premises (asking for substitutions, sending food back, splitting tips with the servers, etc.).
"The Los Angeles-based startup CloudKitchens operates ghost kitchens across 17 different U.S. cities. Ghost kitchens are facilities with several kitchens rented by restaurants to prepare food that’s delivered by third-party apps like Uber Eats and GrubHub."
"The company has five ghost kitchens in Chicago. One of those facilities, a North Center building on 4131 N. Rockwell St., has attracted criticism for traffic congestion, parking problems and other issues in this mostly residential area, according to 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin."
In my own Chicago neighborhood, most of the restaurants seem to be back (if at reduced hours) and the few that left were because the Depression-era building they shared was being demolished and a 120-unit apartment complex is being constructed. We actually have more restaurants open now (or opening soon) as entrepreneurs are finally getting around to filling some of the new retail space that's opened up in the past five years with new mid-rise construction.
I think anyone thinking that local economies will come back the exact same way they entered the pandemic is setting themselves up for disappointment, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we end up worse overall economically.
The cdc has not been primarily concerned with science since the pandemic broke out. This has something to do with the fact they a have some culpability for it but also because their leadership owes it's livelihood to the swamp and it's inhabitants. Don't see a way around this until and unless the swamp is drained.
"Yglesias noted that 110,000 restaurants shuttered during the pandemic. He correctly concluded that 'we underestimated ourselves.' I suppose that might be modified to 'the government underestimated us.'"
I'm looking forward to digging into this number, as I'm curious (as commented on some of David's posts) whether number of restaurants open is a useful figure in the age of ghost kitchens that cater to folks ordering-in from home. From the couple of folks that own restaurants in my neighborhood, they seem to be doing okay hiring servers - it's the cooks that are hard to recruit. And looking at it from a cook's perspective, I can see how one could make more stable money working in a ghost kitchen in an assembly-line fashion and not dealing with the headaches that come with having actual people on-premises (asking for substitutions, sending food back, splitting tips with the servers, etc.).
"The Los Angeles-based startup CloudKitchens operates ghost kitchens across 17 different U.S. cities. Ghost kitchens are facilities with several kitchens rented by restaurants to prepare food that’s delivered by third-party apps like Uber Eats and GrubHub."
"The company has five ghost kitchens in Chicago. One of those facilities, a North Center building on 4131 N. Rockwell St., has attracted criticism for traffic congestion, parking problems and other issues in this mostly residential area, according to 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin."
In my own Chicago neighborhood, most of the restaurants seem to be back (if at reduced hours) and the few that left were because the Depression-era building they shared was being demolished and a 120-unit apartment complex is being constructed. We actually have more restaurants open now (or opening soon) as entrepreneurs are finally getting around to filling some of the new retail space that's opened up in the past five years with new mid-rise construction.
I think anyone thinking that local economies will come back the exact same way they entered the pandemic is setting themselves up for disappointment, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we end up worse overall economically.
[1] https://news.wttw.com/2021/03/17/ghost-kitchen-thrives-during-pandemic-disturbs-some-north-side-neighbors
The cdc has not been primarily concerned with science since the pandemic broke out. This has something to do with the fact they a have some culpability for it but also because their leadership owes it's livelihood to the swamp and it's inhabitants. Don't see a way around this until and unless the swamp is drained.