Adam Reiner is concerned that restaurants are consolidating:
As a suburbanite at heart, however, I understand why so many diners embrace chain restaurants. Many of them serve really good food. The problem is that their growing presence is beginning to pose an existential threat to the independently-run restaurants so integral to our commercial centers.The pandemic has only crystallized that advantage, as big, sit-down restaurant brands like Olive Garden and Cheesecake Factory leverage scale to consolidate market share and aggressively expand their footprints.
History has shown that the unimpeded growth in chain restaurants often comes at the expense of our beloved family-run eateries. To wit: New York City—home to some of the best Chinese food in America—is about to welcome its first full-service P.F. Chang’s. I worry that this incursion, hastened by the pandemic, is reshaping how we define dining out in America.
Pierre Poilievre often talks about "gatekeepers", probably annoyingly so, but one of the reasons that large restaurants are able to consolidate their positions like this is that they were better positioned to afford retarded ever-changing Wuhan Flu lockdown rules due to their greater efficiencies.
You know all those "please remain 6-feet apart" signs with custom logos in the corner? It's much easier for them to afford those, and buy them in bulk to save extra money. That's just one of a trillion tiny examples that all start to add up to kill small independent businesses (even before government shock troops decided to take it up themselves as a hobby). Unsurprisingly, at least to those of us smarter than the "experts" when lockdowns and social distancing rules started happening, the end result is smaller restaurants shutting their doors forever.
Do you know one of these retarded assholes who didn't think that unintended consequences of these insane rules would involve harming small business? That's right, Viro Fascist Adam Reiner:
Requiring vaccinations isn’t an arbitrary rule like seating incomplete parties or forbidding menu substitutions. Aside from the obvious threat to human life, it wouldn’t be hospitable to leave any guests vulnerable because a gaggle of defiant, conspiracy-minded people perceive vaccination mandates to be invasions of privacy. Restaurants cannot knowingly allow themselves to be vectors for transmitting disease. A study done recently in Los Angeles showed that restaurants accounted for half of the city’s most serious outbreaks. The data suggests overwhelmingly that restaurant spaces should continue to exercise an abundance of caution.
This is the world you wanted, dipshit. You signed endlessly on to the ridiculous belief that we were better off all hiding indoors rather than go out and enjoy our life unencumbered (as so many of us would be) by Chairman Xi's ineffective bioweapon. You are indirectly the cause of the problems you are now concerned about.
I hope all your favourite restaurants went under and all your favourite chefs died of suicide so you'll never be able to taste the fruits of their labours again.
Bonus Adam Reiner idiocy: Naming your restaurant after yourself is anti-BIPOC male privilege.
