Are you committed to helping restaurants during Trump’s tariff fallout?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I do this but it’s hard to find local places. I don’t eat out much anyway.
Also do places like Ledo’s count as local?

I count Ledo as local.

Ledo might be local, but I wouldn’t eat there by choice. I have been there with a sports team. It was terrible, and I wouldn’t care if it went out of business

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I do this but it’s hard to find local places. I don’t eat out much anyway.
Also do places like Ledo’s count as local?

Yes to Ledos for me!

[Anonymous]

No, I'm sorry. I will take care of myself. Restaurants are not a special category that need my special protection.

I feel like I got convinced to view restaurants as having a special status during Covid. I wound up donating to mutual aid fundraisers to support servers and we did lots of takeout and tipped extra during Covid. Then all these businesses got Covid loans they never had to pay back. Meanwhile my family struggled in a variety of ways and no one ever cared. These restaurants I was encouraged to help opened for business long before my kids were back in school. No one helped us with childcare. We had to just figure it out.

So others can figure it out. I'll do what works for me and my family.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Heritage
2 Amys
Surfside
Et Voila
Chef Geoff's and Lias

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I'm sorry. I will take care of myself. Restaurants are not a special category that need my special protection.

I feel like I got convinced to view restaurants as having a special status during Covid. I wound up donating to mutual aid fundraisers to support servers and we did lots of takeout and tipped extra during Covid. Then all these businesses got Covid loans they never had to pay back. Meanwhile my family struggled in a variety of ways and no one ever cared. These restaurants I was encouraged to help opened for business long before my kids were back in school. No one helped us with childcare. We had to just figure it out.

So others can figure it out. I'll do what works for me and my family.

Good luck.

Agree ^^

I don't have much sympathy tbh. Restaurant prices are bloated anyway. I'm not "helping" them anymore.

Its not liked restaurants "helped" me out when I was struggling (no good deals or sales). In fact, the local franchised Subway doesn't even accept the corporate coupons (for example).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, we can no longer afford to go out to eat. Rich non feds will have to do that.

Many high level two income feds are rich and making $300-600K a year.

Show me feds making $600k/yr.

Anyway we're a fed/teacher household making 180k but fearing losing 2/3 of that income to a RIF now. So "helping" restaurants is not high on the priority list.

I just got an email today saying the private sector is higher productivity, and the goal is to move public sector workers there, surely they are so successful my help is not needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we can no longer afford to go out to eat. Rich non feds will have to do that.

Many high level two income feds are rich and making $300-600K a year.

Show me a dual Fed household making $600k a year. I’ll wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we can no longer afford to go out to eat. Rich non feds will have to do that.

Many high level two income feds are rich and making $300-600K a year.

Show me a dual Fed household making $600k a year. I’ll wait.

This dude makes $10 million a year.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/tennessee-valley-authority-jeff-lyash-resigning-00201779

[Anonymous]

Nope, not protecting restaurants. They have jacked up prices way beyond reasonable- took advantage of all the community support during COVID. And the quality of food has plummeted. We eat out much less before trumps plan to wreck the economy. Definitely not going to try to save restaurants when everyone is at risk.

[Anonymous]

Puppatella

[Anonymous]

Of course not. I'm also getting tired of probably the same hysterical poster ruining every forum on DCUM with these same questions.

[Anonymous]

Can't afford to because I'm worried about my own job and a regional recession. All these R-voting "small business owners" will get what they voted for, unfortunately for all of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, we can no longer afford to go out to eat. Rich non feds will have to do that.

Many high level two income feds are rich and making $300-600K a year.

Show me a dual Fed household making $600k a year. I’ll wait.

This dude makes $10 million a year.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/tennessee-valley-authority-jeff-lyash-resigning-00201779

Meaningless. He’s not a rank and file Fed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I do this but it’s hard to find local places. I don’t eat out much anyway.
Also do places like Ledo’s count as local?

I count Ledo as local.

Ledo might be local, but I wouldn’t eat there by choice. I have been there with a sports team. It was terrible, and I wouldn’t care if it went out of business

They are very generous with local schools.

[Anonymous]

I feel bad for area restaurant workers in general with the new administration. I hear they are horrible customers, from top to bottom.