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

[Anonymous]

Nope, sorry. No spending on luxuries for the foreseeable future.

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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.

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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.

Their pizza is horrible.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m resolved to absolutely no fast food or Starbucks. Corporations can take care of themselves.

Local restaurants only, as much as we can, skipping add-ons like sodas (again, corporations) and desserts, which are all too often Sysco cheesecake and the like.

I’m favoring single-location restaurants, no restaurant groups unless they are like 3-5 restaurants all locally owned.

No. Why would anyone do any of that?

[Anonymous]

I'll keep cooking at home like I have been. Restaurants are a scam.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Every restaurant owner i know is wealthy. Going to restaurants isn't fun anymore.

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No. I want as much pain as possible specially to republicans. Hopefully the country will break up. The blue states and red states need to be their own countries.

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

Oh, please. You've heard that Trumpers are "horrible customers"? I'm not one but even I have to say that is one of the most bigoted comments I've read here - and there are a lot of crazy libs making stupid remarks here as of late. Care to substantiate? like, with real facts and data? Sheesh!

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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 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.

Where are the goal posts? I can't see them anymore.

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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.

Their pizza is horrible.

Their crust is tasty but they haven't had a combination of toppings I have liked in a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m resolved to absolutely no fast food or Starbucks. Corporations can take care of themselves.

Local restaurants only, as much as we can, skipping add-ons like sodas (again, corporations) and desserts, which are all too often Sysco cheesecake and the like.

I’m favoring single-location restaurants, no restaurant groups unless they are like 3-5 restaurants all locally owned.

We did this anyway. Cell phones and Google and Yelp have been really helpful for finding local restaurants when traveling. Only time we wouldn't was if we only had a few minutes at a highway rest stop. Unfortunately now with the economic insecurity we will be eating out even less.

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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.

Their pizza is horrible.

Their crust is tasty but they haven't had a combination of toppings I have liked in a while.

Um, did you know you can customize your own toppings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Been doing that for many years. Minus the water only. Food is usually better.

This, but with the uncertainty I expect we are cutting back on dining out anyway along with many conveniences and extra spending. We may still hit up a local favorite every so often if we can but it will be rarer now.

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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.

Their pizza is horrible.

Their crust is tasty but they haven't had a combination of toppings I have liked in a while.

Um, did you know you can customize your own toppings?

They have specialty "seasonal" pizzas. That's the only reason to go.