Anonymous wrote:She is the the worst.

Bowser is 100% MAGA.

She is the the worst.

She probably did this to keep the restaurants in DC. They could easily move to Maryland

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

You are a little dense. You can't change a business model in the middle of a restaurant's lease and then wonder why they can't make it.

DC is most anti-business friendly city I know of. We are paying for it.

You are even denser if you think anyone on here will buy the argument that the repeal of I-82 will take the DC restaurant industry back to the glory days of 2019.

And you are shameless if you advocate for policies that benefit restaurant owners and a handful of high-earning waitstaff over everyone else in the industry and, more to the point, the public at large.

Seven states - Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington - all have adopted policies identical to I-82. Competent restauranteurs don't seem to face much difficulty making money in these states.

The city radically increased costs on an industry that is famously unprofitable and half the restaurants in this city have since gone out of business. But, yeah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

You are a little dense. You can't change a business model in the middle of a restaurant's lease and then wonder why they can't make it.

DC is most anti-business friendly city I know of. We are paying for it.

You are even denser if you think anyone on here will buy the argument that the repeal of I-82 will take the DC restaurant industry back to the glory days of 2019.

And you are shameless if you advocate for policies that benefit restaurant owners and a handful of high-earning waitstaff over everyone else in the industry and, more to the point, the public at large.

Seven states - Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington - all have adopted policies identical to I-82. Competent restauranteurs don't seem to face much difficulty making money in these states.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

You are a little dense. You can't change a business model in the middle of a restaurant's lease and then wonder why they can't make it.

DC is most anti-business friendly city I know of. We are paying for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

If you can do your job at home then someone in South America can do it too.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

if waiters actually made less than minimum wage before I-82, there would be no waiters. everyone would do something else because there aren't many jobs in dc that don't pay more than minimum wage.

Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

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Anonymous wrote:Because servers don't want it.

My brother is a professional bartender in DC who routinely makes tips that equal out $50-$60/hr. A slow night for him is leaving with only ~$250 in tips. He makes $600-$800 per night Thur-Sat.

People aren't going to tip with a high hourly wage in place, and no one who has been in the service industry as a career is going to keep doing it for $17.95/hr.

Service industry workers and restaurant owners tried to tell TPTB that a higher minimum wage would not work for all establishments. For a McDonald's? Sure, but at Le Diplomate, Zaytinya, or The Hamilton, nope. They can't keep their skilled workers at that rate.

That is simply false. People who eat out still tip 20%+. Read Tom Sietsema's WP chat. The anecdata is universal.

What happened was that restaurant owners got greedy and thought they could dupe the public into paying a ton of made-up fees. And so a lot of us stopped eating out.

This is why we’ve cut back considerably on going out or only frequent small town restaurants. I’m not paying $20-30 for watered down drinks, $50-75 for bland entrees and $15-20 for uninspired desserts, then be expected to pay 10% tax and 30% gratuity on top of that???

I couldn’t agree more. I only go to eat to places that serve food I cannot prepare at home and tastes good. We usually patronize the same places and rarely explore new ones. When I explore new ones I would check the menu beforehand to see if it’s worth going. I don’t have money to pay for ambiance only, I can grab a homemade sandwich and go sit in a public park or waterfront bench and eat it for free and people watch. Usually it’s ethnic food for me because plain stuff like steaks and fish (which are usually most expensive entrees at restaurants) is easy to prepare at home. Unfortunately many ethnic food places are’t great either and loaded with bad ingredients that will make you feel the after-effects Once you find that ethnic food place that has great food that doesn’t make you feel terrible you just stick with it.

Anonymous wrote:Some of you all eat as some crappy restaurants. Let them close, then better ones can open. It's capitalism.

If I'm eating out I'd prefer either a mom and pop place with delicious food and I don't mind paying them decently for their work.

This. There are way too many places with mediocre overpriced food that stay empty. Places that have good food at moderate prices are packed. So are Michelin star places, since there is always demand from the wealthy and people celebrating special occasions. although IMHO some of them are overhyped. Casual-nice Places that serve food that’s just ok and costs min 150 for a couple to dine in with the drinks and tips may have a hard time staying in business. With people tightening their belts they are going to be reluctant to spend $30 on a piece of cheap grocery store salmon that anyone can prepare at home in 10 min or 10 bucks on a plain salad a 10 year old can make.

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Anonymous wrote:Eliminate the tipped wage, ban tipping, mandate all restaurant menus must display all-inclusive prices, tax vacant retail at an exorbitant rate.

There you go Bowser, I fixed the restaurant industry. You're welcome.

Yeah, you’ll fix it alright. People will simply stop eating out. And then there’ll be a lot more vacant retail where restaurants used to be.

Seriously, where do y’all come up with this sh!t?

Restaurants will gradually switch to take out services (essentially becoming kitchens for those who don’t cook) if people stop going out like they did during Covid with a lot of them closing. But people won’t stop going out, you cannot take away whatever little joys we have left that brings people together in real world and away from virtual world and social media.

Some of you all eat as some crappy restaurants. Let them close, then better ones can open. It's capitalism.

If I'm eating out I'd prefer either a mom and pop place with delicious food and I don't mind paying them decently for their work.