To elaborate: My wife and father in law own two restaurants in Seattle. We’ve been in business for 13 years and due to the authoritarian measures put in place by our pathetic loser governor Jay Inslee, we’re now on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. Best case scenario we can sell them for less than half of what they’re actually worth. All of this to “protect” people from a fucking virus that 99% of people recover from. I got covid, so did my wife, so did my father in law, so did my 90 year old grandma with Alzheimer’s, so did a family friend that recently had a liver transplant and is severely overweight.....we all recovered! The exploitation of coronavirus is one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen in my life.
Meanwhile the grocery stores are full of hundreds of people, you can sit on an airplane shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of people, you can go to the fucking mall and their food courts are open!! The fact that there are millions of Americans who legitimately think that ANY of this is about public health absolutely blows my mind.
The media and democrats and honestly 75%+ of republicans are truly sick. They will crush you under any circumstance for their own benefit. /rant
Open your doors. If you’re going to lose the business anyway make them expend resources to stop you.
The city will fine us or revoke our business license. It’s a lot more complicated than “just open”. Then you also have to worry about the community backlash for such an action. Like I said, this is Seattle. Everyone’s a maniac here.
Fair enough and I’m not trying talk down this is a legitimate question. Is there a point where you would open anyway? I mean how close do you come to losing everything to say “who cares if they take the permit and attempt to shut the door I’m going to fight tooth and nail”. Or do you just let it go? I hate to see people who work hard for something just have it stripped away.
Fortunately I don’t have to make that decision and I hope that you guys make the right one for you. I’ll definitely say a prayer. God speed pede.
We have discussed this at length. Sadly even if we did open up, I doubt we would receive the volume necessary to turn a profit. Even if we did, the fines the city would levy upon us would be too great to overcome considering our current financial state after 10 months of closure. The city is too powerful and we are too beat down. My family has had to find new jobs during this time, we simply cannot afford to go to battle against the city. Our only options at this point are to either walk away or pray the city allows us to open. I doubt the latter will come to fruition.