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drunkenviking t1_j8udoi8 wrote

Reply to comment by art36 in Max and Erma’s - Cranberry Township Location. Last day of operations is 02/25/2023 by DarkLuc1d1ty

Do I need to support every shitty restaurant so that those workers can keep their jobs?

It's a serious question.

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art36 t1_j8ulyo9 wrote

No, but when the shitty restaurants close it’s still a bad sign and signals to other bad outcomes in the local economy. Reacting “oh well, who cares” shows a lack of concern to a genuinely concerning trend.

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drunkenviking t1_j8umzlw wrote

Not really, shitty restaurants close all the time. If the good ones start closing that's when it's to worry.

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art36 t1_j8uo3wl wrote

Not as rapidly as in the past couple years. That should cause legitimate concern. It points to larger issues. The dismissive nature of this is so off-putting.

Plenty of good restaurants have shuttered their doors, too, but this sub immediately attributes it to management being anti-worker.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j8wr36g wrote

Restaurants operate on razor-thin margins, and restaurants close all the time. New restaurants open all the time.
 
This is nothing new and people shrieking about it like it's the doomsday clock are overreacting.
 
The entire sector of casual sitdown-dinner-three-days-a-week places is a recent thing and it depended on cheap labor and cheap food they could mark way up. It wasn't going to last forever.

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DabsDoctor t1_j8wjo7c wrote

So you're basically saying capitalism's main tenant—the will of the market—is a bad thing?

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j8x1pb2 wrote

The P-G and KDKA are still talking about restaurants having a hard time due to "pandemic restrictions."
 
Every single pandemic restriction on restaurants in this state went away on May 2021. Nearly two years ago.
 
Maybe these restaurant owners are just incompetent.

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DabsDoctor t1_j8x1w75 wrote

>Maybe these restaurant owners are just incompetent.

bingo

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