How has the week thus far been for restaurant owners? I live in a super tourist area (Fl Keys) and as of right now business has been crap. Not blaming customers as I don’t eat out either, but holy hell so far everyone is splitting meals it seems this year or skipping dining out (understandable with expenses being nuts these days). Usually open Thanksgiving but closed this year as it’s just been way too slow and not worth opening. I’m not sure if people are just straight up in denial, but it definitely isn’t looking good here. People keep telling me it’s fine it’ll pick up, but 5 yrs in working everyday things are very different now and not buying the “it’ll pick up”… hopefully someone can prove me wrong? 🤣
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I worked at a pizza shop in my teens and the day before thanksgiving was one of the busiest days of the year
It’s slow across the country. Most people live paycheck to paycheck and have maxed their credits already. It’ll be a while till things go back to normal, it’s on survival mode now.
Maybe If shitty airbnbs in the keys weren’t $500/nt you’d have some business. I’ve long wanted to visit the keys but accommodation costs are prohibitive.
Genocide, war, slave labor, hundreds of thousands of layoffs, inflation, interest rates, I transitioned out of customer facing service during Covid and I’d never go back
It’s been the same forever, Cuba missile crisis, Vietnam, jfk, Iraq war, desert storm, Afghanistan war, 9/11, hurricanes, housing crisis, riots, protests, business tanks every time…
You sound like a Billy Joel song…
Ya, I opened precovid, went through covid, now wish I just closed when covid happened. It’s been a fun learning experience but at this point it’s becoming comical to hear people to tell me to work more when I could just close up and go get a job at McDonald’s that would pay me the same with half the stress. Otherwise I’ll prob just go back to my old corporate gig. Which pays way more for power point presentations. Lmao.
why do you keep putting war and genocide for reasons consumers arent spending money lol
The economy is a little slow, however you should take other factors into account, there is less and less money but you can scrape off the little that there is, what type of restaurant do you have?
Mediterranean that keeps prices low. Needed to raise them this week after delaying, but with how slow it is, honestly not gonna do it.
Raising your prices isn’t going to make it slower, as long as it’s reasonable.
I dunno. We are a family of 4. We traveled to Amana, Iowa this year for Thanksgiving and dropped about $200 total for Thanksgiving dinner. Plenty of others were here doing the same.
Florida has its own unique set of problems nowadays. I am going to suggest that perhaps that is the issue you are facing.
Also that would be the cost for 2 ppl here. $200/for 4 ppl isn’t a thing. Any sort of thanksgiving is running ppl at cheapest sit in $80/pp otherwise most are charging $125/pp at thanksgiving. So, likely why ppl aren’t visiting is my best guess.
I mean , I’m telling you, as a consumer, what I am doing and what I am seeing other people like me doing. I can tell you nobody in my LGBT circles and social groups would even consider going to Florida nowadays. Ten years ago it was a regular destination.
Mexico is where we are all headed for socializing and personal travel.
I live in key west, so “Florida problems” don’t really exist here as we are an island 120+ miles from actual Florida. Huge lgbt population, left leaning area, so it’s hard to compare actual Florida to the reality here and most people know that. But, our inflation rate is higher than Miami which is the highest, we just don’t get included bc we are an island chain.
We we’re going to come to the keys diving but with the book bans, don’t say gay initiatives, and anti trans sentiment we went to the Bahamas instead
Fahrenheit 451 in Florida!? Crazy. I’ll be sure to stock up on my Denham’s Dentrafist.