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? 🤣
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.