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Catfishenfuego posted:I did, would you like the telegraph, cnn, or the guardian you tory oval office? Two of my friends are homeless and we're begging our landlord for a stay on rent because my housemate lost her job and can't get any support whatsoever. The government's refusing to test and initially announced a plan to kill 250,000 UK citizens before they backtracked when the public called them out on it. I’m very sorry about your friends, I hope they can make it through this alright. I guess I was wrong.
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droll posted:This is going to extend well beyond April. Yeah, some of the discussions I'm reading suggest this may need to extend for up to 18 months. That would be the end of the industry as we know it.
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Liquid Communism posted:Yeah, some of the discussions I'm reading suggest this may need to extend for up to 18 months. That'd be the end of a lot more than the restaurant industry. The entire retail sector would be annihilated. Between that and hospitality, that's 20% of the US economy right there. With retail gone, manufacturing takes a huge hit. Construction's gone, because nobody can afford to buy. That's existential-threat levels of destruction. Transportation is an obvious casualty, there won't be any airlines left. Warehousing. Professional and business services for the said aforementioned disappeared sectors. Ain't going to happen. Aside from the enormous political cost of putting that big a chunk of America out of work, nobody's going to put up with enforced hermitization for a year and a half. Or at least, not enough people to make a difference. It's not sustainable.
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eSports Chaebol posted:Surely a sparsely-populated island is a fairly safe place to be right now I'm in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Our province of 160,000 people has two confirmed cases so far. We have one bridge connecting us to the mainland, which is not yet being monitored, and air traffic in Canada is severely reduced. Everything government run (schools, community centres, casino, liquor stores, etc) is all shut down. Restaurants are mandated to be take out/delivery only and have to provide guidance for 'social distancing' to people standing in line. My favorite brewery has tape on the floor every 6 feet in front of the register so people know how far to stand from each other. Cruise ships are banned in Canada until June at the earliest, so that's going to hit our downtown places hard. Aside from tourism, agriculture is our other big money maker. The farmers and sea food processors are freaking out because they absolutely need migrant workers from Mexico. Canuckistan fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Phanatic posted:That'd be the end of a lot more than the restaurant industry. The entire retail sector would be annihilated. Between that and hospitality, that's 20% of the US economy right there. With retail gone, manufacturing takes a huge hit. Construction's gone, because nobody can afford to buy. That's existential-threat levels of destruction. Transportation is an obvious casualty, there won't be any airlines left. Warehousing. Professional and business services for the said aforementioned disappeared sectors. Well, yeah. Hence the huge options being floated in the House right now. The choice being presented is long quarantine while a functional vaccine is tested or upwards of 10 million dead with no assurance it stops there. Hopefully that's panic talking, but if it is it's panic briefing Congress.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Y'know, on reflection, maybe that was a dumb question, at least about Sysco. Do they distribute to all these supermarkets getting pounded, or just restaurant industry? I mean, it's not like supermarkets are carrying 1 gallon jugs of Sysco-branded heavy-duty mayonnaise or 5 gallon buckets of lard. My route at sysco on wednsday was weird. It was stitched from two different routes so in the morning I was super early for some people and in the afternoon I was super late for other people even though according to sysco's BS schedule I was "on time". It was also a fuckton of stops with 17. I remember the guy at stop 15 said he is usually number 6. I'm about to be laid off anyways since the first wave already hit. And no we don't distribute to supermarkets afaik. I have seen some of the koch chicken we carry being sold in some asian grocery stores for some reason, but the only grocery stores I've been to have like delis in them. Right now the only business I see us getting is hospitals, retirement homes, catering companies, and jimmy johns/papa murphy's/jersey mikes. Our daily case count got cut in half and now saturdays are gone. AdorableStar fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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(UK) All pubs, restaurants, clubs, gyms etc. to be closed. Anyone who can't work will have 80% of their wages covered up to a max of £2,500 a month. Closures to last 14 days before a reassessment. I'm glad they have finally taken action.
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Why would they pick 80% and not 100%? Was there an specific reason given other than 'holy poo poo this is expensive'?
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taqueso posted:Why would they pick 80% and not 100%? Was there an specific reason given other than 'holy poo poo this is expensive'? I imagine the justification is that without work your expenses will be lower, no travel costs, work clothing, etc. required. Also yeah, pretty expensive but hopefully long term people will realise that when something goes wrong we rely on socialism, not capitalism to bail us out. Might make a change for the better.
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Via the Good Tweets thread: https://twitter.com/verysmallanna/status/1240754447438970880
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Hey y'all, so... I got mod clearance to pimp out a thread in PYF (since it gets a bit more traffic than other subs) for us goons who make music, since Bandcamp is waiving fees today so we artists get 100% of everything sold. As a BOH bitch who is out of a day job, shilling my noise on BC is probably the only way I'm gonna make any money for the foreseeable future. Everyone's welcome to PYF Bandcamp artist, so if there's someone near and dear to you who could use some support right now, post their BC, goon or not! Or just visit and get some cool new stuff to listen to while you computer touchers who fled the industry and still have jobs are sequestered in yer homes. The Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3917758 Please note that 2Dcat is donating all their proceeds to a DelMarVa GoFundMe that is helping out industry grunts in the Mid-Atlantic area. Thanks, y'all!
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Raikiri posted:I imagine the justification is that without work your expenses will be lower, no travel costs, work clothing, etc. required. When I was full time, simply working at a restaurant would cover maybe 75% of my meals in a week. I'd usually have cereal and coffee in the morning and then also have some leftovers from work for the weekend.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Application sent! I worked at a retirement home kitchen in Virginia and they piss tested me, but once you were on they didn't give a poo poo
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Via the Good Tweets thread: Fuckin A especially us hospital cooks. I came home and had three shots.  e - I threw like 60bux at bandcamp this week to support some artists I love, for like 25 albums and some assorted singles. But be safe and be well Jaqu dear. It's weird to be in an essential job rn.
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Manuel Calavera posted:It's weird to be in an essential job rn. this is loving with my low self-esteem so much. luckily i'm stocked up on booze days off feel surreal now bc i'm doing what i would have probably done anyway but now it's an imperative instead of the natural result of crippling anxiety
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Right? Going out costs money. I can just, make my own food. And I'm pretty stocked on liqour too. Y'all who are being cut and laid off, you have as much empathy as I can manage. Be safe and be well.
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"Virginia ABC allowing all restaurants with ABC-on licenses to sell wine and beer to go" https://www.roanoke.com/news/virgin...726c5958ce.html ...not just "to-go" like in-person carry outs; this means (if I actually had the money) I could get beer delivered through muthafuckin' DoorDash/UberEats/GrubHub right now. 
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JacquelineDempsey posted:"Virginia ABC allowing all restaurants with ABC-on licenses to sell wine and beer to go" California is doing the same thing, my old restaurant is doing dinner and cocktails delivery or curbside.
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This is normal in England... quite a few shops on Deliveroo etc. Always rip off prices though (£8 for 4*440ml cans of generic lager, plus delivery).
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Mithross posted:California is doing the same thing, my old restaurant is doing dinner and cocktails delivery or curbside. Pssssh, yeah [waves hand], but that's California , where you can saunter into the Walgreens across from your hotel at 1 am after realizing you forgot to pack your toothbrush and you can walk out with not only a toothbrush but a liter of Stoli just because you can. (Y...Y'know, what I heard from a friend, totally not me.) VA, you can't even buy beer anywhere after midnight, and it was only in recent years our state-run liquor stores finally opened up on Sundays. That our governor, a former doctor, just said "y'know what? gently caress it, state of emergency, go ahead and get some beer with that pizza you ordered, just stay the gently caress home" is just blowing my lil' mind. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Pssssh, yeah [waves hand], but that's California , where you can saunter into the Walgreens across from your hotel at 1 am after realizing you forgot to pack your toothbrush and you can walk out with not only a toothbrush but a liter of Stoli just because you can. (Y...Y'know, what I heard from a friend, totally not me.) When I first moved to LA I went to the corner store across from my apartment at 11:30 and noticed they had liquor and asked the Vietnamese lady who owned the place when they stopped selling whiskey. After yelling “we close at two am” at me ten times I realized the answer. Then I bought two 2 liters of Diet Coke and a handle of Jim beam and walked home.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:When I first moved to LA I went to the corner store across from my apartment at 11:30 and noticed they had liquor and asked the Vietnamese lady who owned the place when they stopped selling whiskey. After yelling “we close at two am” at me ten times I realized the answer. Yeah, but then we get New York transplants bitching about there being no bars open at 3 am.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:"Virginia ABC allowing all restaurants with ABC-on licenses to sell wine and beer to go" Florida did something similar. I saw on Instagram earlier a local Mexican restaurant is selling gallon jugs of their house margarita to-go.
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NSW in Australia is about to get shut down completely over the next 48 hours or so. So far restrictions have been based around the number of people allowed to be in a given space but that is changing shortly. I feel bad for all of the industry peeps that are going to be out of work for the foreseeable future and if nothing else the government has upped it's social security payments to be available to anyone who's out of work without a waiting period at a rate that actually reflects a living wage.
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Hey all -- this is loving insane no matter where you are, eh? My little piece of land (e-commerce and online alcohol delivery) is over the top busy, but of course the rest of my company that deals in restaurants is.. well I dont even know. Daniel Boloud and Danny Meyer laid everyone off. I got a painkiller delivered to my apartment. Carbone is doing takeout. poo poo is off the walls weird rn. I've left sourdough starter on my doorstop for about a dozen redditors (sorry).
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Oahu and Maui close today at 4:30 PM Island Time until April 30 for everything not deemed essential. Food delivery and takeout counts as essential, so back of house might come out of this okay for businesses already set up for takeout and delivery. Gig delivery people are going to make a killing until landlords start going "ahem you still owe me" and well we'll see how that goes. Front of house is murdered. And so is the unemployment website. April 1st is going to be unpredictable.
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My wife runs a few delivery restaurants. The first few days got them scared, especially with closing dine-in, but their delivery is busier than ever. They sold out of food at two stores on Saturday and had to close early.
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Apparently tomorrow is "the great American take out". A manufactured event on social media to encourage everyone to support restaurants by getting take out... All on the same day... After many places have scaled back staffing due to business being down.
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Look, when have customers ever struck you as a group of people with an innate respect of other people's time/busyness? Why would that change now?
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I went to a coffee shop on the way to work today that mostly sells pies as its daily business. In order to comply with restrictions they'd cleared out all of the tables to do takeaway only. In Australia they've shut down a large majority of the hospitality industry leaving gigantic numbers of people queing up to get a CRN so that they can access welfare because they can't work anymore. I'm kinda glad I'm a former chef but I moved into school teaching and atm schools are essentially running as usual just without the canteen being a thing. The schools solution is to put on a BBQ and I hope that tomorrow schools are shut properly or that student numbers drop off further.
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My bar/grill owner decided to close indefinitely starting yesterday, but at least he's still giving us full timers paychecks for up to a month. Gives me the time and security to really hunt down a non-service industry job. I've been doing a half-assed job applying for a while, but now I can really whole-rear end it and hopefully escape for good.
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Our very good and smart government keeps claiming they won't do something then pulling a 180 and doing it with no notice so I've spent the last five days organising the redistribution of two literal tonnes of food from closing restaurants and chains to various homeless/foodbank/community kitchen charities in the city.
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