If you had to shut down any restaraunt you wanted? who would you pick?
I’d pick Wendys maybe. What about you? What’s worst Restaraunt you’ve ever been to and you would shut down if you had to??
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Pizza Hut.
In any sane universe, the law wouldn't permit them to call the crap they sell pizza.
I was reading yesterday about how the current shit-storm is going to drive a lot of independent British restaurants out of business because so many work on thin profit-margins as it is, and their landlords won't give them any breaks on the rent due.
What this means is that small, owner-operated restaurants will go to the wall, but huge corporations that can absorb the financial losses will roll on once normality is restored, so all that will be left are shitty chains selling standardised, mass-produced food.
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"their landlords won't give them any breaks on the rent due. "
See that is a problem though because if the landlords kick out the business, it isn't going to be easy to find new renters, especially before lockdown ends. Even afterwards, a lot of people are not going to have a lot of cash to throw at anything.
In the USA, a lot owner operated places are open but for carry-out only so hopefully they can stay afloat.
Whether a place is fully closed due to covid or operating under rextrictions, either way it wouldn't be in the best interest of the landlord to shut them down.
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Something else that the article I mentioned said that I can't get my head around is that the owners of commercial properties in the UK would rather let a building sit empty than accept a lower rent.
After a building has been vacant for three months, the owner has to start paying property tax on it (something tenants do under commercial leases in the UK), and clearly the owner needs to take basic security precautions and maintain the building, but it seems that their calculation is that bearing these expenses benefits them more than getting a lower rental income. I can only assume that's because a lot of commercial property here is owned by huge companies, so these expenses are used by their accountants to offset profits from other parts of the property empire and so reduce corporate taxes.
There are many things about the ownership of real estate in Britain - both commercial and residential - that's really messed up and damaging to business and society as a whole, and this is just one example. Other mind-boggling facts are that 1% of the population of England owns half of the land area of the country, and 16 estates (most of which are controlled by hereditary nobles, the Church of England or the Crown) own 1,500 acres of central London and charge ridiculously high ground-rent on those who have leases on buildings built on the land.
It isn't just the existence of the Queen that means the United Kingdom is still a feudal country in many ways.
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I dunno, probably Kentucky Fried Chicken. I remember my mom and I going to the restroom in the Kentucky Fried Chicken before ordering, and someone had vomited in the sink! We left immediately, and didn't order anything there. All my life the people in my family have referred to Kentucky Fried Chicken as Kentucky Fried Vomit.
I love fried chicken, but I prefer mine from Popeye's!
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I wouldn't shut down any restaurant, maybe I could pick one if I re-watch a bunch of Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel hell episodes, but I would like to shut down 90 percent of German clubs.
Germany does not understand clubs. Sticking a bunch of speakers, some lights and a bar in a moldy basement does not automatically turn it into a club. If you do a quick google on various clubs in any Eastern European nation, you'll learn that clubs should try their very best to look as posh and as fantastic as possible and have the best audio and lights to attract customers.
The club as a concept is supposed to be this place where you go and spend a good sum of money (50-250 Euro, or more if you are rich...), so you want everything to be perfect and be worth it. You wanna feel special. You wanna be the douchebag that parked his car in a VIP parking spot for everyone to see, you want to get a VIP table on an elevated position, have girls dance around you, because you're in the VIP section. You want the DJ to play songs specially picked for you. You wanna get drunk in style and when you leave, the bouncers make way for you and wish you a good night/ morning and treat you like a buddy. That's what a club is supposed to be in my mind. That's what most clubs in Eastern Europe are like.
German clubs simply do not deliver. They are small, cramped, with terrible A/C and reek of body odors and booze, the sound quality is terrible, the lights are terrible, it's all terrible. Yet somehow, they are always full!
The staff treats customers like shit, the bouncers treat customers like shit, everything is way, way too overpriced, going to the bathroom costs money!!!Even after you've paid a 10 Euro entrance fee and have ordered a 150 Euro bottle of whiskey!!! That is unacceptable and I wish places like this would get devoured by a magma creature!
German clubs are so bad, that I haven't visited one since my first year as a university student... I saved party cash for proper parties back home.
I'd love to build a Balkan style club in my city... I think it would be an instant success and put every other club to shame. Too bad I don't have a few million Euros lying about...
So yeah, I don't want to shut down an honest working restaurant, I want to shut down shitty German clubs!
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There’s a cafe two streets from my house run by this towering old man who looks like the uncloaked grim reaper and gives me a death stare through the window whenever I pass it.
All the online reviews are one star saying he’s rude and horrible at his job. I’m assuming the whole cafe is just a front to launder money as I’ve never seen a customer inside and there are only two small tables anyway. I’d close him down.
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