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Serial killer Cuomo New York's restaurant-killing rules make no sense - and it keeps getting worse
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 24, 2021, 5:04:52 PM1/24/21
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On Thursday, New York City issued a brain-numbing “COVID-19 Dining Update”
for restaurants. Among the new rules: Employees would be barred from
eating inside any part of the restaurant normally used by patrons. Orders
for takeout could only be placed via email or telephone. Most shockingly,
patrons dining at a restaurant’s outdoor seating area couldn’t use the
restroom inside.
It seemed like Kafkaesque satire for the pandemic age. But no, emblazoned
at the top of the notice was the official logo of the Office of the
Counsel to the Mayor.
A backlash ensued. Our leaders, full of holiday benevolence, bent just
this once and allowed patrons sitting outdoors in 30-degree weather to use
restaurant bathrooms. They will now also allow people to come inside the
establishment to place and pick up to-go orders. But only until 10 p.m. —
after which time food must be picked up curbside or through a window.
Don’t try too hard to make sense of any of this from a pandemic-fighting
perspective. You’ll only give yourself a headache.
The new city diktats are just the latest serving of hell dished out to
restaurateurs and their workers by a political class that continues to
receive regular paychecks courtesy of taxpayers.
With few exceptions like City Councilman Joe Borelli, few dare state the
obvious: that destroying the restaurant industry isn’t going to stop the
spread of the coronavirus — and was never going to.
Indeed, on the day Gov. Andrew Cuomo shuttered indoor dining in the Big
Apple, he produced a chart that showed restaurants were responsible for
only 1.4 percent of the spread. The governor closed the restaurants
anyway.
Tina Plagos, owner of three Souvlaki GR restaurants in Manhattan, tells
me, “We haven’t had a profit since February and have bought air purifiers,
heaters, a ton of extra cleaning supplies, masks, hand sanitizer and have
spent thousands to build and rebuild the outdoor seating area.”
It’s the absurdity that enrages: “In Long Island, customers can sit and
eat at the bar six feet apart, but in New York City, no one is allowed
near the bar. You can’t order a drink at the bar, let alone eat at the
bar.”
If restaurants are dangerous, why are they closed only in New York City,
not throughout the state? Why are nearly all of our elected officials
silent, shivering in their boots rather than taking a stand for the
businesses that make our city run? Our restaurant industry is suffering
abuse, and the politicos won’t say anything.
Rafi Hasid, owner of the restaurant 1803 in Tribeca and Miriam in Brooklyn
and Manhattan, says he has spent at least $10,000 per restaurant to keep
up with the constant regulatory shifts.
“In the beginning,” he recalls, “they said they’re going to allow propane
heaters. But then they said you can’t have them on the street side or on
the outside of the sidewalk. Then they said you can’t keep the propane
tanks on your property and must store them at a different location every
night. So that was a wasted purchase.”
He continues: “We capsuled the outdoor seating, so every table has its own
personal area. The Health Department said it’s good. Then the Fire
Department said we need a door, and it should be closed. Then yesterday,
we got an email from the city that the door can’t be closed, because the
space needs to be open on two sides. We keep investing money but what’s
the criteria to open indoor dining again? We have no idea.”
The arbitrary 10 p.m. close time — premised on the ludicrous notion that
the virus hunts at night — is particularly crushing. If restaurants have a
reservation at 6:30 p.m. that lasts until 8:30, the following reservation
either has to have a shortened meal or they can’t accept it at all.
“Restaurants are mainly family-owned and made up of mainly minorities,”
Plagos adds. “They aren’t corporate America. We were living the American
dream of working hard and taking care of our families, and now they took
that right away from us.”
FILED UNDER ANDREW CUOMO , CORONAVIRUS IN NY , RESTAURANTS ,
SOCIALISM , 12/20/20
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recover with no after effects.
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ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
sense/
On Thursday, New York City issued a brain-numbing “COVID-19 Dining Update”
for restaurants. Among the new rules: Employees would be barred from
eating inside any part of the restaurant normally used by patrons. Orders
for takeout could only be placed via email or telephone. Most shockingly,
patrons dining at a restaurant’s outdoor seating area couldn’t use the
restroom inside.
It seemed like Kafkaesque satire for the pandemic age. But no, emblazoned
at the top of the notice was the official logo of the Office of the
Counsel to the Mayor.
A backlash ensued. Our leaders, full of holiday benevolence, bent just
this once and allowed patrons sitting outdoors in 30-degree weather to use
restaurant bathrooms. They will now also allow people to come inside the
establishment to place and pick up to-go orders. But only until 10 p.m. —
after which time food must be picked up curbside or through a window.
Don’t try too hard to make sense of any of this from a pandemic-fighting
perspective. You’ll only give yourself a headache.
The new city diktats are just the latest serving of hell dished out to
restaurateurs and their workers by a political class that continues to
receive regular paychecks courtesy of taxpayers.
With few exceptions like City Councilman Joe Borelli, few dare state the
obvious: that destroying the restaurant industry isn’t going to stop the
spread of the coronavirus — and was never going to.
Indeed, on the day Gov. Andrew Cuomo shuttered indoor dining in the Big
Apple, he produced a chart that showed restaurants were responsible for
only 1.4 percent of the spread. The governor closed the restaurants
anyway.
Tina Plagos, owner of three Souvlaki GR restaurants in Manhattan, tells
me, “We haven’t had a profit since February and have bought air purifiers,
heaters, a ton of extra cleaning supplies, masks, hand sanitizer and have
spent thousands to build and rebuild the outdoor seating area.”
It’s the absurdity that enrages: “In Long Island, customers can sit and
eat at the bar six feet apart, but in New York City, no one is allowed
near the bar. You can’t order a drink at the bar, let alone eat at the
bar.”
If restaurants are dangerous, why are they closed only in New York City,
not throughout the state? Why are nearly all of our elected officials
silent, shivering in their boots rather than taking a stand for the
businesses that make our city run? Our restaurant industry is suffering
abuse, and the politicos won’t say anything.
Rafi Hasid, owner of the restaurant 1803 in Tribeca and Miriam in Brooklyn
and Manhattan, says he has spent at least $10,000 per restaurant to keep
up with the constant regulatory shifts.
“In the beginning,” he recalls, “they said they’re going to allow propane
heaters. But then they said you can’t have them on the street side or on
the outside of the sidewalk. Then they said you can’t keep the propane
tanks on your property and must store them at a different location every
night. So that was a wasted purchase.”
He continues: “We capsuled the outdoor seating, so every table has its own
personal area. The Health Department said it’s good. Then the Fire
Department said we need a door, and it should be closed. Then yesterday,
we got an email from the city that the door can’t be closed, because the
space needs to be open on two sides. We keep investing money but what’s
the criteria to open indoor dining again? We have no idea.”
The arbitrary 10 p.m. close time — premised on the ludicrous notion that
the virus hunts at night — is particularly crushing. If restaurants have a
reservation at 6:30 p.m. that lasts until 8:30, the following reservation
either has to have a shortened meal or they can’t accept it at all.
“Restaurants are mainly family-owned and made up of mainly minorities,”
Plagos adds. “They aren’t corporate America. We were living the American
dream of working hard and taking care of our families, and now they took
that right away from us.”
FILED UNDER ANDREW CUOMO , CORONAVIRUS IN NY , RESTAURANTS ,
SOCIALISM , 12/20/20
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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