Chapotraphouse

if we have to have privately owned restaurants they should at least be like heavily subsidized by the state like farmers are, it's fucking ridiculous imo that institutions as important as places that fucking feed people are subject to such thin profit margins that a couple weeks of slow business could shut them down forever

I'm not saying this out of sympathy to the owners, but for the people who live in the area and eat there, it really sucks to have restaurants you like go out of business especially if it leaves you with very few options for meals you don't have to prepare yourself

Part of what puts me off from even trying to open my own restaurant (aside from feeling like an imposter pretending to be a chef, still) is knowing how easy it is for them to fail and just leave me with a bunch of debt. Or me and a bunch of people since I guess to not be a petty bourgeois fuck I'd need to have some sort of employee co op thing going