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That actually sounds good. I’m going to look into that for lunch, which has gotten stale.

 

One of John Feinstein's better book lines: Hooters, "home of scantily-clad waitresses and barely edible food."

 

For all their faults, those states typically are more business friendly. So I don't know what "state policy" would be behind restaurant trouble in Indiana.

 

Sounds like most of the people at my gym. They'll, say, grill a bunch of chicken breasts and vegetables on the weekend and portion them out for lunch every day of the week. My routine is even simpler than that - I keep a tub of meal replacement protein powder at the office and have a shake for lunch.

 

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Whether you'd hear it on Fox News, or not, there is another reason for this happening, although, yes, it is related to economics.

I've realized that a lot areas are simply over-saturated with restaurants/food outlets. There is way more supply than demand, at least on the level that it takes to truly support such businesses. The rents on many locations are exorbitant these days, and often, the locations are too large for the business to support in the way the owners/companies hope, so...simple business reasons are dictating a lot of closures, too, not just the recently enacted higher pay rates of employees.

As much as people do eat out, there are still limits to how much people can/will do it, and it may not always offset business expenses enough for so many locations to be successful.

Edit: (I see that Ragu has beaten me to the points I've brought up, just above).

 

Dude, the last time I was at one of those, like 20 years ago in my late 20s, the waitresses there looked painfully young.

 

A decade ago, I was offered a comp night at the Tropicana in Atlantic City and took my then-longtime on-and-off-and-on again girlfriend with me. She had never been there so we arrived around 4 p.m., checked in and walked the entire length of the boardwalk, going into every casino (back then there were about 12) along the way. Like idiots, we didn't eat as we walked and, by the time we got back to the hotel, the only restaurant that was still open was Hooters. It was a nice night so we sat out on the boardwalk, not realizing the table next to ours served as the unofficial break room for the waitresses.

As we waited for our food, Genelle nudges me and says, "Are you listening in on this?"

Not really, I replied.

"They're talking about their birth control and the best place to get the day after pill and dudes they hooked up with," she said.

"What did you expect," I asked. "Talk about stock portfolios? They're Hooters waitresses."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/business/walgreens-closures/index.html

Major drugstore chains, including CVS (CVS) and Rite Aid, have struggled in recent years because of declining profits from filling prescriptions. They’ve declined because of lower reimbursement rates for prescription drugs -

We've been getting ripped off for years by Big Pharma.

 

But that points to the pharmacies getting screwed by Big Insurance.