{"id":42939,"date":"2020-12-21T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=42939"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:52:21","slug":"let-him-eat-at-some-shitty-roadside-diner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=42939","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let Him Eat At Some Shitty Roadside Diner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>NYC Restaurants Strike Back, Ban Cuomo From Dining Out<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned indoor dining at New York City restaurants that could foretell a dark winter for one of the city&#8217;s top industries.<\/p>\n<p>The indoor ban is the second of the year, with at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/more-half-new-yorks-restaurants-are-danger-closing\">half<\/a>\u00a0of the city&#8217;s restaurants in danger of closing as temperatures plunge and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/picture-worth-thousands-words\">snowstorms<\/a>\u00a0deter patrons dining outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurants are furious with Cuomo&#8217;s latest decision because only 1.3% of coronavirus cases originated from eateries over the last three months.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;This is insane,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>said Yann de Rochefort, founder of the tapas chain Boqueria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They are basically shutting down industry and throwing thousands of people out of work because restaurants were linked to 1.4 percent of cases? It is criminal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Restaurant\u00a0operators will only take so much pain as many have already shuttered operations, and others are at risk of losing everything.\u00a0Festering under the surface is revolt as restaurateurs call for a city-wide permanent ban on Cuomo eating at their establishments, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconeyislandblog.com\/2020\/12\/18\/nyc-restaurants-to-ban-cuomo-from-dining\/\">The Coney Island Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/andrew%20cuomo.jpg?itok=eFjd3kVv\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/andrew%20cuomo.jpg?itok=eFjd3kVv\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/andrew%20cuomo.jpg?itok=eFjd3kVv\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9eeec199-8cf5-4137-8e0f-8dfc9749cf5b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>He can eat at some sh&#8212;- roadside diner outside of Albany but he will not be served anywhere in New York City<\/strong>, known universally as the world&#8217;s greatest dining destination! If he has to use the restroom he can go pee on my street-corner,&#8221; bar owner Larry Baird told the blog.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Members of a Facebook group called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1075279346181371\">NYC Restaurant Open<\/a>,&#8221; which are mainly restaurant and bar owners from the city, support the Cuomo ban.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;He should be banned from every restaurant bar etc he&#8217;s a scumbag f**k you coumo and di blasio,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>one group member said.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another member said: &#8220;I kind of had this thought as well if i was an owner of a restaurant in nyc after everything if he came in i would turn his ass away as well. which ever restaurants are vowing this they deserve the utmost respect.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Completely schizophrenic behavior,&#8221; someone said. &#8220;How are they coming up with these rules is beyond any logical reasoning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic began, more than a thousand restaurants in the city have already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/insane-nyc-small-businesses-furious-indoor-dining-ban-after-data-shows-restaurants\">closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A revolt is already underway against the government &#8211; some Americans no longer support draconian coronavirus measures to mitigate\u00a0the virus&#8217;s spread that ultimately decimate small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/nyc-restaurants-strike-back-cuomo-dining-ban\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/nyc-restaurants-strike-back-cuomo-dining-ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Restaurants Strike Back, Ban Cuomo From Dining Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}