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Bruinaura
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and the beat of 2020 will never end.....
Earthquake rattles SF/Marin County, as if California hasn't had enough between Wildfire/COVID
Earthquake rattles SF/Marin County, as if California hasn't had enough between Wildfire/COVID
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Province of BC announced restaurants and liquor stores have to stop all alcohol sales at 8 pm, just another kick to the nuts of great restaurant owners who are literally hanging on for life to stay open. Below is something written by a restauranteur in the States and I loved it
This is brilliant! Written by a restaurant owner:
As I walk into the grocery store with 30 other people at the same time, I think about my restaurant which allows parties of 6 total, and meticulously spaces out reservations by 10 minutes ensuring guests that aren’t from the same party do not arrive at the same time.
As I take a cart, that has had just the handle sanitized, I think about my restaurant which invested thousands of dollars (so far) on ink and paper to print disposable menus to ensure no two guests touch the same menu.
As I walk over to the produce aisle with 15-20 other people around me, I’m reminded of the strict “no mingling / no walking around the restaurant other than to use the washroom or enter/exit” policy we have in place and the 6ft distance between tables which has cut our capacity in half.
As I watch the woman next to me pick up apples with her hand, check them over closely and then put them back on the open pile and repeats this until she finds the perfect apples — the same thing that all other people that day who want an apple will then do and then put those apples into their mouths, I think about the two step sanitation process in place at my restaurant for all cutlery and dishes and glassware in between every single guest, and the sanitation of every surface guests touch (tables, chairs, salt and pepper shakers, etc).
As I watch the man in the next aisle over ignore or not notice the directional arrows on the ground, I think about my restaurant and the constant redirecting our staff does of guests - by locking certain doors, blocking areas off and the work my team does to simply not allow guests to walk where they are not supposed to.
As I walk down the cereal aisle, I see a person with their mask off so they can talk on the phone, and I’m reminded of my restaurant where our masking policy has lost us so much business.
As I check out at the cashier, I use my debit card to pay and see the plastic film covering the terminal. It was not sanitized after the person before me used it. I am reminded of the sanitizer used on the debit terminals in between each guest every time at my restaurant.
As I stand at a crowded exit trying to leave, I’m reminded of the detailed contact tracing in place at my restaurant that records the name, phone number, table number, arrival and exit time, as well as the server and section the guest sat in that is in place at my restaurant— not one of those pieces of information was taken from any customer here.
As I get into my car and watch all these people leave the store, I wonder which person will visit my establishment after contracting covid at this grocery store, and I wonder why on earth my restaurant will be blamed as the source.
Restaurants are being targeted as the “source” of Covid infections because we are one of the ONLY industries required to provide contact tracing.
Someone with Covid could have gone to Costco, Home Depot, Walmart, the Mall food court....any grocery store, etc. Yet it’s the restaurant that took their detailed information that will be forced to close and deemed responsible for the infection.
You want to blame restaurants for the spread after thousands of dollars investing in equipment, training and stricter policies than ANYWHERE ELSE?!
PROVE
IT
#saverestaurants
This is brilliant! Written by a restaurant owner:
As I walk into the grocery store with 30 other people at the same time, I think about my restaurant which allows parties of 6 total, and meticulously spaces out reservations by 10 minutes ensuring guests that aren’t from the same party do not arrive at the same time.
As I take a cart, that has had just the handle sanitized, I think about my restaurant which invested thousands of dollars (so far) on ink and paper to print disposable menus to ensure no two guests touch the same menu.
As I walk over to the produce aisle with 15-20 other people around me, I’m reminded of the strict “no mingling / no walking around the restaurant other than to use the washroom or enter/exit” policy we have in place and the 6ft distance between tables which has cut our capacity in half.
As I watch the woman next to me pick up apples with her hand, check them over closely and then put them back on the open pile and repeats this until she finds the perfect apples — the same thing that all other people that day who want an apple will then do and then put those apples into their mouths, I think about the two step sanitation process in place at my restaurant for all cutlery and dishes and glassware in between every single guest, and the sanitation of every surface guests touch (tables, chairs, salt and pepper shakers, etc).
As I watch the man in the next aisle over ignore or not notice the directional arrows on the ground, I think about my restaurant and the constant redirecting our staff does of guests - by locking certain doors, blocking areas off and the work my team does to simply not allow guests to walk where they are not supposed to.
As I walk down the cereal aisle, I see a person with their mask off so they can talk on the phone, and I’m reminded of my restaurant where our masking policy has lost us so much business.
As I check out at the cashier, I use my debit card to pay and see the plastic film covering the terminal. It was not sanitized after the person before me used it. I am reminded of the sanitizer used on the debit terminals in between each guest every time at my restaurant.
As I stand at a crowded exit trying to leave, I’m reminded of the detailed contact tracing in place at my restaurant that records the name, phone number, table number, arrival and exit time, as well as the server and section the guest sat in that is in place at my restaurant— not one of those pieces of information was taken from any customer here.
As I get into my car and watch all these people leave the store, I wonder which person will visit my establishment after contracting covid at this grocery store, and I wonder why on earth my restaurant will be blamed as the source.
Restaurants are being targeted as the “source” of Covid infections because we are one of the ONLY industries required to provide contact tracing.
Someone with Covid could have gone to Costco, Home Depot, Walmart, the Mall food court....any grocery store, etc. Yet it’s the restaurant that took their detailed information that will be forced to close and deemed responsible for the infection.
You want to blame restaurants for the spread after thousands of dollars investing in equipment, training and stricter policies than ANYWHERE ELSE?!
PROVE
#saverestaurants
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Bruinaura
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Somehow I don't think years from now people will look bad fondly at 2020
Bruinaura
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A friend of mine has a toddler who somehow snuck a jar of jelly out of the fridge and crammed handfuls of jelly down the air conditioning vents. Happy end of 2020 to them! 
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A friend of mine has a toddler who somehow snuck a jar of jelly out of the fridge and crammed handfuls of jelly down the air conditioning vents. Happy end of 2020 to them!
My twins are 12 now and my youngest is 8. Even now, my wife and I marvel at how insanely destructive they are. They break so much shit in our home on a daily basis that its outrageous. One of the better ones was my oldest a couple of years ago stuck a meat thermometer into my usb port on my laptop and fried it. I was like WTF did you do that for? She goes, I wanted to see how hot it got inside. Thankfully they have a built in trip so it doesn't destroy the hard drive, and all I had to do was take the battery off and reset it, but still. Dining room tables, dining room floors. Couches. Chairs. Recliners. Walls. All have been victims of their deviousness. My baby when she was 6 drew a line from the kitchen to the dining room with a permanent sharpie. I go, why did you do that? She goes, I don't know. I said no more drawing on anything with a sharpie as they're hard to remove. She goes okay. I go to the basement to get the murphy's wood soap and I come back up and there are now two black lines on the floor. I go wtf did you draw a second line when we talked about not doing that any more? She goes, the first line was lonely dad, so I drew him a friend.
Don Cherry
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No mention of Eddie Van Halen in the Hail and Fairwell? Really?? The greatest guitarist ever?? One of the best hands ever?? Seriously??!!
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Happy new year from Finland. May 2021 be a lot better for everyone.
As we step into a new year, there's an awful lot of people around the world who are wishing good riddance to 2020 and looking at 2021 as a being a whole new era where better times return. I get it - people are thoroughly sick of what's been a horrible year and it's natural to have the 'grass is greener' approach to what's beyond. All I want to add is a word of caution. Following the normal trajectory of pandemics, we're not even quite halfway through this one, even allowing for the effects of the vaccines, and it's almost certainly going to still be with us for many months yet, with all the ongoing restrictions and threats to health and life that entails. And the economic impacts are in an even earlier stage of development, and have a long time still to play out.
So 2021 is going to be a grind in many ways. At least the initial shock is gone, and hopefully there are no more nasty surprises and we will see good news as vaccine programs gradually bring more and more of us towards some measure of safety and normality. It's always nice to step into a new chapter and consider new opportunities. So by all means let's welcome a new year. I just don't want to see people be too disappointed or depressed when the issues of 2020 don't just magically disappear because of an arbitrary change of calendars and we've still got to battle on for quite some time yet. We're playing the long game here.
But enough of that gloominess. Still I say, happy new year to all!! Hope it's a good, better and healthy one for everybody
So 2021 is going to be a grind in many ways. At least the initial shock is gone, and hopefully there are no more nasty surprises and we will see good news as vaccine programs gradually bring more and more of us towards some measure of safety and normality. It's always nice to step into a new chapter and consider new opportunities. So by all means let's welcome a new year. I just don't want to see people be too disappointed or depressed when the issues of 2020 don't just magically disappear because of an arbitrary change of calendars and we've still got to battle on for quite some time yet. We're playing the long game here.
But enough of that gloominess. Still I say, happy new year to all!! Hope it's a good, better and healthy one for everybody
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Right back at you, Soosh!!
Happy new year HF fam! I drink to your health!
RoccoF14
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LOL. When my oldest was 5 (he’s 23 now), he got up one morning and decided to doodle on the arm rest of our brand new leather couch with a black sharpie. This was in early December and instead of yelling at him, my wife and I pretended to have a serious conversation about how we’d have to cancel Christmas this year and use all the present money to get a new couch. We made sure he was in earshot and was listening to the whole thing.
After dwelling on that in stunned silence for about 5 minutes on the couch, he got up, went to his room and came back out with his piggy bank.
He said “Dad, I’m so sorry. PLEASE don’t cancel Christmas. You can have all my money to go buy presents.” Needless to say we ended up having Christmas.....
We still have that couch down in the basement and he still remembers that day....
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All these people going to come out from under the woodwork in late 2021 all ready to go to their favorite places to eat and realize the only place left is the Amazon employee cafeteria(with a State approved menu of course).
Got an air fryer for Christmas and i have a feeling i am about to consume chicken fried in plastic fumes. I’m so freakin excited to try this thing but I’ve heated and washed it so many times now I’ve lost count.
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