Name: The Effect LA Shutdowns Have Had on the Restaurant Industry
Uploaded: 2020-12-24T19:25:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Effect LA Shutdowns Have Had on the Restaurant Industry' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Effect LA Shutdowns Have Had on the Restaurant Industry' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-24. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience we're here to talk about what the fuck is happening to
the restaurant
industry during this pandemic and how crazy it is um you know I I've talked
about this before but
having you guys on so you could say firsthand what it's been like to you and
what this experience
has been like and how poorly it's been handled just I want to give people a
sense of this at
home what it's like from two men who have made their living in the hospitality
and restaurant
industry yeah yeah I mean you want to start Craig well no the funny thing is it's
like we're the rule
followers yeah we're the ones that are used to handling the health department
we're the ones
that are used to you know doing everything that you know from a safety
standpoint right and now
we're the ones that are being crushed or being picked on so to speak by but
that's the way a lot
of people in the industry feel because we're the ones that are being shut down
in a city
where a lot of other businesses are remaining open like malls distribution
centers markets stores I mean
you can go to a mall and go shopping you can go on an airplane from LA to you
know New York
take your mask off and eat and that's okay but you can't eat outdoors in a
restaurant in LA that's
following social distancing all the health guidelines I mean we know our
business and so it's been really
hard since but it started March 15th we we shut down we were then told to put
glass in between our our
boots so we did that we opened for about 10 days we did UV lights in the in the
in the air conditioning
filtration all the stupor absolutely and then we built patios I've personally
spent two hundred fifty
thousand dollars abiding by the rules that were set forth by the state by the
county by the governors by
everybody and and then it just kind of be shut down is really really difficult
and it's not about me and
it's not about my restaurant and it's not about John it's not about it's about
the employees it's about
the dishwashers and the busboys and the servers that live day-to-day on the
money that they make
at the restaurant it's their livelihood it's how they feed their families they
send money back to the
countries that they came from you know this is a larger issue and and the
reason it's a larger issue is
one little restaurant like Craig's we have 90 employees a furniture store might
have five or six
so when you shut down an industry like that it really has a huge economic
impact and then it has a
social impact because we all love to eat it's the one thing we have in common
we like to get together
as people I'm a giant fan of restaurants I mean it's one of my favorite things
to do is to go out to
and living in LA it was so frustrating it was yeah it was bizarre it did it
doesn't make sense now when
you guys get the orders when they tell you what's shut down or what's open is
there anyone you
communicate with there is there anyone that's involved in government you've had
conversations
with no that's the issue that's the biggest issue that we have is they they
refuse to communicate to
any of us and I can't quite figure out why we hear about it on the news we've
we've joined with
about 40 30 40 other like main owners you know that that are all in the area
and I think it's the one
thing that's kind of a silver lining in all this is that we've all teamed up to
kind of like try to
figure out what's going on but we find out about it from the news and we have
to just make these moves
within 24 hours it's it's absolutely absurd and we've reached out I've reached
out to Newsome I've
reached out to Garcetti and they do nothing you know they they put you on phony
task force they lie
you know they they they have no idea how serious this is and I commend you for
having us on no one
else wants to speak about it everyone's too scared of backlash but what
backlash what I don't think
they understand that I think we're crumbling yeah I think people are thinking
it's black and white if
you say anything somewhat negative they view you as you're anti-covid you're
you're wanting to kill
everybody and that's not the case you're a science denier right yeah but that's
not the issue so we're
not denying that there's an issue we're not denying that people are getting
sick we're not denying that
there are we all are in this together so how do you do it well how do you do it
smartly where should
we be spending money a perfect example is they're doing rapid testing in
certain areas so instead
of losing all of this revenue why don't they invest in smart technology that
has rapid testing that
allows people to go to a restaurant get a rapid test you're positive you're
negative and then
you get to go into the restaurant look we did here today exactly rapid testing
today everyone's a
fine where we can sit down and have a conversation have no paranoia yeah you
could do that at a
restaurant you could have the we were I was telling you about stubs barbecue
here in Austin where Dave
Chappelle and I have been doing great establishment we do 400 seats we test
everyone people get their
way in advance they test them they get a COVID test which gives them a nice
peace of mind like oh
great I don't have it then you get to sit down and enjoy a show and the place
is packed and so the
business is making money everyone's having a good time it's it's possible well
that's what that's
what a lot of people are doing in LA right so they're having parties in LA and
a lot of them
are doing rapid testing beforehand so everybody gets a wristband then everybody
in the party knows
that everybody's negative but isn't the mayor threatening to shut those kind of
parties down
he's trying to shut water off like yeah like and by the way he's done it yeah
water and power which
we're living in like a dictatorship I literally feel like LA is like a third
world country right now
never seen anything like this well if you go to Venice or you go to downtown LA
and you see the
encampments it's fucking bananas yeah I mean third world countries wouldn't
allow that shit but it's
worse this is some sort of dictatorship happening that uh we to me is a bigger
picture if if if other
uh governments if other states counties cities see that they can just shut an
industry down so easily
get a name for themselves get their name out there what's stopping everyone
else from doing this
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