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Big Blue Democrat Cities... Failing In Every Metric...


Restaurants In Lockdown-Loving, High-Crime Cities Still Reeling While
Others Thrive

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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/restaurants-deep-blue-cities-starved-diners-florida-feasting

More than two and a half years after the Covid-19 pandemic reached
America, there's a enormous divide among America's restaurant markets.
In deep-blue cities that embraced lockdowns, the number of diners is
still far below pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, restaurant businesses
are prospering in states that were quickest to reject Covidian
authoritarianism.

That's the finding of a Fox News report centered on data from
OpenTable, a company that helps more than 60,000 restaurants worldwide
manage reservations, payments and operations.

Civil unrest and crime have likely played a defining role too. It's
probably no coincidence that the worst-performing city -- Minneapolis
-- was at the epicenter of the George Floyd riots that ravaged
deep-blue cities. Strikingly, the number of average daily diners in
Minneapolis is still less than half what the city enjoyed in
pre-Covid, pre-Floyd 2019.

    "We’re just getting killed in Minneapolis," restauranteur Greg
Urban told Fox News. "People don’t feel safe. They don’t feel safe
coming to Minneapolis. It’s a public safety issue right now."

Happily, Urban is geographically -- and politically -- diversified,
with nightspots in Austin, Pensacola and Lakeland, Florida too.

The 10 worst cities represent a who's who of cringe-inducing,
high-crime, vaccination-forcing, mask-adoring metropolises, with the
likes of San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Philadelphia rounding
out the top five losers.

Meanwhile, the list of the 10 best-performing restaurant cities
includes four from Florida which, under Governor DeSantis, helped set
an example that emboldened other red-state governors to shift policies
and begin rising out of the depths of public health madness.
Underscoring a clear Sunbelt trend, Texas and Arizona placed two
cities apiece.
10 Worst Lockdown-Hammered Restaurant Cities (Change in Daily Diners:
July 2022 vs July 2019)

    Minneapolis (-54.3%)
    San Francisco (-45.9%)
    Portland (-45.2%)
    Seattle (-40.8%)
    Philadelphia (-39.2%)
    New York (-37.9%)
    St. Louis (-28.2%)
    Washington, DC (-27.3%)
    Baltimore (-24.9%)
    Chicago (-22.8%)

10 Best-Performing Restaurant Cities (Change in Daily Diners: July
2022 vs July 2019)

    Las Vegas (+35.7%)
    Fort Lauderdale (+34.0%)
    Miami (+32.8%)
    Austin (+27.3%)
    Naples (+25.4%)
    Tampa (+22.3%)
    Nashville (19.2%)
    San Antonio (+18.6%)
    Scottsdale (+18.0%)
    Phoenix (+14.3%)

Source: OpenTable via Fox News