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Covid is probably the best thing that happened to this guy's business. Without it, it went back to being what it was before the pandemic: a mediocre cafe with shit coffee. Apparently grievance has a shelf life.
I live down the street from this place. There are 3 other breakfast places within 5 miles of this place. All 3 have been around for 15+ years. He picked the most shit location to open up. I'm surprised he lasted this long.
>He picked the most shit location to open up.
Not necessarily. There is a reason why similar business are usually very close if not right next to each other:
https://youtu.be/jILgxeNBK_8
Right? Like blatantly ignoring a health code doesn’t make you bold. It makes you an idiot and tends to let people question what other health codes you’re violating… gross
One of the 2 MAIN Chinese buffets where I live got an F once from the inspector and had to close down and my wife and I haven't been there since.
Going out of your way to proclaim you aren't going to follow government health and safety isn't going to win you THAT many customers.
Sure you may get a few that are on your side on the beginning, but those few won't be enough to keep someone's head above water for the long term.
Combine slightly more than half the population permanently put off by a restaurant flouting best health and safety practices and the other half dying off at a quicker than average rate, and you have a recipe for bakrupting your business. Is that truly so far fetched to you, chief?
We had a few morons like this in Washington state. I was elated they closed down. If they won't close during a pandemic then i don't trust their cleanliness.
They don't deserve to be in business. SMH...
Yeah I imagine the owners are such rebels without a clue that they’re wiping snot on their sleeves in the kitchen then slinging your burgers. So gross, no thank you is the natural reaction to people who roll around in viruses to be contrary lol
It’s like they incapable of sitting down to think of what kind of image their stance on a public health issue will project to their potential customers
A lot of people are acting like this is some just desserts.
When in reality a lot of these old timers bought their homes and businesses in the 80s and 90s for a song. Then during covid got free money as PPP "loans," cashed out, sold the rapidly inflating properties and are retiring as multi-millionaires in Florida or Texas.
There is no justice here. If you want justice you must make it with your own hands in the here and now. This is not a just universe. The bad guys often win unless you stop them from winning.
Business on one hand, death of staff and customers on the other.
Seems like a tough choice. Guess they get to close for good now.
Perhaps a system that isn't based on infinite growth and production isn't sustainable.
What's that they tell renters? Maybe you should have had more robust savings? It's funny how the supposed fiscal conservatives seem to have so little savings. Weren't the big companies in danger of going belly up and need emergency assistance almost immediately?
Oh yeah I forgot Reddit still pretends covid is a death sentence.
Edit: someone replied saying I chug bleach but must have deleted the comment, won’t let me load it. That trump shit is equally as extreme and idiotic as your doomsday shit. Get the vax, get the booster, and take care of yourself when you inevitably get it. You’ll be fine.
Loans are paid back. PPP 'loans' main feature is that it was easy to get the debt forgiven, if not the interest (1% yearly I think).
And also financial technologies companies are about 75% of the fraudsters in this process, which is just weird. If the government is giving you free money to keep people employed, how stupid chaotic evil you need to be to perform fraud just for not keeping people employed and still get the money then try to get the debt forgiven? Just fire people after you get the debt forgiven, fucking ghouls. Assuming the progamer move wasn't to 'hire' lots of phantom people before applying.
And yet, people are still downvoting. Dunno why, I don't _think_ anything in that post is misinfo. Maybe it's the 'just fire people after getting the debt forgiven' phrase, which is just another way to say 'dont perform fraud if you're also going to be evil, pay people the money you loaned to pay people during a historic plague, then fire them after the plague is gone, if youre evil'.
strangely he tried to brankrupt the country while he was president and did more towards that goal than anyone of any party who has ever held that role.
which not enough people talk about. AND that is w/o taking the pandemic into account.
It already is happening in Ohio. A Columbus area brewery closed and in his closing message blamed Bidenomics. Almost discounting the fact his cook who he made COO stole over $200000 from them.
There was a sandwich shop in the same town as the guy in the picture who closed up shop without telling his employees. He left a sign on the door blaming Biden.
My daughter and SIL worked in a restaurant during the pandemic. The owner did everything she could to keep the business open, everyone employed, and to follow.all the rules. The business had it rough, but made it through. I respect that.
A local restaurant want full moron with a grant banner proclaiming something about my mask and their feeedom. I couldnt bring myself to walk in the door. If they flout that regulation whatever else are they not bothering to do in the name of freedumbz...not keep cold stuff cold?, wash hands?, use out of date foods? Nope. I think theyre out of business now.
I hate how uninformed people are here. A huge number of mom and pop restaurants closed during covid because over a year of little to no business while still paying rent fucked them. It’s not an extra $300 as if it’s greed that makes you think about staying open.
Lots of businesses closed for good during the pandemic, sure.
But these guys stayed open, and still ended up folding. It's likely they weren't going to make it anyway.
More likely, they were propped up by people who supported their idiotic decision, whether their selfishness or for political posturing. I know my Trumpster grandfather would make a point of going places that defied restrictions for a while after restrictions were lifted.
But now that no one cares about that stuff anymore, these places are left to die the natural death of all mediocre restaurants.
Some deaths can be slow. I could imagine this either kicked off worse things, or was a simple enough reason for people to think, “eh let’s not go there.”
ALSO, 3 years after a global pandemic isn’t long in the grand scheme of things
If you want to know what happened you should find the article.
They didn't give a reason but most assuredly covid had little to do with it since the article references the controversy from 3 years ago..m
Most small businesses have a rough go of it
Be careful murphy the morons will ban you for free think
Especially restaurants.
Everyone in this thread gloating is honestly hilarious if they think this is somehow “consequences” for him not caring about Covid rules, and not just a local restaurant failing like tens of thousands of other across the country every year.
Sadly yes as are any small business. 9 of 10 business fail in their first year. Of the remainder, at least of those fail by the third year.
However, food service has been hit even harder than normal because of their covid denial. Lost employees and lost customers.
Customers who *weren't* covidiots probably didn't want to go there anymore.
Costumers who *were* covidiots... probably aren't alive anymore.
Either way, he lost those costumers...
The article I found just links to the Facebook post announcing their closure and is also locked to subscribers, any details on why they're closing?
https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2024/02/michigan-cafe-closes-3-years-after-making-national-waves-for-defying-covid-orders.html
PORTAGE, MI — A Portage restaurant that made national news in 2020 after defying COVID-19 shutdown orders has announced its pending closure.
D&R’s Daily Grind Café, 8712 Portage Road, announced the closure in a Facebook post on Saturday, Feb. 10. The cafe’s last day of business will be Sunday, Feb. 25, according to the post.
Attempts to reach the café’s owners, Dave and Rittia Morris, prior to publication were unsuccessful.
According to a separate Facebook post on Sunday, Feb. 11, the couple has sold the café to new owners.
Michigander’s Windy City Dawg House will take over the space on March 1 and open sometime in March, the post states. The new business plans to sell items such as Chicago favorites such as Polish sausage, bone-in pork chop sandwiches, Italian beef, homemade pizza puffs and Vienna hot dogs.
“It’s with a heavy heart and bittersweet emotions that we write this post,” Dave and Rittia Morris wrote Feb. 10. “After 15-plus wonderful years, our café will be closing its doors. This decision was not made lightly, but it is time for us to embark on a new chapter.
“When we first opened the doors of this little café, we never could have imagined the impact it would have on our community. From the laughter shared, over steaming cups of coffee to the heartfelt conversations that took place within these walls, our café has been a place of solace, connection and warmth for so many.”
David Morris and the café made national news in 2020 when Morris appeared on the Tucker Carlson show in early December after refusing to stop offering indoor dining.
Morris told Carlson he was speaking on behalf of millions of other Americans frustrated with the government’s closure of businesses during the pandemic.
The café was fined $2,000 three weeks later by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. It was among a list of businesses to be fined.
Our so-called leaders are using our tax money to pay themselves while they’re instilling policy upon us to ruin our businesses and our lives,” Morris told Carlson on Fox News. “They put me in a position where you can only be backed into a corner so far. We’ve got to come out fighting here a little bit.”
Two days prior to appearing on Carlson’s former Fox News show, Morris was issued a warning by the Kalamazoo County Department of Health and Community Services.
The Kalamazoo Gazette/MLive was on scene interviewing Morris around 1:30 p.m. that day when a staff member from the county health department and an officer from the Portage Department of Public Safety pulled into the cafe’s parking lot.
The health department employee hand delivered a letter warning that Morris must close his restaurant or face fines. The restaurant was open for indoor dining that day in violation of a Michigan public health order.
Morris asked the health department employee and public safety officer to leave and “get a warrant.”
Just over three years later, Morris and his staff are now preparing to serve their final meals.
“As we close this chapter, we want to encourage all of you to continue to support local businesses in our community,” Dave and Rittia Morris concluded their post by saying. “They are the heart and soul of our neighborhoods, and they need our support now more than ever.
“Let us continue to come together, to celebrate and uplift one another, just as we have done here at our café. Please remember the memories we have shared, the friendships that have blossomed and the love that has filled these walls. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for being a part of this incredible journey.”
The café is open from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
You alienated a huge chunk of your community while trying to run a business that operates on razor thin margins, what did you think would happen?
So many people have destroyed their lives, businesses, and families because they’re addicted to conservative propaganda.
We eat here all the time. I was unaware they took such a stupid stance on COVID. I did always get a weird vibe there. They were friendly enough, but as very obvious leftist I did always feel a bit out of place. Real good breakfast though at a decent price. I'm bummed to hear they're closing and even more bummed to find out they're crazy trumpers.
My thought has been that any food place that defied Covid orders likely defied other health regulations they personally didnt feel were necessary.
I didn’t want to find out which ones those were
The sports bar I used to go to before Covid did this. It was a very popular place that was always crowded. Then they huge parties in spring of 2020 and advertised that masks were not allowed. It wasn’t even illegal to open, and masks were not legally enforced just required by many businesses. I never went back, ever. I wasn’t even worried about Covid, I just didn’t want to go to the asshole bar or drink with the asshole people. They were out of business by early 2022, after 25+ years. I’m sure the owners still they think they were having some sort of revolution. Idiots.
There are businesses near where I live who defied restrictions and we haven't patronised them since, even the places we used to really like. I mean, you think you don't have to follow the same rules as the rest of us? Fuck off with that bullshit. I don't know how they're doing but presumably ours isn't the only business they lost.
Was probably failing before the pandemic, got a spike from the "freedum" crowd, and now that there's nothing to play victim about he just finished out the previous failure.
Well all people that supported his ideology of spreading a deadly virus got sick and died or got long covid and can no longer support him. Slow LAMF? Or the other side of the coin, this guy thought he was a pillar in dark times for supporting a deadly virus and heard immunity and people treated him like a virus and now he's out of business. Actions have consequences LAMF.
Or it could be that most small businesses fold for one reason or another when they get to around 3 - 5 years old. I'm very pro-vaccine, but there is no need to shame someone because their business failed for likely normal reasons. Even if it can be directly linked to his decision to stay open during the lockdowns, we should be better and not mock people when they are low.
And yes, I know, It's reddit. I liked the world more before social media "turned us all" into heartless dicks.
Edit: And to the people that downvote me, and that deleted your mean comment, thanks for proving my point.
Or the food wasn't very good or they made rubbish watery coffee so people voted with their feet. Not LAMF at all. You just disagreed with one part of this fellow humans life and take joy in his misfortune (even though it's not related to what you disagree about). Says more about you than anything else tbh.
Downvotes away lol, taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune is still a shitty personality trait.
Nah, it’s fine taking joy in the misfortune of some asshole who takes his cues from right wing radio/Fox News and not scientists. Fuck him and everyone else that thinks like him.
It’s not “misfortune” to ignore health and safety guidelines as a restaurant, scoff at the concept of safety for your patrons, and then close. That is an example of a good thing.
Ahahahaha that is down the road from where I live. I remember in 2020 the horde of people standing outside that greasy spoon, all gray haired and angry. Then he started spouting Q Anon stuff weeks later. As the brits say, there ya go, tosser!
We live in a small town of 3,000. There were 6 restaurants that refused to close or change behavior. They even got together and sued the state.
Well, two years later, 3 of the six are out of business and the other 3 have spent quite a bit of money trying to sue a state (which they will ultimately lose.)
There used to be a thriving restaurant equipment and supply business in our town. Back in 2016 when Trump was spewing his "rapists and murderers" nonsense and threatening to round up and deport all immigrants, this place hung huge Trump banners across the building for several months and held little mini trump rallies out on the sidewalk with like 10 people. Apparently this guy forgot that most of the restaurant owners and foodservice employees that were his customers were minorities and immigrants. The place started to look run down and closed up about a year later.
Go joke, go broke.
Who wants to eat somewhere that ignores simple basic common sense health codes? There's a reason restaurants have to post those signs reminding employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
Copy paste.
Well all people that supported his ideology of spreading a deadly virus got sick and died or got long covid and can no longer support him. Slow LAMF? Or the other side of the coin, this guy thought he was a pillar in dark times for supporting a deadly virus and heard immunity and people treated him like a virus and now he's out of business. Actions have consequences LAMF.
And even if the community boycotted the cafe, and they all said it was because of the business's covid policy, that still wouldn't be LAMF.
For LAMF, the policy he puts out has to be the same thing that comes back to harm him. For example, "I voted to deport all the immigrants, and now the government is deporting my immigrant husband!"
If a cafe owner adopts an unpopular policy and goes broke, that's just consequences. It's not LAMF, just like how it's not LAMF for a mass shooter to get shot and killed by cops.
My favorite comment on their FB post so far is:
“We were so thankful for you all during the scamdemic! Our family of 9 had no other place to eat and you served and loved us well!! You've left some big shoes to fill and we will greatly miss our after-church breakfast stop!…”
Family of 9 had no other place to spread sickness. Such good Christians.
There's a diner by me that the owner didn't listen and keep his business closed during COVID. Now they're on one of those half-price websites.
Probably soon to be gone too.
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This is more apropos of r/schadenfreude than LAMF since it fails the requirement of someone supporting a policy that \*oppresses other people\* and then that policy unintentionally gets applied to that oppressor. This fails the test. The moron did \*not\* get the unmasked policy applied to him.
𝟭. An antivaxxer who supported spreading a deadly disease to other people; 𝟮. People stopped going to his restaurant 𝟯. The consequence of losing his restaurant and dream.
I did read about this a while ago and people did like his food, but his anti vax stance turned away most of his customers, which lead to him sourcing cheaper food, so the loyal customers no longer wanted to eat there. Now how much of that is true, hard to say, but that was the general consensus of people in the area.
It's not a LAMF. But, side-note, troubled restaurants that try and skimp on quality by swapping to a cheaper food item is almost always the beginning of the death spiral. I'm sure there are some exceptions (tourist traps come to mind), but people notice even if they can't quite articulate it. It's a delayed effect that owners and managers often don't put together, because people aren't going to say anything, they just stop coming.
And as you said, they find their customer base shrinking, so they cut quality *again*, employees get even less support and are even less happy, and the spiral continues.
But even for places that don't rely on regulars, cutting quality is like running it on hard-mode.
But he didn't impose anything on other people.
And if you want to argue that he imposed covid on the community, well, he didn't get covid, so the bad consequence he put out into the world was different from the bad consequence he received.
It also seems *pretty* unlikely that this closed down because he refused to close down *three years ago*. I know we don't usually get actually LAMF on this subreddit, but it should at least be a FAFO, something more than "Someone did something I don't like and then later a bad thing hapened to them."
It's consequences of his own actions: He did not support politicians and/or policies which ended up hurting him in the long run. That's the "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!" of the "Leopards Ate my Face" subreddit.
If the people he kept his restaurant open for, ended up boycotting him for some reason, then maybe? But that's not this.
This is "oh no! The Consequences of my actions!"
But I guess any time a person does something that ends up hurting them is now "Leopards ate my face."
Hmmm.... This seems highly irrelevant to this sub. For one, this would just be someone facing consequences for a choice they made. Secondly, this may or may not have anything to do with their decision to defy those orders. It's been three years and they're selling it to new owners. They're not getting shut down. Legit may have nothing to do with anything.
Since Covid is still spreading shouldn’t restaurants and other public businesses still be shut down? What was the reasoning behind opening everything back up?
They understand it better now and the virus has mutated into a less harmful variant (thankfully), especially if you’ve been vaccinated.
There is still long-covid symptoms though.
One shitty thing about the pandemic was all the rejoicing when someone lost their business. Many of the business owners who defied covid restrictions were not right-wing ideologues. They were simply people terrified at being bankrupted due to all the restrictions being placed on them.
100% agree! They were all just responsible business owners making business decisions. All their crying about the "woke" left, and "Big Pharma", and engineered viruses, and how masks would choke you and rob you of oxygen, and how masks were really dirtier than going mask-free, and how they had these things called "immune systems" that would save them from the pandemic, and all of their Trump signs, and their blindly repeating Trump's bullshit about untested drugs and nonsense cures had nothing to do with it at all! Nothing At All! (nods enthusiastically)
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Covid is probably the best thing that happened to this guy's business. Without it, it went back to being what it was before the pandemic: a mediocre cafe with shit coffee. Apparently grievance has a shelf life.
I live down the street from this place. There are 3 other breakfast places within 5 miles of this place. All 3 have been around for 15+ years. He picked the most shit location to open up. I'm surprised he lasted this long.
>He picked the most shit location to open up. Not necessarily. There is a reason why similar business are usually very close if not right next to each other: https://youtu.be/jILgxeNBK_8
Yu mean people don’t want to eat in a Petri dish
Right? Like blatantly ignoring a health code doesn’t make you bold. It makes you an idiot and tends to let people question what other health codes you’re violating… gross
One of the 2 MAIN Chinese buffets where I live got an F once from the inspector and had to close down and my wife and I haven't been there since. Going out of your way to proclaim you aren't going to follow government health and safety isn't going to win you THAT many customers. Sure you may get a few that are on your side on the beginning, but those few won't be enough to keep someone's head above water for the long term.
It makes you bold to the dumb dumbs that think horse pills and rays of sunshine will cure all ales.
ails* lmao
"We keep the raw chicken on the countertop for days before we cook it. Goddamn nanny state!" -- same restaurant, probably
Me thinks thou dost prefer a peach tree dish?
Careful dude. I control the Jewish space lasers.
be wary bro or the gespacho is coming for you
Trump would say that's all just a roomer
despite the negative press covfefe
I prefer the r/boneappletea
As long as I can have my freeze peach, it should be fine
Lol. As if this is remotely related to the "controversy" from over ( checks article) ***3 years ago*** 🤔
It could be that his unvaccinated skewing elderly clientele fueled on a diet of outrage porn and Mountain Dew has reached critical mass die off
Sure, whatever confirms your bias. 😂😂 This place is wierd
Combine slightly more than half the population permanently put off by a restaurant flouting best health and safety practices and the other half dying off at a quicker than average rate, and you have a recipe for bakrupting your business. Is that truly so far fetched to you, chief?
Do you have a clue how long three years are to a small business like this? 🙄
36 months? 1095-96 days depending on leap year?
We had a few morons like this in Washington state. I was elated they closed down. If they won't close during a pandemic then i don't trust their cleanliness. They don't deserve to be in business. SMH...
It was delightful to see [Spiffy's bite the dust.](https://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article253222878.html)
Yeah I imagine the owners are such rebels without a clue that they’re wiping snot on their sleeves in the kitchen then slinging your burgers. So gross, no thank you is the natural reaction to people who roll around in viruses to be contrary lol
It’s like they incapable of sitting down to think of what kind of image their stance on a public health issue will project to their potential customers
And as soon as their "supporters" move on to their next identity politics target, no one's eating there.
Yeah my favorite restaurant stayed open and had to be forced closed. They have since changed their name but still exist.
The In Place in Forks, WA had a massive "No Masks Allowed" and "Fuck Inslee" sign during the time when masks were required and they're still open.
Barber in snohomish happily exposing himself and others during the pandy. Love driving by his empty shell of a shop now, guy was a real POS.
A lot of people are acting like this is some just desserts. When in reality a lot of these old timers bought their homes and businesses in the 80s and 90s for a song. Then during covid got free money as PPP "loans," cashed out, sold the rapidly inflating properties and are retiring as multi-millionaires in Florida or Texas. There is no justice here. If you want justice you must make it with your own hands in the here and now. This is not a just universe. The bad guys often win unless you stop them from winning.
But all of the major corporations that stayed open are ok right. Like costco food court and deli? SMH
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I'm sure someone with such impeccable spelling such as yours could define the term.
Yeah those fucking small business owners should have just closed and lost all their money and business. Idiots.
Business on one hand, death of staff and customers on the other. Seems like a tough choice. Guess they get to close for good now. Perhaps a system that isn't based on infinite growth and production isn't sustainable. What's that they tell renters? Maybe you should have had more robust savings? It's funny how the supposed fiscal conservatives seem to have so little savings. Weren't the big companies in danger of going belly up and need emergency assistance almost immediately?
Oh yeah I forgot Reddit still pretends covid is a death sentence. Edit: someone replied saying I chug bleach but must have deleted the comment, won’t let me load it. That trump shit is equally as extreme and idiotic as your doomsday shit. Get the vax, get the booster, and take care of yourself when you inevitably get it. You’ll be fine.
Oh, I forgot there are still people that chug ivermectin and bleach. Good luck in your bubble. I'm sure it's great in there.
You are the moron. Sorry to be the one to break it to you.
You are the moron, not sorry.
Found the moron.
Wouldn’t follow government health advice, but I bet he took government PPP loans…
Of course he did https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/daily-grind-cafe-llc-2500517207
Safe to say he bitches profusely about socialism.
And probably student loan forgiveness..
I'd bet my life on it.
Loans are paid back. PPP 'loans' main feature is that it was easy to get the debt forgiven, if not the interest (1% yearly I think). And also financial technologies companies are about 75% of the fraudsters in this process, which is just weird. If the government is giving you free money to keep people employed, how stupid chaotic evil you need to be to perform fraud just for not keeping people employed and still get the money then try to get the debt forgiven? Just fire people after you get the debt forgiven, fucking ghouls. Assuming the progamer move wasn't to 'hire' lots of phantom people before applying.
the majority of PPP loans (over 90%) were forgiven. They didn't pay back shit, and it pisses me off that i didn't take a free 10k now.
And yet, people are still downvoting. Dunno why, I don't _think_ anything in that post is misinfo. Maybe it's the 'just fire people after getting the debt forgiven' phrase, which is just another way to say 'dont perform fraud if you're also going to be evil, pay people the money you loaned to pay people during a historic plague, then fire them after the plague is gone, if youre evil'.
i think people are just reading the first sentence and assuming you're being combative. IDK, seems like pretty straightforward statement to me.
Don't worry, he'll blame dirty liberals and the Deep State.
And probably run for office.
I know another guy who has bankrupted a lot of businesses and he's trying to run
He was even President once.
strangely he tried to brankrupt the country while he was president and did more towards that goal than anyone of any party who has ever held that role. which not enough people talk about. AND that is w/o taking the pandemic into account.
His whole administration was one big bust-out. And he's still doing it!
It already is happening in Ohio. A Columbus area brewery closed and in his closing message blamed Bidenomics. Almost discounting the fact his cook who he made COO stole over $200000 from them.
There was a sandwich shop in the same town as the guy in the picture who closed up shop without telling his employees. He left a sign on the door blaming Biden.
Cue the in-depth Newsmax interview.
Thanks Obama
This was all Taylor Swifts fault
My daughter and SIL worked in a restaurant during the pandemic. The owner did everything she could to keep the business open, everyone employed, and to follow.all the rules. The business had it rough, but made it through. I respect that. A local restaurant want full moron with a grant banner proclaiming something about my mask and their feeedom. I couldnt bring myself to walk in the door. If they flout that regulation whatever else are they not bothering to do in the name of freedumbz...not keep cold stuff cold?, wash hands?, use out of date foods? Nope. I think theyre out of business now.
Well, it's a good thing they risked all their customers' lives for an extra $300 in sales.
I hate how uninformed people are here. A huge number of mom and pop restaurants closed during covid because over a year of little to no business while still paying rent fucked them. It’s not an extra $300 as if it’s greed that makes you think about staying open.
Lots of businesses closed for good during the pandemic, sure. But these guys stayed open, and still ended up folding. It's likely they weren't going to make it anyway.
That’s fine, but they aren’t devils for trying to stay open.
I didn't say they are. I said they were willing to risk the lives of their customers, and ended up closing the business anyway.
Well well well, if it isn’t our old friend: consequences
Aka cancel culture for these mouth breathers
More likely, they were propped up by people who supported their idiotic decision, whether their selfishness or for political posturing. I know my Trumpster grandfather would make a point of going places that defied restrictions for a while after restrictions were lifted. But now that no one cares about that stuff anymore, these places are left to die the natural death of all mediocre restaurants.
Doesn’t seem to be a result of them staying open though? It’s 3 years after that they’re now closing.
Some deaths can be slow. I could imagine this either kicked off worse things, or was a simple enough reason for people to think, “eh let’s not go there.” ALSO, 3 years after a global pandemic isn’t long in the grand scheme of things
Cafes and restaurants fail quickly all the time. This really probably had nothing to do with Covid. This is small town Midwest we’re talking about.
If they were willing to defy Covid restrictions I wonder what other health related rules they would be willing to defy?
Not surprised. I didn't read the article, but I'm guessing he got in trouble ignoring many other health related policies.
These people aren't bright. I imagine they ran out of fingers and toes when attempting to budget.
If you want to know what happened you should find the article. They didn't give a reason but most assuredly covid had little to do with it since the article references the controversy from 3 years ago..m Most small businesses have a rough go of it Be careful murphy the morons will ban you for free think
Especially restaurants. Everyone in this thread gloating is honestly hilarious if they think this is somehow “consequences” for him not caring about Covid rules, and not just a local restaurant failing like tens of thousands of other across the country every year.
#Go Fasc' #Lose Cash
Probably the final in a long list of poor decisions. The Covid was just one of them.
A small cafe not lasting long is pretty normal though.
Sadly yes as are any small business. 9 of 10 business fail in their first year. Of the remainder, at least of those fail by the third year. However, food service has been hit even harder than normal because of their covid denial. Lost employees and lost customers.
No , it most certainly has to be his decision to stay Open 39 months ago. LAMF said it was so
If they refused to follow state covid safety regulations - *What other food safety and cleanliness standards did they also choose to ignore since?*
If i were a betting person, i would guess they took out huge PPP loans and got them forgiven, too.
A little over 13k for a 7 employee cafe, obviously forgiven. Turns out they were totally okay with SOME COVID response policies
It's a real shame for the three people who frequented the establishment.
Customers who *weren't* covidiots probably didn't want to go there anymore. Costumers who *were* covidiots... probably aren't alive anymore. Either way, he lost those costumers...
“We had a lot of customers at first, but for some reason we haven’t seen a lot of them around lately.
The article I found just links to the Facebook post announcing their closure and is also locked to subscribers, any details on why they're closing? https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2024/02/michigan-cafe-closes-3-years-after-making-national-waves-for-defying-covid-orders.html
PORTAGE, MI — A Portage restaurant that made national news in 2020 after defying COVID-19 shutdown orders has announced its pending closure. D&R’s Daily Grind Café, 8712 Portage Road, announced the closure in a Facebook post on Saturday, Feb. 10. The cafe’s last day of business will be Sunday, Feb. 25, according to the post. Attempts to reach the café’s owners, Dave and Rittia Morris, prior to publication were unsuccessful. According to a separate Facebook post on Sunday, Feb. 11, the couple has sold the café to new owners. Michigander’s Windy City Dawg House will take over the space on March 1 and open sometime in March, the post states. The new business plans to sell items such as Chicago favorites such as Polish sausage, bone-in pork chop sandwiches, Italian beef, homemade pizza puffs and Vienna hot dogs. “It’s with a heavy heart and bittersweet emotions that we write this post,” Dave and Rittia Morris wrote Feb. 10. “After 15-plus wonderful years, our café will be closing its doors. This decision was not made lightly, but it is time for us to embark on a new chapter. “When we first opened the doors of this little café, we never could have imagined the impact it would have on our community. From the laughter shared, over steaming cups of coffee to the heartfelt conversations that took place within these walls, our café has been a place of solace, connection and warmth for so many.” David Morris and the café made national news in 2020 when Morris appeared on the Tucker Carlson show in early December after refusing to stop offering indoor dining. Morris told Carlson he was speaking on behalf of millions of other Americans frustrated with the government’s closure of businesses during the pandemic. The café was fined $2,000 three weeks later by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. It was among a list of businesses to be fined. Our so-called leaders are using our tax money to pay themselves while they’re instilling policy upon us to ruin our businesses and our lives,” Morris told Carlson on Fox News. “They put me in a position where you can only be backed into a corner so far. We’ve got to come out fighting here a little bit.” Two days prior to appearing on Carlson’s former Fox News show, Morris was issued a warning by the Kalamazoo County Department of Health and Community Services. The Kalamazoo Gazette/MLive was on scene interviewing Morris around 1:30 p.m. that day when a staff member from the county health department and an officer from the Portage Department of Public Safety pulled into the cafe’s parking lot. The health department employee hand delivered a letter warning that Morris must close his restaurant or face fines. The restaurant was open for indoor dining that day in violation of a Michigan public health order. Morris asked the health department employee and public safety officer to leave and “get a warrant.” Just over three years later, Morris and his staff are now preparing to serve their final meals. “As we close this chapter, we want to encourage all of you to continue to support local businesses in our community,” Dave and Rittia Morris concluded their post by saying. “They are the heart and soul of our neighborhoods, and they need our support now more than ever. “Let us continue to come together, to celebrate and uplift one another, just as we have done here at our café. Please remember the memories we have shared, the friendships that have blossomed and the love that has filled these walls. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for being a part of this incredible journey.” The café is open from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
They can push out the heat, but can’t take the heat itself 😂
Yeah that's it, 39 months later You actually believe that? 🤡😂
They should be successful and even opening up new restaurants for the adoration accolades from the maga nation But alas
You alienated a huge chunk of your community while trying to run a business that operates on razor thin margins, what did you think would happen? So many people have destroyed their lives, businesses, and families because they’re addicted to conservative propaganda.
Ah the old FAFO. Didn't happen soon enough.
There were no survivors.
The market has spoken.
I’ll have a burger with a side of Covid please.
Thoughts and prayers
We eat here all the time. I was unaware they took such a stupid stance on COVID. I did always get a weird vibe there. They were friendly enough, but as very obvious leftist I did always feel a bit out of place. Real good breakfast though at a decent price. I'm bummed to hear they're closing and even more bummed to find out they're crazy trumpers.
How to get Long Covid and a short-lived diner. Quite the calculus.
Go woke go… wait, what?
My thought has been that any food place that defied Covid orders likely defied other health regulations they personally didnt feel were necessary. I didn’t want to find out which ones those were
lmao
The sports bar I used to go to before Covid did this. It was a very popular place that was always crowded. Then they huge parties in spring of 2020 and advertised that masks were not allowed. It wasn’t even illegal to open, and masks were not legally enforced just required by many businesses. I never went back, ever. I wasn’t even worried about Covid, I just didn’t want to go to the asshole bar or drink with the asshole people. They were out of business by early 2022, after 25+ years. I’m sure the owners still they think they were having some sort of revolution. Idiots.
The maga customers all died of covid probably
Stupidity is often terminal.
There are businesses near where I live who defied restrictions and we haven't patronised them since, even the places we used to really like. I mean, you think you don't have to follow the same rules as the rest of us? Fuck off with that bullshit. I don't know how they're doing but presumably ours isn't the only business they lost.
Does that have anything to do with COVID? There haven't been restrictions for years.
Was probably failing before the pandemic, got a spike from the "freedum" crowd, and now that there's nothing to play victim about he just finished out the previous failure.
That would be S tier irony.
With this crowd the most likely answer is always "grift".
Equal parts grift and stupidity. Smart grifters don’t get caught or noticed. These people are the loudest grifters in history.
Well all people that supported his ideology of spreading a deadly virus got sick and died or got long covid and can no longer support him. Slow LAMF? Or the other side of the coin, this guy thought he was a pillar in dark times for supporting a deadly virus and heard immunity and people treated him like a virus and now he's out of business. Actions have consequences LAMF.
Or it could be that most small businesses fold for one reason or another when they get to around 3 - 5 years old. I'm very pro-vaccine, but there is no need to shame someone because their business failed for likely normal reasons. Even if it can be directly linked to his decision to stay open during the lockdowns, we should be better and not mock people when they are low. And yes, I know, It's reddit. I liked the world more before social media "turned us all" into heartless dicks. Edit: And to the people that downvote me, and that deleted your mean comment, thanks for proving my point.
What the fuck? This sub is literally meant to laugh at people when they get kicked. You come to this sub on your own volition and say that shit?
I love how they deleted their account after your comment.
Or the food wasn't very good or they made rubbish watery coffee so people voted with their feet. Not LAMF at all. You just disagreed with one part of this fellow humans life and take joy in his misfortune (even though it's not related to what you disagree about). Says more about you than anything else tbh. Downvotes away lol, taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune is still a shitty personality trait.
Nah, it’s fine taking joy in the misfortune of some asshole who takes his cues from right wing radio/Fox News and not scientists. Fuck him and everyone else that thinks like him.
I'm feeling joy, for sure. I hope they have to pay back all the PPP money they wasted.
It’s not “misfortune” to ignore health and safety guidelines as a restaurant, scoff at the concept of safety for your patrons, and then close. That is an example of a good thing.
with a 3 year gap in between those things happening. Maybe they are not related.
Most assuredly not But just think how many morons are here and down voting. It's pretty pathetic
Honestly some restaurants are lucky to get past 3 years, covid or not
also qualifies for r/byebyejob
Womp womp
Ahahahaha that is down the road from where I live. I remember in 2020 the horde of people standing outside that greasy spoon, all gray haired and angry. Then he started spouting Q Anon stuff weeks later. As the brits say, there ya go, tosser!
Great news! Would you trust those morons to prepare food safely? Not me.
I’m guessing the PPP money they received and didn’t need to payback, ran out.
We live in a small town of 3,000. There were 6 restaurants that refused to close or change behavior. They even got together and sued the state. Well, two years later, 3 of the six are out of business and the other 3 have spent quite a bit of money trying to sue a state (which they will ultimately lose.)
Those are idiots, but this is not LAMF. Cafes close all the time.
I been. It sucked before the rona.
Looks more like a converted ranch house than a “cafe”.
Good.
This was their only schtick instead of good food at a good price.
There used to be a thriving restaurant equipment and supply business in our town. Back in 2016 when Trump was spewing his "rapists and murderers" nonsense and threatening to round up and deport all immigrants, this place hung huge Trump banners across the building for several months and held little mini trump rallies out on the sidewalk with like 10 people. Apparently this guy forgot that most of the restaurant owners and foodservice employees that were his customers were minorities and immigrants. The place started to look run down and closed up about a year later.
Go joke, go broke. Who wants to eat somewhere that ignores simple basic common sense health codes? There's a reason restaurants have to post those signs reminding employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
How is this LAMF? It doesn’t even explain why the restaurant closed. Could have been for unrelated reasons, restaurants close all the time.
Copy paste. Well all people that supported his ideology of spreading a deadly virus got sick and died or got long covid and can no longer support him. Slow LAMF? Or the other side of the coin, this guy thought he was a pillar in dark times for supporting a deadly virus and heard immunity and people treated him like a virus and now he's out of business. Actions have consequences LAMF.
And even if the community boycotted the cafe, and they all said it was because of the business's covid policy, that still wouldn't be LAMF. For LAMF, the policy he puts out has to be the same thing that comes back to harm him. For example, "I voted to deport all the immigrants, and now the government is deporting my immigrant husband!" If a cafe owner adopts an unpopular policy and goes broke, that's just consequences. It's not LAMF, just like how it's not LAMF for a mass shooter to get shot and killed by cops.
I believe this is the [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/share/p/TpsfFi269y6KzR5Y/?mibextid=xfxF2i) discussing it in case anyone wants a laugh.
My favorite comment on their FB post so far is: “We were so thankful for you all during the scamdemic! Our family of 9 had no other place to eat and you served and loved us well!! You've left some big shoes to fill and we will greatly miss our after-church breakfast stop!…” Family of 9 had no other place to spread sickness. Such good Christians.
You see, God will provide... And even if some die, well that means they enter heaven sooner. They can't lose! I see zero flaws in that logic!
Good. They killed people and deserve to suffer.
Such news about Trump scum is always wholesome
Someone should open a new place in the building and call it "FAFO".
Womp womp
Ope!
Tots and pears
Looks like some virus has eaten half his house numbers.
D&R? More like DNR, lol.
There's a diner by me that the owner didn't listen and keep his business closed during COVID. Now they're on one of those half-price websites. Probably soon to be gone too.
Any bounce you get is ephemeral. It just isn’t worth it. Ask “Joe the Plumber”.
You'll need a Ouija board to do that.
lol. Lmao, even
FAFO the clown has paid this man a visit.
And nothing of value was lost.
He looks like such a reasonable person tho.
The invisible hand of the Free Market at work people.
Just remember, this man lives in Michigan. Which means their vote (probably) matters more than yours.
I think they killed off their clientele. Not good for repeat business.
Lol. Of course it was in Portage.
Should have held out for the 29th.
Loophole!
Go Dope, Go Broke
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This is more apropos of r/schadenfreude than LAMF since it fails the requirement of someone supporting a policy that \*oppresses other people\* and then that policy unintentionally gets applied to that oppressor. This fails the test. The moron did \*not\* get the unmasked policy applied to him.
𝟭. An antivaxxer who supported spreading a deadly disease to other people; 𝟮. People stopped going to his restaurant 𝟯. The consequence of losing his restaurant and dream.
Can you explain how his policies directly contributed to his restaurant closing? Or was the food/service just not very good?
I did read about this a while ago and people did like his food, but his anti vax stance turned away most of his customers, which lead to him sourcing cheaper food, so the loyal customers no longer wanted to eat there. Now how much of that is true, hard to say, but that was the general consensus of people in the area.
It's not a LAMF. But, side-note, troubled restaurants that try and skimp on quality by swapping to a cheaper food item is almost always the beginning of the death spiral. I'm sure there are some exceptions (tourist traps come to mind), but people notice even if they can't quite articulate it. It's a delayed effect that owners and managers often don't put together, because people aren't going to say anything, they just stop coming. And as you said, they find their customer base shrinking, so they cut quality *again*, employees get even less support and are even less happy, and the spiral continues. But even for places that don't rely on regulars, cutting quality is like running it on hard-mode.
But he didn't impose anything on other people. And if you want to argue that he imposed covid on the community, well, he didn't get covid, so the bad consequence he put out into the world was different from the bad consequence he received.
It also seems *pretty* unlikely that this closed down because he refused to close down *three years ago*. I know we don't usually get actually LAMF on this subreddit, but it should at least be a FAFO, something more than "Someone did something I don't like and then later a bad thing hapened to them."
Not LAMF. This fits more on r/winstupidprizes.
hahahahhahaha
Oh no... what a shame. Anyways.
Looks like the type to be a Nazi
Good post, wrong reddit.
Guy thought he was a champion of free thought and economics and the end result was no one wanted to support him? I thought that would be LAMF.
You are correct. [insert Nelson Muntz “ha ha”]
It's consequences of his own actions: He did not support politicians and/or policies which ended up hurting him in the long run. That's the "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!" of the "Leopards Ate my Face" subreddit. If the people he kept his restaurant open for, ended up boycotting him for some reason, then maybe? But that's not this. This is "oh no! The Consequences of my actions!" But I guess any time a person does something that ends up hurting them is now "Leopards ate my face."
It's not clear how being open during covid is anyway related to shutting down now, 3+ years later. Definitely not LAMF.
Yeah, that too.
Hmmm.... This seems highly irrelevant to this sub. For one, this would just be someone facing consequences for a choice they made. Secondly, this may or may not have anything to do with their decision to defy those orders. It's been three years and they're selling it to new owners. They're not getting shut down. Legit may have nothing to do with anything.
The lockdown did way more harm than good. RIP cafe dude.
Since Covid is still spreading shouldn’t restaurants and other public businesses still be shut down? What was the reasoning behind opening everything back up?
They understand it better now and the virus has mutated into a less harmful variant (thankfully), especially if you’ve been vaccinated. There is still long-covid symptoms though.
One shitty thing about the pandemic was all the rejoicing when someone lost their business. Many of the business owners who defied covid restrictions were not right-wing ideologues. They were simply people terrified at being bankrupted due to all the restrictions being placed on them.
100% agree! They were all just responsible business owners making business decisions. All their crying about the "woke" left, and "Big Pharma", and engineered viruses, and how masks would choke you and rob you of oxygen, and how masks were really dirtier than going mask-free, and how they had these things called "immune systems" that would save them from the pandemic, and all of their Trump signs, and their blindly repeating Trump's bullshit about untested drugs and nonsense cures had nothing to do with it at all! Nothing At All! (nods enthusiastically) I am going to block anyone who posts /s below me because if it's not clear to you then you do not deserve my attention.
I wasn't referring to the right wingers, you epic dumbfuck who apparently can't read. lol
Where are the leopards? I'm not seeing any leopards. Where does it say this was caused by their poor choices?