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Thread of local businesses that don't survive the coronavirus

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We had friends open a wonderful cafe, very popular. After initial lease was up, the company tripled the lease and wouldn't budge on negotiations.

They closed up shop and the place is still vacant 9 months later.

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38 minutes ago, Deej said:

You're on deck, Draught House,

fuck everything. 

1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

fuck everything. 

Bartenders there who are close friends have told me they are looking at their employment options. Not feeling good about it surviving.

8 minutes ago, Deej said:

Bartenders there who are close friends have told me they are looking at their employment options. Not feeling good about it surviving.

I don't know how the service industry comes back.  So many of these folks aren't going to have jobs when the economy starts to "come back."

10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I don't know how the service industry comes back.

Yeah, we’re all going to come out of this growing our own food and sewing our own clothes. No exceptions.

5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Yeah, we’re all going to come out of this growing our own food and sewing our own clothes. No exceptions.

I said so many of them won't have jobs -- not all of them.  But we're going to lose a LOT of local bars and restaurants.  Enough to put a real dent in the economy, and in service industry jobs.

52 minutes ago, pacman said:

We had friends open a wonderful cafe, very popular. After initial lease was up, the company tripled the lease and wouldn't budge on negotiations.

They closed up shop and the place is still vacant 9 months later.

Some landlords are just plain stoopid.

I can understand being bummed about EyM closing.  It was not my favorite but it was ok. 

Thredgills and Mag were just shitty and/or gross in recent years. The success of both harken back to days when this city was a restaurant wasteland.  Both were terribly overrated.  Sucks for the employees, but the CV was hardly the was the final straw for these two. 

I'm not sure if the Trudy's is going to emerge from bankruptcy, but losing it would be no great loss either.

On ‎4‎/‎19‎/‎2020 at 1:41 PM, Deej said:

It was shit like having dirty flatware and glasses, bringing me the bottom of a pot of coffee ("we have more brewing" um, I would have waited), and shit like that which turned me off. It was like they were rehearsing for an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. When the front of house is nasty, I don't even want to know what's going on in the kitchen.

This is exactly why I never shed a tear when Las Manitas shut down.  There's only so many times you can tolerate dirty silverware and lipstick stained glasses for the sake of average Tex Mex and nostalgia. 

I'm gonna miss the history of the place and those fried green tomatoes... or at least my memories of 'em. 

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30 minutes ago, YChang said:

I'm gonna miss the history of the place and those fried green tomatoes... or at least my memories of 'em. 

It had gone down in quality considerably in recent years, but still....it was a decent spot for a fix of home cooking (I almost always got a mixed veggie plate).  And, we ate there my daughter's last night in the country before she left for college, for a last taste of "home," so a little nostalgia there.  It was also one of the first "nice" restaurants (as in, not GM steakhouse or taco bell) that I ate at when I got to UT in the late 80s -- buddy's parents took us out to eat there.  Sigh.

I get hungry every time someone mentions GM Steakhouse.

5 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

I get hungry every time someone mentions GM Steakhouse.

God I miss that cheeseburger.  Some of the best vitamin G of my life.

Best cheeseburger ever.

 

And fries for the thighs.

 

On 4/19/2020 at 3:56 PM, Anastasis said:

Eva and Carmen are the heroes we need. 

What is their last name? I wonder how much they are expected to pay.

Can we get a well check update on Dan's?

If Katie Congdon is still in charge, they’ll make it.

If Katie Congdon is still in charge, they’ll make it.
I read that as Katie Congdong but that's not what it was so nevermind.
1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

I get hungry every time someone mentions GM Steakhouse.

It opened when I was at UT.

we called it the Grey Meat Steakhouse.

25 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

It opened when I was at UT.

we called it the Grey Meat Steakhouse.

Because it was opened by Confederate veterans?

At that time (1962) the old Confederate Soldiers’ home just off Lake Austin Blvd.was still full of Civil War widows.

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I said so many of them won't have jobs -- not all of them.  But we're going to lose a LOT of local bars and restaurants.  Enough to put a real dent in the economy, and in service industry jobs.

That's a lot of defaulted loans for the banks to handle too.

Plug-

Deep Eddy Cabaret is open tomorrow and for the rest of the week. Drinks to go and food (simple stuff- beans and rice, sandwiches). Hours are limited, 3 to 8. 

13 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

At that time (1962) the old Confederate Soldiers’ home just off Lake Austin Blvd.was still full of Civil War widows.

And it rained pussy every weekend for you, amirite?  

5 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

Threadgill's is done.

 

Shit is fucked!!  Fuck you covid!!!

6 hours ago, Gardner Barnes said:

I can understand being bummed about EyM closing.  It was not my favorite but it was ok. 

Thredgills and Mag were just shitty and/or gross in recent years. The success of both harken back to days when this city was a restaurant wasteland.  Both were terribly overrated.  Sucks for the employees, but the CV was hardly the was the final straw for these two. 

I'm not sure if the Trudy's is going to emerge from bankruptcy, but losing it would be no great loss either.

Trudys was our go-to after games for 27 years, up until 2-3 years ago, Place has completely gone to shit...

Agree, I drink there but haven't eaten Trudy's food in well over a decade.

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We're gonna be left with nothing but fucking subways, applebees and chilis.  JFC. 

6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

We're gonna be left with nothing but fucking subways, applebees and chilis.  JFC. 

And Ascension, Castle Dental, Coventry Homes, and ...

43 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

We're gonna be left with nothing but fucking subways, applebees and chilis.  JFC. 

When it's all over, Taco Bell will be the only one left standing.

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All these places will be taken over by mattress stores. 

52 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

We're gonna be left with nothing but fucking subways, applebees and chilis.  JFC. 

 

1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

All these places will be taken over by mattress stores. 

Either one of these, probably both.

This may well be the death of locally owned restaurants, and the expansion of nothing but national chains to fill the spaces.  Furk.

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

Damn. 

 

Just came here to post that. Sucks. Probably my favorite sandwich place in town. 

When our office was down the street I'd go there at least once a week and sometimes more. 

3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Why is a sandwich shop important?

cuz they're really good?  And local?

On 4/20/2020 at 3:10 PM, Deej said:

This shit will take out what was left of old Austin. Mayor Adler excited about that.

You're on deck, Draught House, Ginny's, Buddy's and C. Hunt's.

Adler's real "Vision Zero" right on schedule.

4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Why is a sandwich shop important?

I'll bet the people who feed their kids by working there can answer this question better than anyone here.

On 4/20/2020 at 5:23 PM, Brisketexan said:

God I miss that cheeseburger.  Some of the best vitamin G of my life.

This!  

Added bonus watching GM workers making Betty Sorority Bowheads who didn't understand the schtick cry the makeup off their faces.

On 4/20/2020 at 4:02 PM, Brisketexan said:

I don't know how the service industry comes back.  So many of these folks aren't going to have jobs when the economy starts to "come back."

Most will leave Austin.

They'll have to.

28 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

 

Either one of these, probably both.

This may well be the death of locally owned restaurants, and the expansion of nothing but national chains to fill the spaces.  Furk.

That's the design...just like 90% of the foods in grocery stores come from four companies...

1 minute ago, Cajun said:

Most will leave Austin.

They'll have to.

Where will they go?

Trudys was our go-to after games for 27 years, up until 2-3 years ago, Place has completely gone to shit...

Last time I went in 2009, the food was awful. Of course it was the place to be in the 90s-very early 00s.
7 minutes ago, LebongJames said:

I hope my favorite sub place, Tucci’s makes it. 

Would you say it’s an important sub place?

13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

cuz they're really good?  And local?

 

11 minutes ago, Cajun said:

I'll bet the people who feed their kids by working there can answer this question better than anyone here.

So which ones are unimportant, thus the need for the qualifier in the tweet?  The ones that aren’t as good, aren’t local, and don’t employ a few people?

Someone up above had put a plug in for Fixe but I will second it. Just had bacon/egg/cheese biscuit sandwiches and then a dozen plain delivered to the casa. So, so tasty.

 

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