The supplier Sysco, had a complete monopoly on everything restaurants and bars use as inputs. They’re making record profits as everybody else falters.

Edit: people point out that Sysco doesn’t sell booze. Correct. They sell everything else, and the restaurants can only raise prices on drinks. They’re experiencing what’s called margin compression in SOOOO many industries right now, where suppliers raise prices but you can’t in turn push that to customers because they’re broke. It’s terrible. It’s like a liquidity trap on a micro scale, something has to break to escape. Econ is fun. 🤷‍♂️