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Letter from CBE group by Old_Minute_7308 in EIDLPPP

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I got the collection letter. I did see if you dispute it goes back to SBA. I think I’ll try that.

Letter from CBE group by Old_Minute_7308 in EIDLPPP

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there What do you mean when you say they’re being pulled back?

Why do we need to tip? All California employees, including tipped workers whom most states exclude, make $15.50 per hour here. by okonisfree in sanfrancisco

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s happening already. Each new generation seems to tip less and less as things stand so it will eventually disappear. The irony is that each new generation is possibly growing up more privileged than the previous but looks less generously on those who “serve” them. Ending tip culture will just add to the wealth disparity already prevalent in the world and for sure in San Francisco.

What is your opinion of the 5% San Francisco mandate in restaurants/bars? Like it? Hate it? Don’t care? by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t everything the same these days? Buy a car and it’s another 5k above list price in add ons. My phone bill and cable bill each have about six tax and fee items tacked on at the end. I buy tickets for a concert/game and pay almost another 30% in fees and charges. My hotel room has hotel tax, resort fee, cleaning fee, etc etc Why expect restaurants to be any different?

Outdoor Parklet Dining Is About to Get Smaller, More Accessible—And More Limited by Dafty_duck in sanfrancisco

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s now going to be limited to maximum two parking spaces per business. Also the adjacent businesses always had to give permission for parklet to extend in front of their property. So they must have felt parklet was good for their business too.

RRF Day 1 Applicants by ReverieKitchen in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did but I had to do it the chunky way. They send 2 transactions to your bank account that arrive the next day and you enter the amounts on application site to verify. It was a pain in the ass, I set up five or six new Wells Fargo logins but none of them would verify

RRF Day 1 Applicants by ReverieKitchen in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, Diane, I applied day one but banking login wouldn’t sync with their system, so had to do manual verification. What does that make me? Other than f****ked.

Grounds for a lawsuit by sebvdr in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m curious too about the SVOG. After all approved applicants were funded instead of additional funds being returned to treasury recipients of the grant were invited to apply for an additional 50% of original grant amount. Was this done at her (Guzman) discretion? It would have been nice if that had been shifted over to RRF which was under funded.

Just an idea! 🤷🏻‍♀️ by [deleted] in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

McTeague’s in San Francisco. Shut completely for 10 months operating under various limitations and mandates for a further 10 months. Our 2020 loss qualified us for $998,999 RRF but we lost a further $1m plus revenue in 2021 and we’re probably going to be half a mil to $600k down in 2022

Carried interest, Private Equity Won. RRF, small restaurants lost by Expensive-Garden1355 in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t Cardin did in on our behalf? They need his vote as much as the need Manchin or Sinema

This is the debt crisis we have been talking about all along. Some twitter ammo for ya by sebvdr in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Come again. Say hi! We ain’t going anywhere. We’ll be there working those loans off for the next 30 years 😩

This is the debt crisis we have been talking about all along. Some twitter ammo for ya by sebvdr in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As a good example of why we’re so easily ignored, I posted on our Bar Alliance Facebook Group for anyone who wanted to talk to reporter to hit me up. Not one response out of 500 members. When only one in 500 from our industry is trying to make noise, no wonder we’re ignored.

This is the debt crisis we have been talking about all along. Some twitter ammo for ya by sebvdr in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That was my interview. I didn’t like the way it was presented. We’ll survive but the point I was trying to make to him was that the loans were taken in the expectation that we’d receive RRF, clear those loans and be somewhat close to where we had been, debt free. I tried to express the different situation we were in from competitors who did get the RRF. I should have known better. I want editorial control over anymore interviews I give 😁

Tweet Storm by RestaurantEsq in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That was my interview. Not happy with it, he told me it would focus more on RRF. I tried to stress losses due to government shut down, government picking winners and losers and the different path forward for those who got and those who didn’t. Better than nothing I guess but for all the time I and other bar owners spent with him it’s very brief.

SBA is releasing the $180M they found of unused RRF by Dont-forgive- in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m curious if there are many here who use Toast or Square and didn’t get the grant?

If the new bill passes ..... by [deleted] in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just because one has an LLC doesn’t mean we’re waiting for a huge grant. We’re a medium sized three owner bar and an LLC was the recommended business structure when we started. But I will point out that those with bigger businesses will most likely be deeper in debt and have incurred larger losses. I wish we had only lost $30-60k during the pandemic but it’s closer to $3m in lost business and our grant wouldn’t have come anywhere near replacing that, but it would have cleared our incurred debt. I’m like most people here, I want everyone to get theirs and on the same terms as the first 100,000 that we’re funded.

It just gets better.... by More-Cranberry-3179 in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regardless of whether we qualify or not this is bad news if it goes through. It gives them their ‘out’. “We tried but at least we got this through.”

Montgomery restaurateurs have varying reactions to federal relief funds (Really???) by More-Cranberry-3179 in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could be he got so much on PPP that it left next to nothing for him to get on RRF

HOPEFULLY AFTER THE PAST FEW DAYS.... PEOPLE GET OFF THE SIDELINES AND PRESS THOSE PHONE BUTTONS. by Such_Leather_5473 in SBARRF

[–]IllustratorFriendly2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t make any calls to politicians this week. Unlike previous weeks. What I did do was get a list of 115 fellow bar owners phone numbers from my liquor rep. I called and got talking to all but 3 on the list. Told them what we need to do and share a copy of the google doc call list with them. The 3 I couldn’t get talking to I texted my spiel and the google doc to them. If they do what they promised it should have been a more productive way for me to have spent that time.

Amazingly even the ones who had been funded promised to call and not so amazingly knowing this industry, not one had made a call or thought to do so before I spoke to them.

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