By Tyler Durden
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,” restaurateur 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
Source: ZeroHedge
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