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Maybe dollars spent at local restaurants isn't the metric we should be optimizing for?

• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  Maybe those restaurants can simply move to residential areas. People still eat lunch. Regardless we don’t manufacture buggy whips to keep the buggy whip businesses afloat either.
  • cableshaft 4y ago
    Yeah, I live in the suburbs, and I count almost 60 restaurants within a six minute drive of me, most of them centered on two commercial strips surrounded by residential areas. Only a few restaurants around here died since Covid (we lost a Steak n' Shake, a brunch place, and recently a chinese place and a Boston Market), most are still here, and we've gotten several new ones besides that, so I think people are still clearly supporting restaurants around here.
  • midoridensha 4y ago
    >Maybe those restaurants can simply move to residential areas. In the US and other places with Euclidean zoning, that's illegal. Restaurants have to be kept far apart from residences. It's better in such places for all the restaurants to go out of business, and people can just stay at home and cook microwave meals.
    • fnordpiglet 4y ago
      See the parallel comment to yours. I didn’t mean literally buy a house and open a restaurant. But most zoning has commercial zones near residential zones. Come on, it’s all just sim city.