As rent comes due, restaurants call for aid

[bucket]

My point being is farmers are judged by the shine of the paint they use by the general public....


If I judge a restaurant the same way it sounds pretty stupid...doesn't it....

Machinery is a necessary evil....tools like a cleaver in a restaurant is like air drill to a farmer.

[blackpowder]

Agree 100%
All my career I've felt farmers are their own worst enemy regarding public perception. Guess I'm not a good farmer, I don't pizz and whine in public.

[bucket]

I am a piss poor communicator. ...I have to think more before I post....

[6V53]

Moe grabbed 6% of the restaurant business a while back. If you notice a couple of laser dots on your forehead tomorrow morning when shaving ,the red one is Treudos and the green one is Moes.
After all who else takes CO2 and water and turns it into money.

[dalek]

Riddle me this one : 600 milk producers in Ontario have been told they’ll be dumping their last pickup of milk this week due to reduced demand for cream, etc while restaurants are closed and there will be more dumping to come. While consumers aren’t able to find enough milk and butter in the stores to fill their shopping lists.

[grefer]

I'm sorry but I think I must be the original dumb ****led farmer. I certainly dont pretend to think I know how every or even most farmers are doing but I have never felt so fortunate in my sixty some years to be where I am and in the profession I am. I have had many Thanksgivings and have never been so thankful. I have three almost adult children and a wife who are more important to me than squabbling about who gets what from the government. I have my own opinion of what is being said and done by politicians in both Canada and the United States but I will be damned if I will let that suck the life out of me when what is really important is right in front of my face.

[farmaholic]

I would tend to agree grefer, but there could well be an economic sobering day of reckoning coming from this.

Hopefully we'll all be around to witness and experience it, because the alternative to being here to see it makes the possible bleak outcome irrelevant.

[Sheepwheat]

Sad for our farm as we worked hard to get into supplying several with lamb. Just when we made some great strides, this virus came along. Direct sales and the stores are doing great, but no restaurant orders any more for who knows how long? It won’t kill us, we just got going, but it is still frustrating when you work for a year or two to get into the business and jump through the hoops, only to have that side collapse.

I feel terrible for our restaurants. They are in a real pickle for sure!

[bucket]

Sad for our farm as we worked hard to get into supplying several with lamb. Just when we made some great strides, this virus came along. Direct sales and the stores are doing great, but no restaurant orders any more for who knows how long? It won’t kill us, we just got going, but it is still frustrating when you work for a year or two to get into the business and jump through the hoops, only to have that side collapse.

I feel terrible for our restaurants. They are in a real pickle for sure!

And in the years I have read your posts....it seems you have worn their shoes...

And what did any government do for you over the years...


Do they need help? Yup....but never forget how little they did for you...

[Sheepwheat]

And in the years I have read your posts....it seems you have worn their shoes...

And what did any government do for you over the years...


Do they need help? Yup....but never forget how little they did for you...

I guess I am not even saying I expect them to get government help. I don’t. Just like I don’t wish for or expect government help personally. I’ll fight my own way along thank you very much! I am just saying I feel badly for them personally, as I know how tight margins are and how hard they worked to get this far, without the benefit of their main source of equity, (which they usually actually don’t have in the first place), increasing by two and three times.

Restaurant owners I have found are extremely and ridiculously hard working, not seasonally like a grain farmer. I mean they are at it ALL THE TIME. They go hard all the time! My best wishes are with the forward thinking, local food sourcing, independently owned restaurants around the province.

[jazz]

I am serioulsy looking at the entire landscape of canadian business and I only see two or three industrys still functioning. Liquor and pot, forestry and fishery and ag. Lets see if they can lead us out of a depression and like no politician even acknowledging this. Be lucky if there isnt a famine at the end of all this.

[6V53]

Air Canada made good money last year. ...and already have the talks started directly with Moroneau. ..

Wife and a bunch of other whinoes cancelled a trip for middle of April and Air Canada put their airplane money in a 2 year trust fund.
Money could be better spent on pork and beans and a gas mask.