Zombie The Coronavirus Financial Thread (Personal, Local, National)

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  1. ABM

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    Canyonville’s Seven Feathers casino reopens with coronavirus precautions.

    "Seven Feathers, which is owned by the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, is one of Douglas County’s largest employers and most well-attended attractions. Before shutting down on March 17 due to COVID-19, Seven Feathers had about 650 employees and averaged about 1,300 customers a day.

    The sudden closure led to more than 500 of those employees to be furloughed and denied those customers a place to play electronic slot machines and enjoy food and drinks.

    Wednesday night, Seven Feathers brought in about 300 frequent customers and around 100 employees for a test run of the newly configured casino and hotel. When that soft opening went well, the tribal council took a vote in a Zoom teleconference meeting Thursday and decided to reopen."

    https://www.oregonlive.com/business...ino-reopens-with-coronavirus-precautions.html
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Portland Restaurateur David Machado Will Close All of His Restaurants Permanently

    The man behind places like Nel Centro and Altabira City Tavern will close every restaurant he owns

    A Portland restaurateur has announced that he will close not one, but all of his five restaurants because of COVID-19. David Machado, a hotel-based restaurateur, will be permanently closing the rooftop bar Altabira City Tavern, Citizen Baker, Italian restaurant Nel Centro, Pullman Wine Bar and Merchant, and Northwestern bistro Tanner Creek Tavern. “There’s no pathway back to a viable business,” Machado says, referencing the many hurdles that the restaurants will likely face if reopened.

    There are a few factors that make David Machado Restaurants especially vulnerable to the perils of reopening — perhaps most obvious is that all of them are housed in hotels, and there’s no indication at all when Portland’s tourism scene will return to anything approaching normal. Additionally, each of them relied heavily on a steady stream of concert, sports, and event-goers — Nel Centro was a popular spot for ticket-holders going to a show at the Keller Auditorium, while Altabira and Pullman pulled in Blazers fans heading to the nearby Moda Center and crowds attending the various events at the Convention Center across the street. Tanner Creek Tavern’s position in the Pearl meant that most nights saw diners headed to shows at the Armory, or stopping in for a post-performance drink.

    Even the flashy design of the restaurants, once a selling point, is now a hindrance, as large dining rooms with hundreds of seats surrounding a central bar wouldn’t fit the new state guidelines for reopening, Machado says. “There’s going to be increased labor because of safety, sanitation, preparation, moving tables and chairs... opening duties, closing duties, hosting — everything changes. It will require more labor but we anticipate revenue going down 50 to 70 percent,” he explains. The private dining rooms in each restaurant would have to stay closed as well — social distancing is impossible in such intimate quarters.

    Machado spent the last 40 years of his life in restaurants, the last 30 of them here in Portland. Nel Centro, which opened in 2009, was his first while his most recent, Pullman Wine Bar and Merchant, opened last September in the same Hotel Eastlund as Altabira. “I’ve had a long and successful career, I wouldn’t change anything,” Machado says. “But I had 170 employees that are now unemployed.” If he did reopen restaurants, and then a lack of revenue or a resurgence of the pandemic forced them to close again, it would just be worse. “I could not bear to go through layoffs again.”

    He’s not feeling optimistic about the future of Portland’s restaurant scene as a whole, due to the pandemic. “I think more of what I’m telling you is going to happen in the next 30 days,” Machado says. “It has the potential to wipe out the owner-operator class: the mom and pop, independent places owned by one or two people... All the businesses grown from passion and creativity. It leaves the corporations, the highly capitalized with more space. Portland is built on the entrepreneurial spirit, it’s what’s made this city great,” says Machado. “This attacks the very notion of who are.”

    https://pdx.eater.com/2020/5/22/212...virus-nel-centro-altabira-city-tavern-pullman
     
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    I hung out in a packed bar last night. Drank and visited with friends and acquaintances. Met and shook hands with new people. Hugged a few friends I hadn’t seen in awhile. Live band randomly showed up and started playing, it was quite a time.
    Fuck the new normal, I rather enjoy the old one.
     
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    JB, I enjoy the old one too, hell, everyone does, but IMO, this is not the time to play loose...not yet.
     
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    Fuck booze and the poor judgement it enables...….it's like....I don't need to wear seatbelts anymore and I can drive drunk! I don't need a condom for a one night stand …...was the band in the bar called the "suicide kings or death cab for cutie?" There was probably square dancing, line dancing and death dancing....yee ha! Careless move dude and in my view...horrible timing..it's shit like that that's going to keep folks my age from going anywhere for years
     
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    What’s the alternative? The virus isn’t going anywhere whether we all hide in our closets or not. Might as well let all the young fucks develop antibodies and not be carriers to give it to the old.
     
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    How long do the antibodies last?
     
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    No clue. Maybe nobody knows. As far as I can tell nobody knows jack shit about this virus except that the only way to prevent it is to shop at Walmart, avoid nature, fresh air and sunlight at all costs and drive around in your car with a mask on.
     
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    Avoiding nature and fresh air are not part of the safety protocol. You should read up on New Zealand’s or Taiwan’s success with simple masks and safe distancing. We are not being smart about it here because of prime need for instant gratification. Not smart at all
     
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    Our kids (1 couple) came over today and we sd visited in the back yard with mask on. It was nice now that Clackamas county is open for some of this.
    The toughest part fro us is not be able able to hug or kids and grandkids, tomorrow we are going over to visit our other kids and our 1 year old grandchild, again outside only at this point and I'll probably sport a mask.
     
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    My grandson was born at around 5 pm today and he’s healthy and well. Got pics sent and he’s a chip off the old block. River man is a proud grandpa!
     
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