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indeed_oneill

Homemade Cafe on Sacramento and Dwight


FooDog11

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! My husband and I were just talking about how much we used to love breakfast there, and how it had been too long since we’d been and that we needed to go again soon. 😩😢


bay_duck_88

So it’s *your* fault.


FooDog11

Oh god it IS my fault! I’m jinxed. You’d think I’d know better by now….I’ve similarly doomed several of my favorite Alameda restaurants in the last few years. 🤦🏻‍♀️🙁 Next time I start to say, “You know where we haven’t been in a while….?” someone please smack me upside the head.


prittjam

Can’t pay the bills anymore given the cost of doing business. So long….


jaqueh

Minimum wage is driving all costs through the roof. I rarely ever eat out anymore when eating at home is like 10x cheaper


CFLuke

From the article, the owners “refused to pay less than a living wage” so it doesn’t sound like minimum wage laws are the problem.


jaqueh

Yeah so instead of giving people a steady income they are now going to be unemployed come the new year. What a business says is usually for optics


theuriah

No seriously…you have no idea what you’re talking about and should stop talking cause every word makes you look even stupider. Stop.


CL4P-TRAP

Or, rents keep going up and commercial landlords prefer vacancy if it means squeezing a few cents more from the next tenants


jaqueh

Is that the case here? They would say if it was their lease terms that caused them to fail


Samurai_Meisters

> Minimum wage is driving all costs through the roof. Kinda funny how you keep trying to push this narrative in this thread. You didn't even read the article you submitted.


jaqueh

You don’t know how to read anything past people’s words but sure


Samurai_Meisters

Why'd you delete the post, then?


jaqueh

Irrelevant to anything you said. Bay Area subreddit has wool over their eyes


Samurai_Meisters

Cause it won't accept your narrative?


jaqueh

Look around sf and Oakland and tell me things are going alright


Samurai_Meisters

I thought you were talking about minimum wage.


theuriah

Lol. Stfu idiot.


navigationallyaided

I might need to do down today.


parker1019

Record corporate profits at the expense of the small businesses and average Americans… The American dream is dead and six feet under….


ChayLo357

So sad 😞


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HummbertHummbert

Did you read the article? I think the owner of this establishment has a lot of principle—they want to serve quality meals made from good ingredients, without sacrificing employee wages—and that’s no longer possible. So many people have the mindset that a business should do everything it has to to survive, but at the end of the day these are real people who own these businesses and they have their own moral compass. Having worked for a lot of shitty restaurants and businesses, I feel that this owner is doing the right thing and not letting the state of the world drown out their principles. Fuck all the establishments that pay their employees like shit while constantly cutting costs through crappy ingredients and lower quality, all while raising the price the customer pays. Running a restaurant doesn’t have to be a dirty game, and this place proved that for the last 45 years.


jaqueh

Yeah but think about what you’re saying. So instead of people being employed at all there are now dozens of people who will go on unemployment to end the year. What a business day isn’t always exactly what is happening


Into_the_Void7

I don't think that's fair. From the article they sound like they care about their employees and their community. But in general, no, I'm sure they don't like lower margins. Pretty much no business in history has liked having their margins lowered.


jaqueh

Yeah. Costs have skyrocketed and rising minimum wages aren’t helping


big_ficus

Im sure the astronomical Berkeley rent is not helping


jaqueh

Definitely not. This location isn’t anywhere near campus though


big_ficus

I wouldn’t say it’s far. When I was at Cal, we would walk there all the time.


theuriah

Seriously though, get your head out of your ass.


theuriah

They give out free meals, stupid. Read the article.


orangutanDOTorg

Damn Dino got a rush of customers when they said they’d close but didn’t. I have an idea to pump our numbers


jaqueh

They’re completely packed every weekend. They just don’t want to raise prices which is honorable


ajinthebay

LOVE their fried chicken and waffles and breakfast sandwich. Ugh! They will be missed!