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“These restaurant operators are really operating under a perfect storm, dealing with record [high] commodity prices, higher labor costs with the minimum wage increasing and falling consumer demand,” says Robert Marzo, senior analyst of food service for F&D Reports, a retail consulting firm in Great Neck, N.Y. “Many of [them] can no longer offer the same quality ingredients that they have in years past, so they’re downgrading in any way that they can.”
They’re getting “creative with their recipes, using cheaper ingredients and offering smaller portions in an effort to stay afloat,” he adds.
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
Church’s Chicken
IHOP and Applebee’s
Marco’s Pizza
Tumbleweed Restaurants
SOURCE LINK : Here’s a look at a few efforts by chains and their franchisees to save money and draw in customers
So democrats don’t try a say that all this is cause by the Republicans, as it was the democrats who raise fed min wages! At the time I was posting on another discussion board and said that when the democrats took control of congress and raised the min wages that prices would go up and people would lose jobs and they have. Now with these businesses hurting Obama wants to raise their taxes and require them to provide healthcare for their workers along with still raisng fed min wages again…..if he does then the employees just as well sleep in and forget about having a job and head on down to the wel-fare office!
Categories: politics
Tagged: Obama, republicans, democrats, Barack Obama, family, Bail Out, wages, Jobs, Layoffs
A communications industry lobbyist who has represented some of the nation’s most powerful cable, Internet and telecommunications firms is drawing scrutiny for his role on President-elect Obama’s transition team.
James Halpert, an attorney and registered lobbyist with DLA Piper, is advising on matters involving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and intellectual property, according to many sources in the technology sector who are familiar with Obama’s transition operations.
Critics are crying foul because they insist Halpert lobbied these issues just a few months ago, in violation of Obama’s strict ethics guidelines, which state that parties joining the transition effort are prohibited from working in areas in which they focused as registered lobbyists in the last 12 months.
“When we saw his name pop up as the transition guy for IP, I mean, everybody nearly had a heart attack,” an industry source said.
The flap over Halpert comes as corporate stakeholders and watchdogs jockey for position to influence decisions the new administration will make in the coming weeks and months that could profoundly affect their businesses and reverse eight years of largely deregulatory communications policies.
While the Obama team has released the names of its top transition advisers, several of whom have deep ties to communications firms and associations, hundreds more including Halpert have not been disclosed to the public.
SOURCE: Nationaljournal
Change we can count on, may I quit laughing now? Everything Obama is doing looks like old Washington corruption to me. Where is the change? Like I said change can be bad as well as good and Obama’s change looks to be bad!!
Categories: politics
Tagged: Obama, republicans, democrats, Barack Obama, lobbyists, internet, ethics, James Halpert, telecommunications
The Israeli Air Force is ready to attack Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons project if diplomacy fails to persuade the Islamic Republic to halt uranium enrichment, said Commander Ido Nehushtan in an interview published Tuesday.
The news comes as the U.N. watchdog agency reports Iran is probably at the point of being capable of making a nuclear bomb.
“We are prepared and ready to do whatever Israel needs us to do and if this is the mission we’re given then we are ready,” Nehushtan told German magazine Der Spiegel.
Read more here SOURCE: FOX NEWS
Categories: politics
Tagged: Barack Obama, democrats, Iran, Islamic Republic, Israel, nuclear bomb, republicans, United States
* Extend amusement tax to include 135,000 Chicagoans who get their cable TV by installing a satellite dish.
*Raise $9 million by requiring businesses and residential high-rises to purchase annual licenses for their garbage containers at a cost of $80 to $780.
* Increase the public vehicle license fee paid by limousines and charter buses from $200 to $500 from $100.
* Increase parking tax — from $2.25 to $3 — on motorists who pay more than $12 to park.
* Double daily library fines from 10 cents to 20 cents
* Raise daily and annual fees for merchants at Maxwell Street market to save jumping jack program for neighborhood festivals.
* Raise residential permit parking guest passes from $10 to $16 for a book of 30.
* Raise ambulance fees from $325 and $8 a mile to $600 and $13 a mile for basic life support; from $400 and $8 a mile to $700 and $13 a mile for advanced life support. Nonresidents will pay $100 more on top of that.
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Taxes will be on the rise across America for at least the next 4 years! Is this what the American people was hoping for in the way of change?
Categories: politics
Tagged: Barack Obama, cable tv, Charter buses, Chicagoans, democrats, family, garbage, library fines, limousines, motorists, parking tax, Public vehicle, Raise prices, republicans, Satellite dish
Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”
Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was “facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see.”
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I think Obama is looking weak to the rest of the World, and now with him picking so many Clinton people and maybe Hillary shows that he is not experience and these terrorist can see it in the way Obama talks! I think we are in trouble for at least 4 years!
Categories: politics
Tagged: republicans, democrats, Barack Obama, family, muslims, al-Qaida, Colin Powell, Arabs, Jihadi, Condoleezza Rice, Malcolm X, Ayman al-Zawahri
