{"id":73113,"date":"2020-01-20T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73113"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:57:13","slug":"the-steady-drip-drip-drip-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73113","title":{"rendered":"The Steady Drip Drip Drip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Downtown Minneapolis mainstay Ike’s is shutting its doors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The owner doesn’t chalk it up to any single cause<\/a>. Rather, it’s the slow drip drip drip of urban decay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Winstead, the negotiations were meant to \u201caddress restaurant and market conditions\u201d impacting Ike\u2019s bottom line, including \u201clabor costs, operational costs, maintenance costs and taxes.\u201d<\/em>
\u201cThere are so many issues, not any one of them a restaurant killer on its own, but taken altogether it adds up,\u201d [owner Gene] Winstead said. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And, naturally, the elephant in the room, the bit of blight whose name Minneapolis DFLers dare not speak:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winstead \u201calso cited a perception of downtown Minneapolis as unsafe<\/a> for evening diners. \u2018There is a little truth to it, but it\u2019s mostly perception,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And it is – there are a lot of suburbans, by no means all conservatives much less Trump voters, who get hysterical about downtown crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s not all hype. Unlike Saint Paul, which has its own perception problems, violent crime in general was up sharply in Minneapolis last year, along with a hike in homicide that is lower than Saint Paul’s, but started from a 2018 figure that was already higher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let’s back up to economics. When you point out that establishments in MInneapolis and Saint Paul are closing, they’ll respond “There’s always attrition in the hospitality industry”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not inaccurate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s just that Ike’s other locations are booming right along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As are suburban branches of other establishments that’ve packed it in in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Downtown Minneapolis mainstay Ike’s is shutting its doors. The owner doesn’t chalk it up to any single cause. Rather, it’s the slow drip drip drip of urban decay: According to Winstead, the negotiations were meant to \u201caddress restaurant and market conditions\u201d impacting Ike\u2019s bottom line, including \u201clabor costs, operational costs, maintenance costs and taxes.\u201d\u201cThere are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73116,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73113\/revisions\/73116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}