{"id":84289,"date":"2023-01-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84289"},"modified":"2023-01-23T05:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T11:52:38","slug":"worse-waitress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84289","title":{"rendered":"Worse Waitress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After <em>twenty years <\/em>on Eat Street, &#8220;Bad Waitress&#8221; &#8211; as perfect a metaphor for life in a city run by Democrats &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/the-bad-waitress-diner-to-close-after-nearly-20-years-on-minneapolis-eat-street\/?utm_campaign=true_anthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR2nhQGtUv_id1_6VQonsi4tlPW3oFJN8UMI1Mz1rYclM4FuwnhNBt-c6-k#ld35j6knh26n4sl5ps\">has abused its last customer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;When we opened The Bad Waitress, we set out to serve our friends and neighbors better food with a fresh approach. We&#8217;ve believed since the start that brunch makes everything better \u2013 but this time, it couldn&#8217;t save the day,&#8221; the Cohens wrote. &#8220;We hope you&#8217;ll join us for one last lunch date, boozy brunch, mid-morning coffee, or to use your Bad Waitress gift card before we close our doors on Sunday, January 29.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>They actually had two locations.  The other one, up in Northeast, closed&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;oh, just you guess when.  2020.  You got it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But remember &#8211; don&#8217;t you <em>dare <\/em>say Minneapolis is in a death spiral. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I wish the folks at Hell&#8217;s Kitchen all the best, after some of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68027\">wokiness<\/a>, I can&#8217;t help but wonder if the wolves aren&#8217;t circling the door. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After twenty years on Eat Street, &#8220;Bad Waitress&#8221; &#8211; as perfect a metaphor for life in a city run by Democrats &#8211; has abused its last customer. &#8220;When we opened The Bad Waitress, we set out to serve our friends and neighbors better food with a fresh approach. We&#8217;ve believed since the start that brunch [&hellip;]<\/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-84289","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\/84289","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=84289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84289\/revisions\/84305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}