Restaurants A dying industry

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

I either eat out or do take-out every Friday. That's been routine for past 8 years. However, I restrict myself to the private/family owned eateries and not any of the chains. That includes pizza take-out too. Those too are becoming fewer & fewer. Around my area these privately owned restaurants are only open 3-4 days a week and some now only do dinner while others have permanently closed their doors because after Covid they weren't able to find good help even after raising their wages. Sad times.

I only buy from local Mom and Pop eateries or from those owned by folk I trust. The problem I see locally, is that they are bringing in way too many new residents, and they are bringing in way too many commercial businesses to our backwoods country area. Unless the new folk will be financially strong enough to support all the new businesses, we are going to have a lot of empty shops or ghost malls around, helping the new development to go to seed really fast.