30 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. Would this be the Restaurants Canada that fought tooth-and-nail against the wuhan-flu mandates…. or another one?

    Okay, okay. Just being silly.

  2. Canadian Beer Tax!!!
    Our forefathers (forepersons?) fought a revolution over a damn Stamp Tax.

    Oops. Sorry. I forgot that they took your guns first.

    1. Well at least your forefather Washington had the foresight to reinstate said tax causing said Whiskey Rebellion.
      I hear it didn’t work out too well for the rebels.

  3. Suggestion:

    Provide the same slice of openings and closures for a past year. I would suggest 2018 (prior to the epidemic). That comparison would provide reference and help solidify the cause of the closures outpacing openings in 2022. I happen to know the restaurant business is risky (even in good economic times). Longevity in a business is not guaranteed. More so in hospitality industries.

    1. Agreed. Wouldn’t be surprised that closures now are similar than pre-panic numbers, but openings are down. Borrowing costs up, inflation shrinking your market, uncertainty regarding governments repeating shutdowns, labour shortages (which I can’t understand admittedly, but they exist). Nobody has to open a restaurant today.

      1. I know a couple of very successful long term restaurants in my area that were closed strictly because of government orders. They could never recover the volume to keep them viable. Working for nothing because the government forced you is a non-starter. Scaring the sh*t out of people so they do not associate with others, reducing capacity, inflating the currency, taxing business to death, yep government was is and continues to be the problem.

  4. Sorry, I don’t understand that article about taxes on liquor going up. The reporter wrote that because of “inflation” the taxes will increase 6%. Doesn’t inflation have the effect of raising prices? So if the price of beer goes up, the 50% of the price that is taxes would increase proportionally, wouldn’t it? Why does the rate of tax need to go to 56%? I must be some kind of idiot to not understand something so obvious to a reporter. I’m looking forward to hyperinflation when the tax rate will need to go to 100% though.

    1. The fed tax on alcohol is an escalator tax. It is also a tax on taxes. Something that used to be illegal in canada, but hey, in a third world sh*t hole all taxes escalate.

  5. Geez, what a shame. I’m pretty sure this is what they want?
    I made it my mission to follow the tweets and websites of Chamber of Commerce and Ontario Restaurant Hotel & Motel Association…not a god damned peep out of any one of them other than parroting gov’t mask regs that they were totally on board with and everything else.
    If they think plebs like us are going to do all the heavy lifting for them while they sit on their asses, well, that just isn’t happening.
    Got nothin’ in the tank.

  6. I’m going to give every association, union, business groups some slack, because they were threatened severely by TPTB. It’s gone now yet I don’t see any regrets, concerns or empathy, so screw them.
    This is what the Communists like to call “unsustainable”.

  7. I decided to give myself a huge raise … I quite smoking cigars and stopped drinking alcoholic beverages. Also cut way back on pot which I do not buy from the government.

    I feel better and can’t believe how much extra cash I have at the end of each month now,

    Y’all might try that yourself. It will do you a lot of good in many ways.

    They need our stupidity to keep us down. Don’t give it to them.

  8. Timmies closed a few outlets in downtown Cowtown due to Mandates.
    A 7-11 closed recently due to vagrancy & thefts.

    Not that i care. Don’t go downtown.
    Retired means lots of time to enjoy beverages/meals at home.
    Try a spatchcocked chicken seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs de provence.
    Magnifique.

  9. Taxes 50% the cost of beer? 65% the cost of wine and spirits higher? Insanity. I’m an American citizen but I see a political opportunity here. Why doesn’t the Conservative Party run on a platform of reducing alcohol taxes by 33% or more? Make the Liberals defend these obscene taxes and let the voters decide what they want. The only problem with this idea is that Canadians have been cowed by their government so long that they might decide to “embrace the suck” and stick with the status quo…

    I don’t understand the apathy.

    1. Canadians are a bunch of Karens. I honestly think it would be political suicide to offer to cut alcohol taxes.

    3. Jimm, canadians never saw a tax they would not pay. For some insane reason they also think medical care is free. Delusional is the word I use along with stupid.

  10. Sorry but I avoid buying any drinks with my meals. Prices now range from $8 to $12 each, and with that, overpriced food. With min wages topping $15/hrs, and getting near $20 for servers, I’m about done with restaurants.
    Over $20 for burgs and fries, last time out, all the basic entrees were at or over $20 at Browns. No better elsewhere.
    And yes these were part of the BC restaurant association that was parroting Quackzine passports and shutting out customers. Eff them. I’m not paying those silly prices for basic grub, nor for drinks.

      1. I’m so old – sorry I cant help it…

        McDonalds – Hamburger, small fries, and a coke – $0.99

        Bag of chips and a can of coke – $0.25

        and gas was 0.68/gallon (Canadian gallon)

        I have zero sympathy for any business that enforced segregation.

        1. You can still get a decent size beef dog and 20 oz drink at Costco food court for $ 1.50.
          Best price in North America.

    2. Dan

      Takin the family out a week Tomorrow.
      Keg.
      Only cause I’m on the tailend of a 21 day shift at Fort Hills. I seriously doubt this will be a regular occurrence, regardless of amount of incoming coin….as a matter of fact, likely the last time.

      Savings is the name of the game for me alongside Silver Coin purchases. I for one will toos my bondage machine in the Bow River the day the attempt to push digital currency

  11. Since Amazon killed retail, just about every commercial space on the downtown main street of my city is a food service place of some type. Canadians eat commercially prepared food a lot. People are getting poorer, the price of food is going up. All it would take to cause a whole pile of food service businesses to go bankrupt is for every Canadian to cut down on their takeout/restaurant budget by one or two meals a week.

    I came home from work late the other day, Mrs Shackleford had been out all day so I stopped off at a burrito place I often go to and picked up two medium burritos to take home and it cost me thirty bucks. I’m now planning a menu of home cooked meals I can freeze then pull out and stick in the microwave when I have days like that instead of opting for the convenience of having someone else cook for me. If other people make decisions like this, and they will be forced to by economic necessity, the food service business will take a beating.

  12. I can’t imagine being in the dating game and feeling the need to take her out to a restaurant and movie.

    Couldn’t we just save our money and spend in in a jurisdiction which doesn’t treat us like crap instead?

  13. Apparently, journalists are incapable of understanding basic percentages and math in general. The federal excise tax on beer is 0.33 dollars per liter and 13.04 dollars per liter on hard stuff. This tax will increase by 6.3% on April 1. That increase will be passed on to the consumer of course but will not result in a 6.3 % increase in the total price.

    1. Go long on dry beans, Kenji.

      Better yet, start stockpiling dry beans, now. It will probably be a better investment than gold. You can’t eat gold.

  16. So the tax is going up at the rate of inflation – 6%?

    How does that translate to a 6% increase in the total cost unless the tax is 100% of the cost?

    The cost of making the beer has gone up 6% and the increase in the tax will add a little more to that but the tax alone isn’t increasing the price that much.

    Note: I am not supporting the tax increase. Just criticizing the basic inability of reporters to do math.

  17. You need to compare retail business failure across the decades to get an accurate picture of the situation. I await the various levels of government to notice the shrinking of the tax base. So many promises, so few resources but people who claim they need to be coddled from cradle to grave jumped at the chance to donate to the cell phone swindle. How did they do the budgeting for phones but still say the need $10 a day for child care, breakfasts at schools, student loans etc. ? Priorities reversed.

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