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Who is the better alternative?

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Here we F'n go. I'd like to have a survey of all those small businesses.

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Agreed. It seems out of touch to me but who knows, so many in the industry are left leaning. Maybe they do think the measures that were put in place were helpful. I can tell you that most of the folks I know don't. Of course some do but from my sample group they are the minority.

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Clown World.

Honk! Honk!

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Here we F'n go. I'd like to have a survey of all those small businesses.

"So, we bought it and opened up July 1. My wife and I had three basic things: One, we were going to sell the food at a reasonable price. Two, we were going to make sure people had enough to eat and when they got up, they weren't going to be hungry.  Three, we were going to be good homestyle cooking," he said.  Warner cites the rise in costs and supply chain issues as the reasons for closing.

"Food costs have just gone outrageous," he said. "We raised our prices for the first time in nine months on Feb. 1 and we are already behind again. We raised prices to keep food costs down but we are back up again already just a month later." As an example, Warner said when they first started out a 10-pound slab of bacon cost $35 and now costs $57, and chicken fried steaks were $43 for a case and are now $96.

"We just got to the point where we were tired of trying to keep up. We talked about it on and off for the past couple of months and just came to the decision this weekend that we could not run the restaurant and provide a product that we're comfortable providing to the public at a price that we think is fair. We can't run it the way we want to run it anymore," Warner said.
The cost increases are killing small town mom-and-pop businesses, Warner said: "It's just sad that another small business has to go to the wayside because of cost."
"One customer said you don't have places like this where you can sit down and relax and meet with your friends and talk with your friends. Other restaurants don't have that kind of environment where you don't feel comfortable doing that.  Ours is inviting when you walk in. The customer said something else that struck me. He said when you own a business, you don't really own a business, it owns you.

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....they take our money on the front-side through "taxation", ....then they come and take more of our money on the back-side through "inflation"...