Noone wanna work, even more so

[buynholdisdead]

@steve203

The Village has no more daytime hours until mid April. The commercial building on the right once housed the Wright brothers bicycle shop. The Wright family home is just beyond it. The second building on the left is where the Heinz condiment company was founded. The Edison research complex is around the corner on the right.

Your a lucky man Steve that is a lot of history. Must be really nice in the summer time.

Andy

[steve203]

@buynholdisdead

Your a lucky man Steve that is a lot of history. Must be really nice in the summer time.

Yes, and it’s only about 15 miles from Casa del Steve. I hold an annual membership, so anytime it’s a nice day, I can head over and just hang out, watching the Model Ts putter by.

The Village has some special events too.

Promo for the “Old Car Festival” that is held each September.

Old Car Festival Promo 2019

Promo for the “Motor Muster” that is held every June.

Motor Muster 2019

Every Saturday and Sunday during the summer, the Village hosts baseball games, 1867 rules.

Historic Base Ball at The Henry Ford

Steve

[Goofyhoofy]

@MarkR

of scale and may also be willing to ride out the storm because they’ve been through cycles like this before and know they always come out stronger than the competition (not to mention that their gross profit is indeed growing again since a decline in 2020).

“McDonalds” has almost nothing to do with running the restaurants, 93% of them are run by independent franchisees. McDonald’s makes its money sourcing burgers and fries to the franchisees (and often renting the land the franchise sits on) but not by being in the operational side of the business. (Also true of most Burger Kings.) They also take a skim of gross sales for advertising, etc.

Starbucks, by contrast, and almost universally corporate owned. Exceptions for locations in airports & convention centers under master contracts to specialists, and in-store locations like at Krogers, etc.

I really can’t answer why you see so many closures; around here they’re all open - with the exception of Taco Bell’s, which are only running with the drive-thru open. Again, a local decision by the franchise operator.

[DrBob2]

@Goofyhoofy

I really can’t answer why you see so many closures; around here they’re all open

Same here in Wisconsin. No problems.

DB2

[38Packard]

We Ma$$holes can eat anywhere pretty much anytime.

New restaurants and pizza joints and “insert your fav here” joints opening and running daily.

Not a fan of fast food, so never go there, but drive by and see lines of cars and people coming and going.

'38Packard