Berkeley's Homemade Cafe closes its doors for good
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- The line wrapped around the block on New Year's Day as Berkeley's Homemade Café closed its doors for good. The East Bay favorite has been serving breakfast and lunch since 1979.
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I was in the same boat as this gentleman. I closed up after 51 years in business. Rising material, insurance, and labor costs make it nearly impossible to make a profit. You can only raise prices so much before your customers walk away.
i hear ya. i have to close down as well. the costs and crimes are impossible for small biz to survive in the bay area.
Most Americans are quitters
Soon local govt will hardly have any tax base. Literally, they killed the goose that laid the golden egg..so pathetic 😮
Typical to think about yourself only@@rasputinspickledpeepee1976
I ask myself the same thing
Everyone closing down it’s sad
Legalized CRIME is having a banner year. We fought for a utopian society and got hell on earth. .
These Wonderful People are being forced to close by the very Policies that their Politicians enact. Yet More Closures.
RIP! It's particularly heartbreaking because every room that this hominin entered was flooded with the most brilliant light and unconditional love! They spread joy, and always had a kind word for everyone, including the fur babies. “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” Light and love to everyone who reads this message of hope.
The "Everybody eats" killed the restaurant
An idealist who was betrayed by bERKELEY.
wHY SHOULD HE WORK, WHEN ALL OTHERS STEAL ? hE DOES not WANT THIS FOR HIS DAUGHTER
Pizza hut too
Very classy that he didn't mention the crime , homeless and drug issue of the neighborhood and Berkeley that is the primary issue. It is not just the small business crime , but the daily challenge of customers sidestepping the muggings and car break ins just to support the business. He is an idealist but feels defeated by the anarchy and legalization of crime by the DA, Mayor and City Council. SAD - When will we wake up ? ?
Than go do something about it instead of crying about it here in a comment section. You think those homeless people wanna be there, no one helping them.
It's not the issue the issue is charging $20 for 2 eggs and some toast who will continue to pay that price NOT MANY
@@rasputinspickledpeepee1976 Yes, that is the SAD reality. It is heartbreaking that much of our idealism is darkened. Just like Peoples Park. it used to mean so much and now it is crime , feces and heroin. Utopia is not legalized crime !
@@readyfortheworld9232Agreed
@@jaylu7021 Everyone is trying to do something about it. When all small business's are gone, there wont be ANY cars to break into. THEN WHAT ? our idealism has been crushed because the greed and evil of crime is now OK and legal, while hardworking souls of the Cafe are victims of the predators. He did his best but the blight is too far gone
The state passes all kinds of expensive laws written seemingly to put small businesses out of business and so we naturally blame the 'economy.'
Pizza hut got dinged for letting fo 1000+ delivery drivers but the same media is showering this guy with all kinds of great adjectives. He does seem liike a greast man with good attitude in serving his community since running a resturanr forthat long is not an easy task.
@@kanank13 The radicals and Antifa wont be happy until they drive Berkeley Bowl out of town. 25 cents for a bag at BB , to fund the homeless crime, needle exchange and 'programs;. 10 cents everywhere else EVEN OAKLAND !
People with agendas so naturally blame whatever their pet issue is. Couldn't possibly be someone is just retiring after 44 years in a business, and sure, they probably said, 'in this economy' but that's just the trigger for retirement, not the cause. Get out and enjoy the golden years while they're still profitable.
I'll place a nickel on the bet you don't even live here, let alone have you ever been to the restaurant in question.
can you specify what those laws are?
@@accordiongordon Arbitrary hikes in minimum wage laws are designed to put small businesses out of business. Add to that new tax hikes, fees, license, cost of regulation and compliance and higher property tax and defunded police destroying downtown combined with homeless people pooping in the streets... Need I go on, because I can.
it's over......
Open up in Walnut Creek (Locust or Main) . You will be appreciated, safe, and customers will pay what you ask for and more. He won't say it on camera but it is the crime in the area that is driving people/business out.
Has nothing to do wit crime it has to do wit bidenomics when you have to keep raising prices jus to make a profit.i paid $12 for 2 pancakes it's crazy !!
People will not continue to pay $12 and $15 for 2 pancakes when they can make them at home way cheaper
Thanks Newsome
this place is great!
Wow..45 years!
GOD BLESS HIM 🙏
Heartwarming story of people earned what they had voted for. Bidenomics starting strong in 2024. Wonderful.
Can't wait to see more people earning what they had voted for in 2024. Keep going!
LOL! You voted for it :)
Aren't you sick of yourself? Same comments. Same stupid responses.
You sound stoopid nobody voted for it
Great place, been going there 10+ years. That said, there were always too many employees per shift, rising food costs, forced shut down during COVID, free food program... Too many things combined to make it economically viable. Saul's, Berkeley social club, and others are able to make it work but, frankly, I i think they are run more efficiently. Business is brutal.
Go Woke Go Broke. Welcome to "Bidenomics" people. Had enough? Vote Republican.
No, we love businesses closing down, here! More room for sheltering Joe's illegals!
Wouldn't have anything to do with the upcoming absurd socialist minimum wage, would it?
😅
Berkeley has had that minimum wage since well before the pandemic, it's more of the cost of groceries and how people just don't go out to eat as much.
@@toyajackson556 Oh? You mean the city of Berkeley had voluntarily raised its min wage higher than the state's?
If that's true, then there you go, that aggravated the destruction of small businesses (and turn the lower wage workers to no income, jobless people).
And of course, the horrendous inflation and cost and taxes increase of everything this past three years is also a culprit in destroying this country.
And California leads the way in this terror on we the people.
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So, they gave out free food? I'm not an expert in the restaurant business, but yeah, that would cause you to go out of business. Come on ppl, it's not a charity and you're trying to run it in SD?
Not free food, but a pay-it-forward program, which someone paid for the foods for the next customers who are hungry and need helps. This type of program is popular in asia, which helps a lot of laidoff & unemployed people.
In this case, I think it is the increased wages and insurance expenses. At some point, the numbers just don't make sense. He refused to make it explicit because he voted for it. But the result is the same.
@@bbmak0 Which countries in Asia? Never heard of it in that part of the world. I know it's not happening in China, and they're on the verge of economic collapse.
@@sfdanceron1 China is not gonna economically collapse lol they got all the money in the world practically
@@415_Stand-up Well, let's see, the real estate industry which makes up 30 percent of their gnp is pretty much in the trash. Protests are breaking out all over China because depositors can't get their money from many banks. The unemployment figures of recent graduates by the ccp is estimated to be 20 percent plus, although they've stopped giving out numbers. The real figure is probably somewhere around 40-50 percent. The other major nail in China's coffin is the massive number of foreign investment leaving the country. Those investors are now moving to India, Vietnam, and Thailand(and they ain't coming back). They're also taking down the once great power house of Asia, Hong Kong, with them. You need to get your head out of your ass and do some research.
Bidenomics strikes again.
Yup
Move to east bay and there is demand for good restaurants here😎
Where are you from?! Berkeley is in the East Bay. 🙄
They voted themselves out of business.
The Asian lady reporter has a very Americanized voice
Perhaps it's because she was born in America.
@@randir14 🤭
She doesn’t look Asian to me 🧐
@@randir14 LOL!! How dumb can that person be, "a very Americanized voice."
And yet they'll still vote for the ppl who enacted the policies. Stupid is,stupid does.
Bidenomics
Who cares