Quote Originally Posted by KC2UGV View Post
He wasn't bitching about that. He was bitching about rent, regulations, and food prices:

Villano blamed the shutdown on “increasing food prices, shifting city regulations and landlord interference.

That sounds like a businessman who can't come up with a flexible enough business strategy to cope with rent, food price increases, and regulatory climate; pining for the days where you could clean glasses by spitting on them, you could get potatoes for 10 cents for a 50 lb bag, milk was a nickel a gallon, and rent was only $50 a month.

Hell, people here pay top dollar for mom-and-pop restaurant cuisine. And, I'm sure they do in NYC as well.
It can be dangerous to start commenting when you're not embedded in the culture about which your commenting.

I you WERE, what you'd be seeing is that only the deep-pocketed huge chains are now able to start up new businesses here. They've got the $$$$$ that the greedy landlords know they can get from those businesses. And that shuts down and shuts out a LOT of mom & pop type operations. And, it probably true that those big $$$$$ chains are getting plenty of concessions from mikey. Even the 2nd avenue deli was close for a while when their rent was jacked up into the usurious nether regions. Finally re-opened in a smaller space at 33rd and 3rd.

Hell, people here pay top dollar for mom-and-pop restaurant cuisine. And, I'm sure they do in NYC as well.
Buffalo and NYC are two completely different worlds, and any attempt to compare them like that is going to be wildly inaccurate. Different markets, different culture, different everything.