Boy, I’ve never heard someone complain and whine as much as the owner of Wool & Vine. Considering the store is essentially a rich couple’s hobby (who also took a $3,000 handout from the LEDC) which wasn’t even open five months before Wuhan hit, she sure has a lot of nerve complaining about “tough times”.
Such a brave trooper! You owned an eatery/bar for an entire 4.5 months before the Wuhan Flu hit.…and as I recall, you were open about 25 hours a week, if that. It’s really more of a lemonade stand than a real business, if you ask me.
I was originally planning on never setting foot in there anyways. Not because their t-shirts are hideous...but because the owners are rabid bleeding-heart liberals. I make it a point never to put a dime in the pocket of a liberal. It’s the same reason I’ll never pay to see an Alec Baldwin or Sean Penn movie. I love voting with my wallet.
But even all of that wouldn’t push me to slam them publicly. I was just going to quietly watch them fail on their own accord. No….it was the owner’s Wuhan-nanny-state-mask-smugness and her publicly ratting out another restaurant for “Covid violations” that spurred me to do this. Sorry Julie/Karen!
Here is a quick timeline of the entire existence of Wool & Vine:
November 8, 2019: Ribbon cutting ceremony. From the operating hours I saw back then on Google, they were open roughly 22 or 25 hours a week. A part-time gig, if you will. The owners are artsy-fartsy types. The ones who usually suck at math, market research, accounting and so forth. They are the types that say “I love flowers! I’ll open a flower store!” or “I love liver pate! I’ll open a bistro!” without knowing a damn thing about running a biz. Then wonder later why it all fell apart.
Mid-March, 2020: (Four months later). Wuhan Flu hits and they are forced to close. Now mind you, they SUBLET a very small space from My Girls (who also received $2,500 in LEDC funds) so their rent is likely very low, and were only open part-time (i.e. a lemonade stand). I’m not even sure they actually EMPLOY anybody! So they weren’t exactly being crushed by Wuhan like most REAL small businesses. But they gladly hoovered up those free tax dollars!!
June 12, 2020: They were SO damaged by the Wuhan Flu that they decided to open up ANOTHER new place! The Hidden Pearl! Not exactly the actions of a couple who are hurting for money.
Late June, 2020: Lots of math-challenged #Karens and retarded liberals start to panic over the fact the Wuhan Flu is still spreading (duh!) even as DEATHS plummet…so we are subjected to a SECOND shutdown/pause. The irony here is that Julie Cain Landrum’s (the bleeding-heart liberal) OWN BUSINESS is now being affected by an entire army of bleeding heart liberals who do not understand statistics and math.
The irony is, of course, delicious. Unfortunately, all of us with brains are also being hurt by their ignorance.
But it doesn’t end there. Julie Cain Landrum of Wool & Vine then publicly lambastes another restaurant in town for “not following the rules”. This is a #Karen move of biblical proportions and I cannot let that pass.
Such a hero! Such a martyr! Such a SNITCH!!!
Hilariously, her friend is ACTUALLY NAMED KAREN! My god.
Here is a chick/couple who has owned a ‘business’ for all of six months AND already got bailed out by the taxpayers and she is whining about her situation. Here’s an idea! Why don’t you and Andrew just pull up stakes and move to Portland! Or maybe San Francisco! It is a paradise. You can participate in BLM marches every day and cater to doofuses like your husband all night long. It’ll be perfect!
As for you blaming your woes on the fact you think you can’t compete with “Covid cheaters” and publicly pissing and moaning, perhaps it’s something else. Maybe your business idea sucks. Maybe your location sucks. Maybe a lot of people are turned off by your radical leanings. Maybe your food is crap. Who knows.
But I WILL let you in on a little secret, so you can stop feeling so put upon:
Owning ANY small business sucks. You deal with employees who no-call/no-show….with suppliers who screw up orders…with customers who are pains in the ass but you have to smile and pretend they are right. Even in NORMAL times, it is a thankless job. The restaurant/bar/eatery industry is even WORSE. That is why 60% fail in their first year and 80% by the fifth year. Like all my restaurant-owner buddies say: owning a restaurant is like owning an elephant – it costs a fortune and sooner or later it shits on your head.
The small business owner has to watch giant corporations get bailed out while he gets nothing. Everyone gets paid before him: his employees, his landlord, the insurance company, the utility company, his suppliers, the parasites in local government, the parasites in the federal government, and THEN after everyone else has gotten their chunk….THEN the small business owner can pay himself. And let me tell you this: those first few YEARS when you divide your take-home pay by the hours you worked (i.e. – all the time) you find you would have been better off working at McDonald’s for minimum wage.
So please, do us all a favor. Take your $3,000 in free tax dollars and just shut your yap.…and stop being a Covid snitch.
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.” – George Orwell
