rant · moment 18 of 34
NYC's Pandemic Outdoor Dining Sheds
from #231 - Giuliani And The River of Gold | The Tim Dillon Show · #231
3 min
Tim describes New York's makeshift outdoor dining structures looking like horse stalls, and questions the logic of outdoor tents versus proper ventilation, while noting declining restaurant quality catering to tourists.
- NYC outdoor dining sheds look like horse stalls or Christmas tree stands built from wood and plastic.
- Tim questions how virus transmission supposedly doesn't happen in tents or uninsulated outdoor buildings.
- Companies avoid opening because installing proper negative airflow filtration systems is prohibitively expensive.
- Quality of NYC dining has declined precipitously since the pandemic.
- Restaurants now target foreign tourists and corporate expense accounts rather than locals saving for special occasions.
- Celebrity chefs from the 90s left their restaurants to build mini empires instead of cooking, replaced by line cooks and sous chefs.
- Corporate money that used to fund strip clubs and company vice in the Mad Men era may have shifted into restaurant spending.
- High-end steakhouses used to have girls who'd hang out; now restaurants charge a thousand dollars for a baked potato with caviar instead.
- The actual baked potato has become expensive garbage to justify inflated bills.