{"id":2159,"date":"2007-03-01T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/or_at_least_make_the_prices_match_does_anyone_in_city_government_read_chinese.html"},"modified":"2007-03-01T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T18:04:38","slug":"or_at_least_mak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/or_at_least_mak.html","title":{"rendered":"Or At Least Make The Prices Match . . . Does Anyone In City Government Read Chinese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/yes_its_more_ex.html\">differential pricing<\/a> was really just the difference between a take-out and and eat-in, when you have the mayor publicly rebuking you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/501593p-423014c.html\">things have spun out of control<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If nobody goes to that restaurant, then they won&#8217;t make any money and they&#8217;ll go out of business,&#8221; Bloomberg said when asked about the Daily News&#8217; exclusive Sunday story on the Canal Seafood Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unconscionable to use race on any of these things, in terms of what kind of service, or how you charge, or whatever,&#8221; Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go patronize a different [restaurant.] Let capitalism work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has denied the allegations, saying it has one menu for takeout and another for customers who eat in the restaurant.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if the differential pricing was really just the difference between a take-out and and eat-in, when you have the mayor publicly rebuking you, things have spun out of control: &#8220;If nobody goes to that restaurant, then they won&#8217;t make any money and they&#8217;ll go out of business,&#8221; Bloomberg said when asked about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,63,61,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-feed","category-grandstanding","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}