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“Workers of the world unite! The only thing you have to lose is your chains!” Of course, Karl Marx left out that communism will also lose you your income when the payer goes broke. Of course, our uber-progressive, superwoke society contains a significant number of people who believe true socialism and communism don’t fail — they just haven’t been properly implemented. Well, like all big ideas, small-scale trials are the best way to determine whether or not an idea will work on a large scale, and as a Grand Rapids, Michigan restaurant owner discovered, Marxism is a one-way ticket to bankruptcy. Duh.
The Garden Diner and Cafe, a vegan, vegetarian, and raw food restaurant, naturally, had won much national acclaim for its menu. Yes, the Marxist restaurant was a vegan restaurant. I’m as shocked as you are. Anyway, its business plan did not allow any management, promised an equal, living wage for its employees, and decisions were made collectively. This led to business hours being erratic, long lines, and poor service. They didn’t even allow tips for good service. Apparently, customers don’t enjoy waiting 40 minutes for a sandwich while the employees take an extended lunch break for wheatgrass tea, couscous, and a bean burger with lettuce for a bun. And I’m sure those bean burgers caused employees to emit the most noxious of greenhouse gases, if you get my drift.
Finally, some customers didn’t enjoy the politicism of menu items. Frankly, I’d tell an employee to shove their side of “Che Guevara” where the sun doesn’t shine. Then, in a friendly gesture, the restaurant offered a free meal to local police officers as a thank you for keeping the neighborhood safe. This didn’t go over well with their local uber-progressive, superwoke clientele, who complained the restaurant was supporting fascist white police. WHOA. Chill. Nowadays, with the country so absurdly polarized, it’s probably best to keep your opinions to yourself in business, because believe it or not, not everyone will agree with you. Or at least you allow and tolerate a balance of various opinions. I know, I’ll give you a second to recover from that bombshell.
The restaurant owner must not have paid attention in history class because all the issues that led to the restaurant’s downfall are the same issues that have caused communism to fail around the world, whether it be Soviet-style communism or a ridiculous attempt at true Marxism. Eventually, the lack of motivation of the employees, the high wages, and, ultimately, the lack of profits, caused the restaurant to be financially unsustainable and Comrade Owner had to put it up for sale. Too bad victims of communism around the world can’t recover their losses as well. Now he’s going on vacation, apparently, and my guess is it’s not to mingle with the proletariat. .
[via Heat Street]
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Feel like a vegan, vegetarian, raw food restaurant would probably go out of business even if it wasn’t being run incompetently.
You underestimate the vegan power of grand rapids, my friend.
The end of the world cannot come soon enough.
Name checks out
I was ready when Salon tried to normalize pedophilia
Example #585950020484822 that proves that socialism doesn’t work. How many more are needed before people get it?
Problem is people always believe they are entitled to more than they get.
Technically, this is more communism than socialism.
True but i doubt Stalin would have put up with this bullshit.
I’d have no problem living in Sweden, sans all the snow though.
until you see how much booze costs
Or people just get tired of seeing a small portion of the population have so much…. and once again I’ll see my leftist ass out.
Wealth isn’t zero sum. It’s not a pie that the rich are keeping the majority of. Its an ever expanding forest. The problem is that people keep trying to fight over the same trees instead of going out and looking for their own.
“Fight over the same trees instead of looking for your own.” Gotta put that in a speech to college campuses everywhere.
How many trees does Girl get from her dad every month?
Yes there are some people that have too much but if you are going to complain of someone in the upper middle class while you are in the lower middle, then contribute more or leave to a job that respects what you contribute. It’s childish to want more for a lower tier position when you can get educated if you wanted to. Or don’t that’s a right as well
Okay, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with these dumb systems of socio-economic structures, why don’t we all just ban together and light everything on fire and rape and pillage all the evil rich people that are fucking up the planet for everyone else like the good old days and stuff? Start with the Rothschilds, then the Rockefellers, let’s burn the Federal Reserve to the ground and then carpet bomb Wall Street and then demolish every Walmart and once that’s done after we use all the fuel from the fossil fuel companies, we scorch them to hell too
I agree, burn the whole motherfuckers down!!
Name checks out
That’s the attitude that made you SEC Champion from 1864-65
You ok from that LSD you took over the werkend?
3 things I was sure of when I opened this column: Death, Taxes, and a classic Nived post.
As a GR native I have a few thing to add… the original vegan restaurant was called Cult Pizza. It was a suicide themed pizza restaurant that was wildly popular. The group expanded into Barter Town, the second next door venue. At that point the employee owned theme took off. The employees drove their vegan owner crazy from stress and he was hospitalized for a heart condition. He was told he cannot return to work. That was the reason for his sale. The employees couldn’t keep up when they all took over.
I live and work in GR and this place is down the street from my office. My fiancee and I ate there once because we had a groupon (note that neither of us are vegetarian). Overall the food was decent but the employees definitely had the stereotypical upity vegan attitude about them which I guess I should have expected. With that said, it doesn’t surprise me at all what you said about the owner having to quit because of them.
Lolz.
I went to this place with my ex-gf a few times (she was vegan) and the food was pretty good (would’ve been better with meat) but I knew the business model wouldn’t last. Lo and behold, here we are.
I legitimately thought this was satire until I saw the news link.
Had my money on San Francisco! This guy should’ve known better after Kent County went for Donald J. Trump.
Relax, guy.