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Federal Crackdown Killing DC Dining - Trump Lies on Cue
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It's not all partisan. Not every single miniscule thing in life is partisan politics.
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Toxic clueless as ever
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How do you know they were a commuters? Sounded
Like the one guy had a really , really Really bad day at work so maybe you're right
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Wasn't worried about hurting businesses during the unnecessary covid closings ...was you?WASHINGTON - The number of patrons dining out in D.C. has plummeted since President Trump deployed federal troops across the city, according to research conducted by OpenTable.
By the numbers:
The data shows that restaurant attendance was down every day last week compared with the same week in 2024. Beginning Monday, Aug. 11, seated diners in the District dropped by 16%. The largest drop off was last Wednesday, when the number of diners dipped by 31%. This was just two days after Trump ordered the National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington.
Despite these figures, Trump made mention of the state of D.C. dining during a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, saying that restaurants in the District are more crowded than they've been in a long time.
"The press says, ‘He’s a dictator, he’s trying to take over.’ No, all I want is security for our people. But people who haven’t gone out to dinner in Washington, D.C., in two years are going out to dinner, and the restaurants the last two days were busier than they’ve been in a long time," the president said.
Trump also claimed that he has friends who feel safe enough to have dinner in D.C. again since the federal takeover.
"Friends are calling me up, Democrats are calling me up. And they’re saying, ‘Sir, we want to thank you. My wife and I went out to dinner last night for the first time in four years, and Washington, D.C., is safe and you did that in four days,’" Trump added.
Khalid Pitts, co-owner of Cork Wine Bar in Northwest D.C., said that with the "firing of federal workers" and the "uneasiness in the city," his business has seen numbers go down in recent weeks.
"Hospitality is about welcoming people," he said. "I can't welcome people through my doors if (they're) afraid to go out of (their) doors."
He says his guests feel like they're "living in a police state."
"That is what we are hearing from guests," he said.
DC restaurant dining plunges as Trump's crime crackdown continues
The number of patrons dining out in D.C. has plummeted since President Trump deployed federal troops across the city, according to research conducted by OpenTable.www.fox5dc.com
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Made no comment on my feelings. Are you all right?
Complete BullShit....the comparison is between now and the week before the crackdown, not last year. It is no shock that restaurants are doing poorly, I have heard that restaurants all through Europe are half empty, as is Vegas....this is about broad economic problems not the cleaning up of DC.
That’s exactly what he’s doing. Just part of his Revenge Tour.
More bullshit numbers from the always lying-left:WASHINGTON - The number of patrons dining out in D.C. has plummeted since President Trump deployed federal troops across the city, according to research conducted by OpenTable.
By the numbers:
The data shows that restaurant attendance was down every day last week compared with the same week in 2024. Beginning Monday, Aug. 11, seated diners in the District dropped by 16%. The largest drop off was last Wednesday, when the number of diners dipped by 31%. This was just two days after Trump ordered the National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington.
Despite these figures, Trump made mention of the state of D.C. dining during a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, saying that restaurants in the District are more crowded than they've been in a long time.
"The press says, ‘He’s a dictator, he’s trying to take over.’ No, all I want is security for our people. But people who haven’t gone out to dinner in Washington, D.C., in two years are going out to dinner, and the restaurants the last two days were busier than they’ve been in a long time," the president said.
Trump also claimed that he has friends who feel safe enough to have dinner in D.C. again since the federal takeover.
"Friends are calling me up, Democrats are calling me up. And they’re saying, ‘Sir, we want to thank you. My wife and I went out to dinner last night for the first time in four years, and Washington, D.C., is safe and you did that in four days,’" Trump added.
Khalid Pitts, co-owner of Cork Wine Bar in Northwest D.C., said that with the "firing of federal workers" and the "uneasiness in the city," his business has seen numbers go down in recent weeks.
"Hospitality is about welcoming people," he said. "I can't welcome people through my doors if (they're) afraid to go out of (their) doors."
He says his guests feel like they're "living in a police state."
"That is what we are hearing from guests," he said.
DC restaurant dining plunges as Trump's crime crackdown continues
The number of patrons dining out in D.C. has plummeted since President Trump deployed federal troops across the city, according to research conducted by OpenTable.
Did Restaurant Reservations Really Plunge Because of Trump's DC Takeover?
~Media reports yesterday claimed that Donald Trump’s federalization of DC policing had led to a huge plunge in restaurant reservations.
Data from OpenTable shows that relative to the same calendar dates last year, reservations at DC restaurants were down by 20 percent or more from August 11th through August 17th, troughing out at 31 percent below 2024 levels on Wednesday 13th August (see graph below from Fox5 DC). Comparing the Monday to Sunday week directly (August 11-17th 2025 vs. August 12-18th 2024), dining was down 24 percent this year.
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Were DC’s 2025 restaurant goers really so skittish about humvees at Union Station and the prospect of military patrols in Dupont Circle that almost a third cancelled their dinner plans or avoided DC entirely?
I was skeptical of such a big effect, especially because the drop-off trend turned downwards before Donald Trump’s announcement and then stuck through the week even when it became obvious there were no large-scale and violent counter-protests. That got me thinking: perhaps there was something weird going on with last year’s data, such that the relative drop-off for 2025 actually reflected an elevated number of reservations in 2024?
Well, it turns out that August 12 through August 18th 2024 was last year’s DC summer Restaurant Week, which this year only began on August 18th. Restaurant Week is a promotional dining event where (over 350) participating restaurants offered special fixed-price menus in 2024 for the duration of the week, and sometimes beyond. A major aim is to boost reservation rates in the lean summer period, as a means of introducing diners to new restaurants.
The result is that seated reservation rates were likely inflated relative to “normal” for almost the entire equivalent week in 2024 (sadly OpenTable doesn’t have the longer time series publicly available to confirm, though I’ve asked for it). It therefore stands to reason that the year-on-year downturn being widely reported for this past week was exaggerated by the comparison from an artificially higher baseline in 2024.
Did Restaurant Reservations Really Plunge Because of Trump's DC Takeover?
Update: new data since publication vindicates the hypothesis outlined in this piece.
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IOW- MORE LIES TO SREVE THE LEFT AGENDA
We see who " LIES ON CUE ", don't we?
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Pesky details...More bullshit numbers from the always lying-left:
Did Restaurant Reservations Really Plunge Because of Trump's DC Takeover?
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Media reports yesterday claimed that Donald Trump’s federalization of DC policing had led to a huge plunge in restaurant reservations.
Data from OpenTable shows that relative to the same calendar dates last year, reservations at DC restaurants were down by 20 percent or more from August 11th through August 17th, troughing out at 31 percent below 2024 levels on Wednesday 13th August (see graph below from Fox5 DC). Comparing the Monday to Sunday week directly (August 11-17th 2025 vs. August 12-18th 2024), dining was down 24 percent this year.
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Were DC’s 2025 restaurant goers really so skittish about humvees at Union Station and the prospect of military patrols in Dupont Circle that almost a third cancelled their dinner plans or avoided DC entirely?
I was skeptical of such a big effect, especially because the drop-off trend turned downwards before Donald Trump’s announcement and then stuck through the week even when it became obvious there were no large-scale and violent counter-protests. That got me thinking: perhaps there was something weird going on with last year’s data, such that the relative drop-off for 2025 actually reflected an elevated number of reservations in 2024?
Well, it turns out that August 12 through August 18th 2024 was last year’s DC summer Restaurant Week, which this year only began on August 18th. Restaurant Week is a promotional dining event where (over 350) participating restaurants offered special fixed-price menus in 2024 for the duration of the week, and sometimes beyond. A major aim is to boost reservation rates in the lean summer period, as a means of introducing diners to new restaurants.
Did Restaurant Reservations Really Plunge Because of Trump's DC Takeover?
Update: new data since publication vindicates the hypothesis outlined in this piece.
IOW- MORE LIES TO SERVE THE LEFYY AGENDA