Owned by Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta, Landry’s has furloughed approximately 70 percent of its workforce nationwide. Landry’s operates a number of high-profile Houston restaurants including Mastro’s, Vic & Anthony’s, Del Frisco’s, Willie G’s, and Grotto. Nationally, its brands include Saltgrass Steakhouse, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, and Rainforest Cafe.
Despite the setbacks, Fertitta remains optimistic about his company’s prospects. He’s hoping that authorities who have closed restaurant dining rooms will allow them to reopen in a few weeks.
Holy shit, Bernie just popped off on the Senate floor
Transcript: And now I find that some of my Republican colleagues are very distressed. They’re very upset that somebody who is making ten, twelve bucks an hour might end up with a paycheck—for four months!—more than they received last week. Oh my G-d! The universe is collapsing.
Imagine that. Somebody who’s making 12 bucks an hour, now like the rest of us, faces an unprecedented economic crisis, with the 600 bucks on top of their normal- their regular unemployment check- might be making a few bucks more for four months. Oh my WORD! Will the universe survive?
How absurd and wrong is that? What kind of value system is that? Meanwhile, these very same folks had no problem, a couple years ago, voting for a trillion dollars in tax breaks for billionaires and large profitable corporations! Not a problem!
But when it comes to low-income workers in the midst of a terrible crisis, maybe some of them earning or having more money than they previously made- [tongue clicks] oh my word we gotta strip that out. Gotta- we gotta tell those poor people that no matter what-
By the way when this bill, when the McConnell bill first came up, unbelievably, and I know many Republicans objected to this, they were saying that well we wanna give a, whatever it was, a thousand or twelve hundred bucks, but poor people should get less.
You see, because poor people are down here, they don’t deserve- they don’t eat. They don’t pay rent. They don’t go to the doctor; they’re somehow inferior, because they’re poor we’re gonna give them less.
Well that was addressed. Now everybody is gonna get the 1200 dollars. But some of our Republican friends still have not given up of the need to punish the poor and working people.
You haven’t raised the minimum wage in ten years! Minimum wage should be at least fifteen bucks an hour, you haven’t done that!
You’ve cut program, after program, after program, and now horror of horrors, for four months, workers might be earning a few bucks more than they otherwise would. Well needless to say, this— (audio cuts off as video ends).
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Not enough toilets – and the ones there are often dirty. Beds crammed together. The only way to shower is with water from a bucket that everyone has to share. No soap or hand sanitizer.
People who’ve been quarantined in India for suspected exposure to coronavirus say conditions inside government facilities are unsanitary and unsafe — ripe to foment an outbreak rather than prevent one. Indians are posting photos and videos on social media of dirty sheets, broken toilets and trash littering crowded quarantine centers.
The World Health Organization says the arc of the global pandemic may depend on what huge, densely-populated countries like India do next.
Dr. Who and the Daleks will be released on Blu-ray on July 7 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The 1965 British science fiction film is the first of two based on the Doctor Who television series.
Gordon Flemyng (The Split) directs from a script by Milton Subotsky (Tales from the Crypt). Peter Cushing stars as the Doctor with Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, and Roberta Tovey.
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