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Decimated: KC hotel manager describes hospitality industry amid coronavirus pandemic
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Decimated. Devastated. That's what one hotel manager describes the hospitality business because of the coronavirus pandemic. In the last few days, The Sheraton announced it would temporarily close. The Loews Hotel, part of the long-awaited downtown convention center, delayed its opening and didn't provide a time when it would open.
Well why in the hell didn't you set some money aside for an emergency or rain y day!
ReplyDeleteThose rich white people just in it for instant gratification.
DeleteIf you'd have gotten rich you wouldn't have had to worry about this shit.
ReplyDeleteThey got rich and invested it in derivatives.
Deletethe Muehlebach Hotel was closing rooms last year in the so-called best of times. So the new downtown hotel is doomed.
ReplyDeleteThey were only ten percent full to begin with, this sounds more like they expect the city to give them money.
ReplyDeleteOf course Trump Hotels will get Trumpvirus welfare so the locals expect it too. Then back to anti-socialist propaganda ASAP.
Deletethe growth did appear manic and overdone.
ReplyDeleteYup, The James Administration and Council betrayed every Hotel in Kansa City when they poured TIF funds into the new garbage!
ReplyDeleteBut, that's how you keep the bribes rolling in - nobody got elected to just make the salary (the very adequate salary) that comes with the job.
Since Coucilman Quinton could not read the previous Loews hotel agreement and could not find the $ 5 Million of taxpayer liablities...Mayor Quinton should NOT be allowed to negotiate anything for the city in his crisis. Contracts lawyer Quinton, Law Professor Quinton is just a well-spoken stuffed shirt. His two years in a private sector law firm billing $500.00 an hour does not qualify him for anything. Hes a product of the projects and reliance on big government. His answer to potholes was to hire a Czar... to replicate the job function already in the city budget.
ReplyDeleteSimply, ignorant.
The hotel industry in flyover country will be decimated. The virus will limit travel for months if not years.
ReplyDelete@1:01, are you saying we might get fewer that 20 Million Tourists this year? Zut allors!
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, the city passed a budget like nothing happened. The only winner in times like these is government - they can never do with less.
ReplyDeleteThey say the average worker lives "paycheck to paycheck" looks like the rich business owner does as well as far as their business goes. When all of these businesses say they will go out of business just less than a few weeks after being shut down is crazy! Obviously they arent as rich as they thought they were, Thanks Corvid-19 for extracting the truth.
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