“It's a rough time for restaurants now. There's no reason to celebrate a restaurant closing. There's no reason to pile on. … I'm running a teeny, tiny little business. It's hard, man.”
Food and Loathing | Covering the Las Vegas Food Scene · Food & Beverage · October 2026
Context
Talking about a troubled local restaurant, the Las Vegas food writer says people shouldn't cheer a restaurant's trouble, drawing on what he knows from running his own small business.
Transcript
…whether they're my friends or not. So I don't know why people get all excited when something negative happens. Then again, I also do understand why people would be upset if they're not getting paychecks. So those people, you know, like you, you guys say whatever you guys want to say. Yeah, I mean,
…I do mean everybody, is finding their way. They're figuring it out. And yeah, hopefully they come to a way where everybody feels paid and taken care of, and that Sam and Cheryl and everybody feel like they can start taking their next steps. So, I mean, I'm not a gotcha person. So, you know what?
It's a rough time for restaurants now. Yeah. There's no reason to celebrate a fucking restaurant closing. There's no reason to pile on. And, you know, and then who knows what happens? I'm running a small business and I run a teeny, tiny little business. It's fucking hard, man. And they've got two restaurants. And, you know, I don't know what the fuck happens. I'm not, that's beyond my pay grade. So anyway, I'm going to leave it at that. If you were an employee and you want to come on and say your piece, you're welcome to come on. If it's Sam or Cheryl or anybody over there, I've already reached out. I've texted you guys. You're always welcome to come on and say your piece. But I can't get any more of the story out there. And I did feel like I wanted to explain that because I think people would be like, why aren't you reporting it? It's a fucking lot of time and effort to fucking track down the truth on the story.
You and I have had conversations at length on this, and I think it's worth taking a minute right now and just acknowledging that we don't do this because we're trying to tear people down. I mean, one of the things that's in all of my social media things is, you know, build longer tables and tear…
Yeah, and I've done that, by the way. I've done, I've covered some really low stories. I've just covered some negative things about good friends of mine. You know, I've done that. I've had people that are still pissed at me. And at that time, I was proud to do it. That was my job. My job was to…
Exactly. Yes, exactly. It's
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