August 11, 2025 • 31 mins
After Over 2000 Years Restaurants Are Dying | Karel Cast 25-109
For over 2,000 years, restaurants have been places to connect, celebrate, and explore new flavors — from ancient Greek taverns to Parisian cafés. But today, America’s dining scene is in crisis. In the first half of 2025, restaurants and bars saw one of the weakest six-month sales periods in a decade. Food costs are up over 20% since 2021, and some of my favorite spots have lost more than 30% of their business.
What’s causing the collapse? Inflation, shifting habits… or Donald Trump’s economy? If restaurants vanish, it’s not just about losing convenience — it’s about losing a core piece of our culture, history, and daily life.
Join me as I break down the history of restaurants, why they matter, and what it means if they disappear. Are we watching our way of life erode right in front of us?
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For over 2,000 years, restaurants have been places to connect, celebrate, and explore new flavors — from ancient Greek taverns to Parisian cafés. But today, America’s dining scene is in crisis. In the first half of 2025, restaurants and bars saw one of the weakest six-month sales periods in a decade. Food costs are up over 20% since 2021, and some of my favorite spots have lost more than 30% of their business.
What’s causing the collapse? Inflation, shifting habits… or Donald Trump’s economy? If restaurants vanish, it’s not just about losing convenience — it’s about losing a core piece of our culture, history, and daily life.
Join me as I break down the history of restaurants, why they matter, and what it means if they disappear. Are we watching our way of life erode right in front of us?
🔥 Uncensored. Unfiltered. Unhinged. This is The Karel Cast — streaming live Monday through Thursday at 10:30 AM PST on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
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Why, hello there, my little hamsters. I've decided if Dame
Edna could have possums. Hello, bossoms that I could have
little hamsters, because I used to have hamsters when I
was a kid and I loved them. They were fabulous
little pets. So you're all my little hamsters, and I'm
so glad you are joining with me today. Or Correl's Koalas,
you could all be my koalas. Hello, my koalas. Oh
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I like that Correl's kowala Us. So glad you are
joining me on this Monday, August eleventh, where it's going
to have record breaking temperatures this week in Las Vegas
today one hundred and eleven, tomorrow one hundred and twelve. Hey,
but what's a few, you know, degrees amongst friends. We've
got a lot to talk about today, and I want
to start with first of all, I didn't even get
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to address this last week. I was I'm a big
sci fi fan and I grew up with shows like
Space nineteen ninety nine, which was we watched in the
seventies thinking that's what it would look like in nineteen
ninety nine with Barbara Bain and Martin Landau. Loved the
show and it was about a moon base. They had
a moon base, and there's been other shows about moon
(02:41):
bases where they put prisons on the Moon, et cetera. Well,
the Trump administration has decided that we need a nuclear
power plant on the Moon. But the question becomes, why
are they going to run a I don't even know
how far the moon is a computer? How far is
the moon away? Let's ask this question. Come on, oh,
(03:06):
two hundred and forty three thousand miles, So we're gonna
need a whole lot of cable, Okay, gonna be like
the world's longest extension cord. Because how do they plan
to get the nuclear energy from the Moon back to
Planet Earth? Or have they not thought that far in
advance yet? Who can say?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
But I will tell you this, every single show that
I've seen where they put a base on the Moon,
it ends up not going well. Also, we don't own
the Moon, Okay, no country owns the Moon. So the
notion that we could build a base on the Moon
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on property that we don't own is sort of like
your neighbor deciding they're going to build a garage on
your house. So that was one of the absurd things
that came out of his mouth last week. Then he
was just driving back home. I guess in Washington, d C.
Back to the White House where he saw homeless people. Well,
(04:07):
I see them every day. You see them every day.
You have to live around them. I have to live
around them. Why because of a complete failure of government.
That's why. Well, what does Trump decide? He decides to
read Washington, d C of homeless people. But he's also
upset at the crime there. So he is now mobilized
his brown shirts, the equivalent, and they will go down
(04:30):
as this hey national guard in history. If you don't
want to go down like Hitler's brown Shirts, then maybe
you shouldn't obey this dictator. But whatever, So they're on
the streets now in DC. Now, as you know, d
C is controlled by Congress. It is not its own
self governing city, although they do have a mayor. It
is controlled by Congress, and so Trump has decided to
(04:54):
take it over. He's now making DC his own personal kingdom.
And in his kingdom there shall be no homeless and
no lawlessness. Now your kingdom, you could have him sleeping
on your lawn. You can have you know, pissing on
your garage. You can have them pooping on your car.
He don't care about that. Okay, He's allocated. No fund's
(05:17):
done nothing for the national homeless crisis, but he will
do it for where he lives. Proof that he only
cares about himself, that he is not fit to be
president just because he does not care about the people
of the United States. He only cares about him and
(05:38):
his ilk, and so he doesn't want to see homeless people.
He doesn't want crime. So he's going to create a
little utopia in Washington, d C. By being the dictator
of it. He's going to take it over. It's going
to be his domain. Sad, tragic, several other words come
to mind? Know what what other words you want to
(06:03):
come to mind? Could but just par for the course.
What was my headline that I wrote the other day
that I said was gonna be our our new headline
for day to day. I know that I put it
down here somewhere, and now I've lost it because this
is my note taking book. More harmful, outrageous, and infuriating
things happened today as Trump and MAGA continue to destroy America.
(06:27):
That's that's our headline, and that's good. I'm gonna have
to print that out because that's our headline every day.
More harmful, outrageous, and infuriating things happened today as Trump
and Maga Republicans continue to destroy America. He's also planning
a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. I guess he's
daring Putin to step foot in America. But whatever, you know,
(06:52):
and what's gonna come of that? Nothing? Because Zelenski has
already said, I don't care what Donald Trump is saying.
We ain't giving up any land of Latra Putin, and
so we have Zelenski, who should be the only person
meeting again. I just like I said about someone wanting
to build a garage on your property even though they
(07:13):
don't own it. Trump is trying to solve a war
that he's not involved in. Okay, we support the Ukrainian efforts,
but it is not our war. So what the frack
an American president negotiating a deal with the Russian president
on behalf of Ukraine? Who doesn't want Donald Trump? They
(07:34):
didn't ask Donald Trump. They don't want Donald Trump to
negotiate it. You know why isn't Zolenski again? You're because
Trump thinks he runs the world. I guess Beyonce was
wrong when she said who runs the world? Girls? I
guess we now have to redo it that with Trump
(07:55):
because in his mind he now runs Washington, DC, and
obviously he's in charge of every deal everywhere that must
be made for everything. You know, I watched The Gilded
Age last night was their finale, and the Russells are
supposed to be the Vanderbilts. And when you hear Carrie
(08:17):
Coon talk about the real billionaires and the real robber birds,
she does not have a fond place for the character
that she is portraying. And she says that most very
wealthy families are evil and the reason they do charity
work is to make themselves feel better about themselves and
(08:39):
to try to make the world see them in a
better light. She also said that today's billionaires don't even
do that anymore. They don't care. The masks are off,
they don't care if you think they're evil. They don't care.
And that is true. Most of them don't do charity
work anymore. Well, Trump, that's who he thinks he is.
(09:02):
He thinks he is the mover and shaker of the world.
And it's just so sad to see how it's playing out.
As Rachel Matt Matto said, in six months, we have
become a radically different nation. We are, in fact an
oligarchy and dictatorship. And each day he proves that more
and more and deploying the National Guard like his brown Shirts.
(09:25):
Everywhere he wants something done, he deploys the Guard that's
not even his. He can't really do that, but governors
are letting him or taking him to court, like Gavin Newsom.
So here we have this situation in DC where he's
going to clean up the homelessness, well because he didn't
want to look at it. Where's he gonna put him? Well,
(09:46):
in your town, of course. He doesn't care if they're
in your town. He doesn't care if they're destroying your area.
He just cares about his town. That's all he cares about.
The same with the Ukraine. He doesn't care if the
deal is good for Ukraine. He doesn't care if it
gives Ukraine what they've been fighting for. He just cares
(10:07):
about him getting credit for solving the problem. That's that's
all he cares about his dealmates. That's it, all right.
When we come back, we've had them since ancient Rome.
What are they about to go away? Well, all indications
(10:28):
points to get talk about that. Let me return. I'm
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In life, we all have things that we like to do, okay,
And for me, I love to eat out. Now it's
probably a psychological thing because growing up we didn't have
a lot of money to eat out, and so it
was a very big deal when my family went to
a pizza parlor or even a McDonald's because we were broke,
(11:34):
and I mean really broke, like got money from st
or got food from like Saint Vincent de Paul. They
didn't have meals on wheels back then, got food vouchers
from the Catholic Church or from other charities. We were poor,
like poor, and then we were on food stamps and
so we were poor. You know, I grew up poor,
and so going out to eat was a big deal,
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and it was. It made me feel happy to be
out with my family having food. So as an adult,
I love eating out. Andrew and I ate out all
the time. Even if we were dirt dirt poor, we'd
count change to go to Taco Bell, we really would.
We love to eat out. And then once we had
you know, jobs and money and such, we ate out
(12:17):
quite a bit. It's one of the reasons I review restaurants.
I love to eat out, and of course, of late,
much like you, that has become harder and harder, although
eating at home is now also extraordinarily pricey. So this
weekend we went to lunch Heath and Steve and I
at a Greek restaurant, not a high end, you know,
(12:41):
just a regular Greek restaurant and lunch for three people
where we just had an entree and a beverage. That
was it. That was it, and we all split one.
Dessert was one hundred and twenty bucks with tip, which
is forty bucks a person. Now you might think that
seems outrageous, but actually that is pretty much now the
going price to go out for lunch, between thirty and
(13:05):
forty dollars for lunch. There are some places you can
do fifteen to twenty. There are I don't know of
any place other than Taco Bell or something where you
can do under twenty dollars or under ten. So lunch
is expensive, and I started talking to Steve about this.
(13:26):
Yesterday I went to Chef Kenny's. I had the half
price Crispy beef, which was nine dollars. I had two
orders of dim sum, which combined with eighteen dollars, and
then a drink tax and tip thirty eight dollars for lunch.
And so I told Steve, I certainly can't sustain that.
(13:47):
I can't do that every day every other day. So
when I first moved to Vegas, I went to lunch
about three times a week. Now it's about three times
a month. So I started to do some research about
restaurants and their societal importance. But first the facts. The
cost of everything is. CNN ran a story on this
(14:12):
surging beef prices. I don't care about those hamburger meat
on the wholesale level. In July, prices were up twenty
one percent for restaurants compared to the same month ten
years ago. Federal data shows twenty one percent increase in
cost to restaurants. Their local cost are sky rocketing, and
(14:37):
they don't want to pass it on to the consumer
because then they'll just have to close. Their customers won't
come the prices of other restaurants staples, coffee, eggs, cocoa,
everything butter. In June, food cost overall were up twenty
one percent compared to the same month four years ago.
(15:00):
In other words, we were better under Joe Biden. Food
costs are up twenty one percent for restaurants compared to
the same month four years earlier. The rise in food
cost outpaced to seventeen and a half percent increase in
wholesale prices across the board, so all of their stuff
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is gone up seventeen and a half percent. Food has
gone up twenty one percent. And restaurants operate on a
very small margin, so they have a little tiny bit
of wiggle room before it cuts into their profits or
makes them raise their prices. Tomatoes are out of control,
(15:44):
so restauranteurs are feeling price pressure on that front, and
on the labor front. They have to pay their servers,
good servers more and they're you know, they're not making more,
so a lot of restaurants are closing Now, restaurants are
(16:05):
not a new new invention. Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome
had taverns, cookshops, and thermopolias. These were counters where hot
food and wine were sold, mostly to travelers or laborers
or people without kitchens. Back in the Roman times. In China,
as early as the Song dynasty, which is the tenth
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of thirteenth centuries, there were bustling eating restaurants with printed
menus and specialized cuisines. In the Middle Ages. In Europe,
inns and alehouses served travelers and locals. Now they were
more about lodging and drink, with food part of the package,
not separate restaurants as we think of them, but still
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they were preparing food and serving it to guest. The
birth of the water and restaurant came around in the
mid seventeen hundreds. Now the word restaurant comes from restorer
ristau r er, which means to restore, which makes sense. Paris,
in the mid seventeen hundreds, small shops sold broths and
(17:11):
other restoratives to the sick and to the tired. In
seventeen sixty five, a Parisian named Boulangere opened a shop
selling soups and dishes. That's why when you go to
a place that sells soups and sandwiches, it's called a
boulingerie because Boulanger opened the first restaurant selling soups and
dishes to restore health, and he used the word restaurant
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in the modern fashion. In post French Revolution in the
late seventeen hundreds, many chefs which were employed by the aristocrats. Okay,
the Aristo cats, that's a cartoon by the aristocrats. So
these chefs were employed by all these rich people. And
then after the French Revolution there weren't a lot of
rich people, so the chefs had to do something, so
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they opened public dyna rooms to use their skills and
to make money. Isn't that interesting. The chefs that worked
for the rich houses ended up having to open public
houses because the French overthrew the rich. And of course
these had menus, individual tables, and a wide variety of dishes,
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and that's in the late seventeen hundred seventeen sixty five.
By the late eighteen hundreds, restaurants spread to London, New
York and beyond, catering to travelers, urban professionals, and eventually
the middle class. Restaurants are culturally important. They're social hubs.
People meet friends there, conduct business in them, court romantic
(18:42):
partners there, hello. They're a cultural archive for regional cuisines.
They're the place where we learn food history. They're economic engines.
They employ millions of people, support farmers and fishers and
supply chains. Their innovation laboratory is for food. Food trends
often start in the restaurants, and there are public stages.
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A lot of people perform in restaurants. If they vanished,
we'd have a loss of cultural exchange, economic collapse in
many sectors. Urban life would be hugely impacted, social behavior
would be hugely impacted, and culinary diversity would disappear. So
even since the ancient to Egyptians and Roman times, we've
(19:29):
had some sort of way to buy food outside of
the house. Well, it looks like the days are numbered.
You can't afford to eat out. I have the numbers
to prove that. And the only ones that can nowadays
are actually the wealthy. If we're being very honest about it,
(19:50):
anyone above two hundred thousand a year, okay, they can
eat out, But restaurants can't survive on just the risk
do you eat out? How often do you read out?
Where do you go? I want these comments down below
or into chatroom as YouTube dot com forward slash Really Carrel.
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the chat room, everybody a grease, everybody a grease. Now.
When I said this to my niece yesterday, because she
knows how much I love to eat out, and she's
a chef, she said, Uncle Charles, eating at home is
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getting to be just as expensive, and she's right. So
I use a meal planner sometimes called Forks over Knives.
I highly recommend it. It's a great meal planner. You
pay for the year and every week they give you
a meal plan, and they give you, you know, shopping
and everything. And I went shopping for because the Hungry
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Root is one hundred and forty nine dollars a week
if you use Hungry Root, and that's for six meals
that serve two. So that's twelve meals, so for me
that's pretty much a week of food. But that's one
hundred and fifty three dollars. So I go to the
grocery store now with my forks over knife list. It
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was and this is just to make soups and stews
and sandwiches, two hundred and four dollars to buy a
week's worth of groceries. Two hundred. Vegan stuff has gone
through the roof. It used to be so cheap to
be a vegan. Even tofu, which used to be ninety
nine cents, is now two ninety nine, so three dollars.
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It's still cheaper than meat, but still lentils and beans
have gone up, up, up, up up. You know, I
can't the pizza oven that Daniel gave me. I use
it once a week because vegan meats like vegan pepperoni,
or vegan sausage. A package of impossible sausage four links,
(24:46):
ten dollars. That's two fifty a link. So eating at home,
you know. Fruits and vegetables, tomatoes two bucks a pound,
pineapples four dollars each, two fifty if you get them
on sale. Peaches a dollar fifty to two dollars for
eap each. I eat two cups of fruit a day.
(25:10):
Every day, I eat two cups of fruit. Do you
you should? That's the recommended daily allowance. But my god,
kiwis six dollars for a package of eight kiwis. So
eating at home is hugely expensive as well, and for
one person it almost becomes you know what do I do?
(25:33):
So Donald Trump's economy is killing restaurants and no one's
talking about it. In the chat room. All of you agree,
most of the middle of the road entrees are now
fifteen to twenty dollars burgers when you go to a
just a regular restaurant, not a drive through, just a
(25:55):
regular burger joint, burgers can be as hot. The vegan
burger at one of my restaurants is twenty two dollars
for a vegan smash burger with a salad, twenty two
dollars when you buy two impossible patties for ten dollars.
(26:15):
By the time you get the buns, lettuce, tomato, and
the potato to make the fries and everything else. Eating
is not a luxury. And as Donald Trump is only
concerned about himself, and he proved that again by concentrating
on the homeless in DC by concentrating on crime in
(26:36):
DC and not in your community and not in my community.
He doesn't fucking pay for food, Okay, he has no
idea how much food costs at a restaurant or for
the kitchen. None. He has no freaking clue, So why
would it be a problem for him. None of his
(26:56):
friends complain about it. Elon Muskeet complain about the price
of food. Warren Buffett ain't compelling. You know Mark Zuckerberg,
who yesterday was photographed on his three hundred million dollar yacht.
Sink that bitch. Sink that yacht and make it into
a coral reef. No one should have a three hundred
(27:17):
million dollar yacht. While we are worried about eating out,
we are in n stage capitalism. The system is collapsing
when citizens can't afford food. Over here at the pool
over the weekend, they did a food giveaway. They had
(27:39):
to turn people away and people were in line with
Tesla's with BMW's because it's a trade off either. My
friend I was not aware of this. My friend has
a truck that he needs for work. His truck payments
fourteen hundred dollars a month, can you imagine some of
you can actually, So what's given food? We don't have
(28:02):
the prices. What is the solution other than deprivation? Oh,
I'm strobe lighting, you know. I mean seriously, for people
who like to go out to eat like me are
and it's a social outlet for me. It's how I
see people, it's how I you know, going out to
(28:23):
eat isn't just about eating for me. I review the restaurants,
I learn about new food, I meet people for lunch
like Heath or Steve or whatever. It's not just going.
It's not just food. If you take that from me,
you're taking a huge part of my life, and it's
being taken. All America does now is take. I bet
(28:49):
I can afford to go out to eat in Portavarta.
All America does now from its citizens is take, and
it gives nothing back except drama, expense, financial uncertainty, medical uncertainty,
retirement uncertainty. America doesn't give us anything good anymore. All
(29:15):
it does is take. And now it is threatening to
end a two thousand year old tradition in modern world,
and an over twenty thousand year old tradition in you know,
ancient Rome and ancient Greece. When it comes to eating out,
(29:37):
even poor people in medieval times could eat out. They
didn't go to nice restaurants, but they could go into
a pub, get a drink and have a bowl of
stew or something. Even poor people could do that. Now.
Even McDonald's which was poor people food, Taco Bell which
(29:58):
was poor people food, even those places are hugely expected.
All right, we'll be back tomorrow. We're just getting the
week off. I'd love to hear your comments down below.
Thank you for chatting in the chat room, Sandy and
Phineas and James and Meredith and Ray Vernati and everybody.
John Slade where he went to a restaurant. It used
to be ten dollars in an entree, now it's fifteen
to twenty. I am frelb who you want to be
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but what's a few, you know, degrees amongst friends. We've
got a lot to talk about today, and I want
to start with first of all, I didn't even get
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to address this last week. I was I'm a big
sci fi fan and I grew up with shows like
Space nineteen ninety nine, which was we watched in the
seventies thinking that's what it would look like in nineteen
ninety nine with Barbara Bain and Martin Landau. Loved the
show and it was about a moon base. They had
a moon base, and there's been other shows about moon
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bases where they put prisons on the Moon, et cetera. Well,
the Trump administration has decided that we need a nuclear
power plant on the Moon. But the question becomes, why
are they going to run a I don't even know
how far the moon is a computer? How far is
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two hundred and forty three thousand miles, So we're gonna
need a whole lot of cable, Okay, gonna be like
the world's longest extension cord. Because how do they plan
to get the nuclear energy from the Moon back to
Planet Earth? Or have they not thought that far in
advance yet? Who can say?
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But I will tell you this, every single show that
I've seen where they put a base on the Moon,
it ends up not going well. Also, we don't own
the Moon, Okay, no country owns the Moon. So the
notion that we could build a base on the Moon
(03:47):
on property that we don't own is sort of like
your neighbor deciding they're going to build a garage on
your house. So that was one of the absurd things
that came out of his mouth last week. Then he
was just driving back home. I guess in Washington, d C.
Back to the White House where he saw homeless people. Well,
(04:07):
I see them every day. You see them every day.
You have to live around them. I have to live
around them. Why because of a complete failure of government.
That's why. Well, what does Trump decide? He decides to
read Washington, d C of homeless people. But he's also
upset at the crime there. So he is now mobilized
his brown shirts, the equivalent, and they will go down
(04:30):
as this hey national guard in history. If you don't
want to go down like Hitler's brown Shirts, then maybe
you shouldn't obey this dictator. But whatever, So they're on
the streets now in DC. Now, as you know, d
C is controlled by Congress. It is not its own
self governing city, although they do have a mayor. It
is controlled by Congress, and so Trump has decided to
(04:54):
take it over. He's now making DC his own personal kingdom.
And in his kingdom there shall be no homeless and
no lawlessness. Now your kingdom, you could have him sleeping
on your lawn. You can have you know, pissing on
your garage. You can have them pooping on your car.
He don't care about that. Okay, He's allocated. No fund's
(05:17):
done nothing for the national homeless crisis, but he will
do it for where he lives. Proof that he only
cares about himself, that he is not fit to be
president just because he does not care about the people
of the United States. He only cares about him and
(05:38):
his ilk, and so he doesn't want to see homeless people.
He doesn't want crime. So he's going to create a
little utopia in Washington, d C. By being the dictator
of it. He's going to take it over. It's going
to be his domain. Sad, tragic, several other words come
to mind? Know what what other words you want to
(06:03):
come to mind? Could but just par for the course.
What was my headline that I wrote the other day
that I said was gonna be our our new headline
for day to day. I know that I put it
down here somewhere, and now I've lost it because this
is my note taking book. More harmful, outrageous, and infuriating
things happened today as Trump and MAGA continue to destroy America.
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That's that's our headline, and that's good. I'm gonna have
to print that out because that's our headline every day.
More harmful, outrageous, and infuriating things happened today as Trump
and Maga Republicans continue to destroy America. He's also planning
a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. I guess he's
daring Putin to step foot in America. But whatever, you know,
(06:52):
and what's gonna come of that? Nothing? Because Zelenski has
already said, I don't care what Donald Trump is saying.
We ain't giving up any land of Latra Putin, and
so we have Zelenski, who should be the only person
meeting again. I just like I said about someone wanting
to build a garage on your property even though they
(07:13):
don't own it. Trump is trying to solve a war
that he's not involved in. Okay, we support the Ukrainian efforts,
but it is not our war. So what the frack
an American president negotiating a deal with the Russian president
on behalf of Ukraine? Who doesn't want Donald Trump? They
(07:34):
didn't ask Donald Trump. They don't want Donald Trump to
negotiate it. You know why isn't Zolenski again? You're because
Trump thinks he runs the world. I guess Beyonce was
wrong when she said who runs the world? Girls? I
guess we now have to redo it that with Trump
(07:55):
because in his mind he now runs Washington, DC, and
obviously he's in charge of every deal everywhere that must
be made for everything. You know, I watched The Gilded
Age last night was their finale, and the Russells are
supposed to be the Vanderbilts. And when you hear Carrie
(08:17):
Coon talk about the real billionaires and the real robber birds,
she does not have a fond place for the character
that she is portraying. And she says that most very
wealthy families are evil and the reason they do charity
work is to make themselves feel better about themselves and
(08:39):
to try to make the world see them in a
better light. She also said that today's billionaires don't even
do that anymore. They don't care. The masks are off,
they don't care if you think they're evil. They don't care.
And that is true. Most of them don't do charity
work anymore. Well, Trump, that's who he thinks he is.
(09:02):
He thinks he is the mover and shaker of the world.
And it's just so sad to see how it's playing out.
As Rachel Matt Matto said, in six months, we have
become a radically different nation. We are, in fact an
oligarchy and dictatorship. And each day he proves that more
and more and deploying the National Guard like his brown Shirts.
(09:25):
Everywhere he wants something done, he deploys the Guard that's
not even his. He can't really do that, but governors
are letting him or taking him to court, like Gavin Newsom.
So here we have this situation in DC where he's
going to clean up the homelessness, well because he didn't
want to look at it. Where's he gonna put him? Well,
(09:46):
in your town, of course. He doesn't care if they're
in your town. He doesn't care if they're destroying your area.
He just cares about his town. That's all he cares about.
The same with the Ukraine. He doesn't care if the
deal is good for Ukraine. He doesn't care if it
gives Ukraine what they've been fighting for. He just cares
(10:07):
about him getting credit for solving the problem. That's that's
all he cares about his dealmates. That's it, all right.
When we come back, we've had them since ancient Rome.
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In life, we all have things that we like to do, okay,
And for me, I love to eat out. Now it's
probably a psychological thing because growing up we didn't have
a lot of money to eat out, and so it
was a very big deal when my family went to
a pizza parlor or even a McDonald's because we were broke,
(11:34):
and I mean really broke, like got money from st
or got food from like Saint Vincent de Paul. They
didn't have meals on wheels back then, got food vouchers
from the Catholic Church or from other charities. We were poor,
like poor, and then we were on food stamps and
so we were poor. You know, I grew up poor,
and so going out to eat was a big deal,
(11:57):
and it was. It made me feel happy to be
out with my family having food. So as an adult,
I love eating out. Andrew and I ate out all
the time. Even if we were dirt dirt poor, we'd
count change to go to Taco Bell, we really would.
We love to eat out. And then once we had
you know, jobs and money and such, we ate out
(12:17):
quite a bit. It's one of the reasons I review restaurants.
I love to eat out, and of course, of late,
much like you, that has become harder and harder, although
eating at home is now also extraordinarily pricey. So this
weekend we went to lunch Heath and Steve and I
at a Greek restaurant, not a high end, you know,
(12:41):
just a regular Greek restaurant and lunch for three people
where we just had an entree and a beverage. That
was it. That was it, and we all split one.
Dessert was one hundred and twenty bucks with tip, which
is forty bucks a person. Now you might think that
seems outrageous, but actually that is pretty much now the
going price to go out for lunch, between thirty and
(13:05):
forty dollars for lunch. There are some places you can
do fifteen to twenty. There are I don't know of
any place other than Taco Bell or something where you
can do under twenty dollars or under ten. So lunch
is expensive, and I started talking to Steve about this.
(13:26):
Yesterday I went to Chef Kenny's. I had the half
price Crispy beef, which was nine dollars. I had two
orders of dim sum, which combined with eighteen dollars, and
then a drink tax and tip thirty eight dollars for lunch.
And so I told Steve, I certainly can't sustain that.
(13:47):
I can't do that every day every other day. So
when I first moved to Vegas, I went to lunch
about three times a week. Now it's about three times
a month. So I started to do some research about
restaurants and their societal importance. But first the facts. The
cost of everything is. CNN ran a story on this
(14:12):
surging beef prices. I don't care about those hamburger meat
on the wholesale level. In July, prices were up twenty
one percent for restaurants compared to the same month ten
years ago. Federal data shows twenty one percent increase in
cost to restaurants. Their local cost are sky rocketing, and
(14:37):
they don't want to pass it on to the consumer
because then they'll just have to close. Their customers won't
come the prices of other restaurants staples, coffee, eggs, cocoa,
everything butter. In June, food cost overall were up twenty
one percent compared to the same month four years ago.
(15:00):
In other words, we were better under Joe Biden. Food
costs are up twenty one percent for restaurants compared to
the same month four years earlier. The rise in food
cost outpaced to seventeen and a half percent increase in
wholesale prices across the board, so all of their stuff
(15:23):
is gone up seventeen and a half percent. Food has
gone up twenty one percent. And restaurants operate on a
very small margin, so they have a little tiny bit
of wiggle room before it cuts into their profits or
makes them raise their prices. Tomatoes are out of control,
(15:44):
so restauranteurs are feeling price pressure on that front, and
on the labor front. They have to pay their servers,
good servers more and they're you know, they're not making more,
so a lot of restaurants are closing Now, restaurants are
(16:05):
not a new new invention. Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome
had taverns, cookshops, and thermopolias. These were counters where hot
food and wine were sold, mostly to travelers or laborers
or people without kitchens. Back in the Roman times. In China,
as early as the Song dynasty, which is the tenth
(16:27):
of thirteenth centuries, there were bustling eating restaurants with printed
menus and specialized cuisines. In the Middle Ages. In Europe,
inns and alehouses served travelers and locals. Now they were
more about lodging and drink, with food part of the package,
not separate restaurants as we think of them, but still
(16:49):
they were preparing food and serving it to guest. The
birth of the water and restaurant came around in the
mid seventeen hundreds. Now the word restaurant comes from restorer
ristau r er, which means to restore, which makes sense. Paris,
in the mid seventeen hundreds, small shops sold broths and
(17:11):
other restoratives to the sick and to the tired. In
seventeen sixty five, a Parisian named Boulangere opened a shop
selling soups and dishes. That's why when you go to
a place that sells soups and sandwiches, it's called a
boulingerie because Boulanger opened the first restaurant selling soups and
dishes to restore health, and he used the word restaurant
(17:36):
in the modern fashion. In post French Revolution in the
late seventeen hundreds, many chefs which were employed by the aristocrats. Okay,
the Aristo cats, that's a cartoon by the aristocrats. So
these chefs were employed by all these rich people. And
then after the French Revolution there weren't a lot of
rich people, so the chefs had to do something, so
(17:58):
they opened public dyna rooms to use their skills and
to make money. Isn't that interesting. The chefs that worked
for the rich houses ended up having to open public
houses because the French overthrew the rich. And of course
these had menus, individual tables, and a wide variety of dishes,
(18:21):
and that's in the late seventeen hundred seventeen sixty five.
By the late eighteen hundreds, restaurants spread to London, New
York and beyond, catering to travelers, urban professionals, and eventually
the middle class. Restaurants are culturally important. They're social hubs.
People meet friends there, conduct business in them, court romantic
(18:42):
partners there, hello. They're a cultural archive for regional cuisines.
They're the place where we learn food history. They're economic engines.
They employ millions of people, support farmers and fishers and
supply chains. Their innovation laboratory is for food. Food trends
often start in the restaurants, and there are public stages.
(19:05):
A lot of people perform in restaurants. If they vanished,
we'd have a loss of cultural exchange, economic collapse in
many sectors. Urban life would be hugely impacted, social behavior
would be hugely impacted, and culinary diversity would disappear. So
even since the ancient to Egyptians and Roman times, we've
(19:29):
had some sort of way to buy food outside of
the house. Well, it looks like the days are numbered.
You can't afford to eat out. I have the numbers
to prove that. And the only ones that can nowadays
are actually the wealthy. If we're being very honest about it,
(19:50):
anyone above two hundred thousand a year, okay, they can
eat out, But restaurants can't survive on just the risk
do you eat out? How often do you read out?
Where do you go? I want these comments down below
or into chatroom as YouTube dot com forward slash Really Carrel.
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the chat room, everybody a grease, everybody a grease. Now.
When I said this to my niece yesterday, because she
knows how much I love to eat out, and she's
a chef, she said, Uncle Charles, eating at home is
(23:15):
getting to be just as expensive, and she's right. So
I use a meal planner sometimes called Forks over Knives.
I highly recommend it. It's a great meal planner. You
pay for the year and every week they give you
a meal plan, and they give you, you know, shopping
and everything. And I went shopping for because the Hungry
(23:39):
Root is one hundred and forty nine dollars a week
if you use Hungry Root, and that's for six meals
that serve two. So that's twelve meals, so for me
that's pretty much a week of food. But that's one
hundred and fifty three dollars. So I go to the
grocery store now with my forks over knife list. It
(24:01):
was and this is just to make soups and stews
and sandwiches, two hundred and four dollars to buy a
week's worth of groceries. Two hundred. Vegan stuff has gone
through the roof. It used to be so cheap to
be a vegan. Even tofu, which used to be ninety
nine cents, is now two ninety nine, so three dollars.
(24:24):
It's still cheaper than meat, but still lentils and beans
have gone up, up, up, up up. You know, I
can't the pizza oven that Daniel gave me. I use
it once a week because vegan meats like vegan pepperoni,
or vegan sausage. A package of impossible sausage four links,
(24:46):
ten dollars. That's two fifty a link. So eating at home,
you know. Fruits and vegetables, tomatoes two bucks a pound,
pineapples four dollars each, two fifty if you get them
on sale. Peaches a dollar fifty to two dollars for
eap each. I eat two cups of fruit a day.
(25:10):
Every day, I eat two cups of fruit. Do you
you should? That's the recommended daily allowance. But my god,
kiwis six dollars for a package of eight kiwis. So
eating at home is hugely expensive as well, and for
one person it almost becomes you know what do I do?
(25:33):
So Donald Trump's economy is killing restaurants and no one's
talking about it. In the chat room. All of you agree,
most of the middle of the road entrees are now
fifteen to twenty dollars burgers when you go to a
just a regular restaurant, not a drive through, just a
(25:55):
regular burger joint, burgers can be as hot. The vegan
burger at one of my restaurants is twenty two dollars
for a vegan smash burger with a salad, twenty two
dollars when you buy two impossible patties for ten dollars.
(26:15):
By the time you get the buns, lettuce, tomato, and
the potato to make the fries and everything else. Eating
is not a luxury. And as Donald Trump is only
concerned about himself, and he proved that again by concentrating
on the homeless in DC by concentrating on crime in
(26:36):
DC and not in your community and not in my community.
He doesn't fucking pay for food, Okay, he has no
idea how much food costs at a restaurant or for
the kitchen. None. He has no freaking clue, So why
would it be a problem for him. None of his
(26:56):
friends complain about it. Elon Muskeet complain about the price
of food. Warren Buffett ain't compelling. You know Mark Zuckerberg,
who yesterday was photographed on his three hundred million dollar yacht.
Sink that bitch. Sink that yacht and make it into
a coral reef. No one should have a three hundred
(27:17):
million dollar yacht. While we are worried about eating out,
we are in n stage capitalism. The system is collapsing
when citizens can't afford food. Over here at the pool
over the weekend, they did a food giveaway. They had
(27:39):
to turn people away and people were in line with
Tesla's with BMW's because it's a trade off either. My
friend I was not aware of this. My friend has
a truck that he needs for work. His truck payments
fourteen hundred dollars a month, can you imagine some of
you can actually, So what's given food? We don't have
(28:02):
the prices. What is the solution other than deprivation? Oh,
I'm strobe lighting, you know. I mean seriously, for people
who like to go out to eat like me are
and it's a social outlet for me. It's how I
see people, it's how I you know, going out to
(28:23):
eat isn't just about eating for me. I review the restaurants,
I learn about new food, I meet people for lunch
like Heath or Steve or whatever. It's not just going.
It's not just food. If you take that from me,
you're taking a huge part of my life, and it's
being taken. All America does now is take. I bet
(28:49):
I can afford to go out to eat in Portavarta.
All America does now from its citizens is take, and
it gives nothing back except drama, expense, financial uncertainty, medical uncertainty,
retirement uncertainty. America doesn't give us anything good anymore. All
(29:15):
it does is take. And now it is threatening to
end a two thousand year old tradition in modern world,
and an over twenty thousand year old tradition in you know,
ancient Rome and ancient Greece. When it comes to eating out,
(29:37):
even poor people in medieval times could eat out. They
didn't go to nice restaurants, but they could go into
a pub, get a drink and have a bowl of
stew or something. Even poor people could do that. Now.
Even McDonald's which was poor people food, Taco Bell which
(29:58):
was poor people food, even those places are hugely expected.
All right, we'll be back tomorrow. We're just getting the
week off. I'd love to hear your comments down below.
Thank you for chatting in the chat room, Sandy and
Phineas and James and Meredith and Ray Vernati and everybody.
John Slade where he went to a restaurant. It used
to be ten dollars in an entree, now it's fifteen
to twenty. I am frelb who you want to be
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