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BirdLawyerPerson t1_ja9sipv wrote

Reply to comment by fidel1o in Things DC does really well by erichinnw

There's a floor plan requirement, too, where at least half of the seats in an establishment must be at tables or booths, rather than at the bar. So there aren't the traditional narrow bars like in most cities, where you walk in and it's a few high tops plus the bar itself.

Throw in the food requirement (and more importantly, the requirement that the kitchen always be serving full entrees while alcohol is being served), and you basically don't have bars in Virginia.

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FoggyBottomBreakdown t1_ja9se8u wrote

Link to the lawsuit: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.252218/gov.uscourts.dcd.252218.1.2.pdf

Upon a quick read, sounds like plaintiff law student fucked around by commenting on group chats and Zoom meetings and found out.

Edit: I just got to the anti-vax part. Damn this a long speaking complaint.

Edit 2: I cannot imagine suing classmates and the law school, being in the bottom half of the curve and losing an academic scholarship, and still going back to law school after this.

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The_4th_Little_Pig t1_ja9s1oy wrote

Rent control is not detrimental to builders, only to owners of the buildings who can continue to control high rent with inferior products. If their building is going to go into disrepair or the amenities are inferior they don’t deserve to be part of the current market. I know with current rent control, rent prices can rise higher than the current inflationary raises through capital investments and that should continue.

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BirdLawyerPerson t1_ja9rlxf wrote

Reply to comment by resdivinae in Things DC does really well by erichinnw

Not only that, they must also have a certain percentage of their floor space and seats in a traditional dining room setting.

So even if they're serving enough food to cover the revenue requirement, it'd be illegal to open a bar that just has a bar and barstools.

Plus they're not allowed to keep the bar open for drinks unless the kitchen is also open for food orders.

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ksixnine t1_ja9r84s wrote

Ok.

Would you rather make $114 or $200 on a given 7 hour shift?

And, do you understand how the tip credit worked?

Healthcare as a bonus is wonderful - the thing is it could have been incorporated while keeping the tip credit in play.

Edit* it also depends on what the owner wants to do with the service fee: in many cases it is used for healthcare/ inflation, in some cases it is used to pay the kitchen higher wages, etc.. there isn’t any law stating what that money has to go towards.

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moosedogmonkey12 t1_ja9qnnp wrote

Denver is a terrible city. The draw is the outdoors, and frankly I think a lot of people move to Denver and find that that is overblown - it’s a plains city, you still have to drive to the mountains! Big controversial opinion here but I actually think the best city/outdoor activity ratio is actually Boston and its immediate suburbs like Cambridge.

I don’t live in Denver, I live in a much smaller city in Colorado now. I’d move back to DC in a heartbeat over moving to Denver proper, because the truth is that for a 9-5er most of the time you’re in the city anyway so that’s the place you really gotta like. I also would take DC type transient-ness (job based) over the Denver type (ski bros 🤮). Of course, DC is my home and I was the token local of the friend group there so I’m biased. Now I’m just another transplant.

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h3llalam3 t1_ja9qh51 wrote

There’s a place called reformation fitness that you might like. It’s reformer Pilates but they make it accessible for all fitness levels. One is on barracks row and there’s another location in Shaw.

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