After 2,000 Years, Are Restaurants Facing Extinction? | Karel Cast 25-109

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

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 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, 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?

Back to the White House where he saw homeless people. Well, 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

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 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 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 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 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. 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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.

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, 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 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

points to get talk about that. Let me return. I'm gonna check the chatroom at YouTube dot com forward slash really Corell. Want to support the Corell cast, then like and subscribe the YouTube videos at the really Corel channel. Just go to YouTube dot com forward slash really Correl, that's ki e L and subscribe to the most exciting YouTube stream available today.

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, 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 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, 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 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. 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. 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 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 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. 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 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, 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 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 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

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 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 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 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, 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

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. 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 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, 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. Hey Carrel here, and I'd like to take a moment to thank all the patrons at Patreon. Your support means

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patreon dot com, forward slash relye Corell. Without you, I really could not do this. I would not have the money to do it, and I'd have to stop. So if you're not a patron, please become one. Everybody in 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

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 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 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.

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, 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. 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? 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 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. 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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 from the Hurt anybody leave tune in Hall during the week and followed me on social media like the scribe comment on the videos Make it Happen children.