pandemic being shut down completely to take to make sure we giving a great experience to our guest. that s a sad day. because we are ready to honeymoon. when you open a restaurant and you honeymoon and make back all those start-up costs in this case we are coming out of debt. we lost revenue and if we have 650 employees i have the luxury of cutting back mom and pop as to not. john was asking what are we doing to incentivize. i didn t hear an answer to that. steve: well, joe biden said we gave restaurant all this money and they stayed open. but one other part of britney, about the way you explained the honeymoon fades with restaurants is after covid the people came back, your customers came back, but the workers didn t come back. and that is because the federal government has been paying everybody an additional 300 bucks a week. although they have derailed it in a couple of states, to stay at home. and they also said that it s a
here. i know joe or john very, very well. john lanny who is speaking. i think he was dumbfounded by the answer. and so, you know, i would like to bring light and some clarity to some of the statements that were made. one in particular was that, you know, we just need to pay more than $7 or $8 an hour that i don t know a restaurant brart in this city that is paying 6, 7 an hour. i think when you consider what he mentioned aed about the favor that he did not shutting us down, i mean, here is a here is a devastating time and we really, really need, people think we are out of the clear. we are not. we opened our doors back up. the guests came. the employees unfortunately have not. and, for us, you know, jeff ruby steakhouse we are in the midwest. we have about 650 employees and we are high volume. when i m empowering and encouraging our managers after a