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For the past 6 months every restaurant owner in San Diego with an outdoor patio knew this day was coming July 13th the day to seal the deal on the outdoor space or not here in Little Italy it looks like most of these patios will be
Around for a while so we got approved by the city to go ahead and have a permit to have outdoor dining and we are looking into uh doing some construction on the patio making it a little bit nicer a little bit fresher while other parts of town are slowly dismantling
Their outdoor patios Little Italy appears to be all in the rooftops have all been taken down the umbrellas have all gone up and Little Italy is living up to its name however the price of doing business with the city is more than a lot of people can handle right
Now the real issue that we have right now are the fees because a lot of people have to pay upfront and it could be 20,000$ 30,000 $335,000 we’re saying if if it’s a 2-year deal why don’t you let them pay no interest every month so they make
Money from the expansion and they can pay it clearly the outdoor dining experience has been a lifesaver for hundreds of restaurants here in San Diego but the economic impact of the lockdowns is clearly still taking its toll a lot of people are still recovering from covid you know they
Might have issues with their landlords that they still have to deal with back rents still very difficult to deal find employees so people are trying to come back I think we’ve come back pretty well but they still need as much help as possible at least through the end of
2022 for a lot of restaurant owners navigating this permit process is so complicated they have hired a specialist to do it for them another expense but with places like Los Angeles now calling for another mask mandate believe it or not keeping these patios going is important in many ways you know we have
The new variant that’s out there right the ba 5 ba25 whatever it’s called you know all the more reason why we should be doing as much Outdoors year round as possible in San Diego we can do that here as painful as it may be to deal with the red tape and the new
Regulations in this area it is paying off with big crowds and Good Vibes today we are celebrating Father John 25th anniversary of being a priest and we walked from our lady the rosary to here but he’s at St Charles but uh we said let’s go d out in the patio and we love
It out here