From:
david.j.worrell@gmail.com
It's worth noting that Trump's restaurants aren't doing so hot.
Most of his hotels aren't doing so great either.
http://tinyurl.com/ybd2cazh
Quotes:
Trump’s business is private, meaning financial data is hidden. But average room rates have plummeted in every Trump U.S. hotel, according to a November 2017 study, indicating a fall in customer demand. The hardest hit was Trump International Hotel Las
Vegas, where the average rate fell by 63 percent from January 2017 to January 2018.
When Koi, a Japanese/sushi restaurant in the Trump SoHo in New York City, closed in June 2017, it also blamed a decline in business following the election. A representative told Money at the time that the drop in business, along with “a whole host of
reasons,” was the cause for the closure; an employee who worked at the restaurant drew a stronger line toward the Trump name, telling Grub Street, “Before Trump won, we were doing great. There were a lot of people we had, our regulars, who’d go to
the hotel but are not affiliated with Trump. And they were saying if he wins, we are not coming here anymore.” (The Trump Organization eventually parted ways with the Trump SoHo. It’s now rebranded as the Dominick Hotel.)
“It can be generally quite risky to associate one’s brand too closely with political issues,” says Aaron Allen, a global restaurant consultant. “Generally, what we’re hearing [in news reports] is that most of the properties are down, with the
exception of Mar-a-Lago.”
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My favorite:
"...every Trump property — from Honolulu to Miami to New York —
is in a Democratic-leaning city that favored presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election."
Uh oh.
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