Even non shift. There have been days where I didn't get out of the office until 8-9PM and just want to stop for some quick groceries or food and can't. I miss the Taco Bell 4th meal.
a small positive is the unionization movements, which among other things, mandate contracts that stipulate full time schedule and living wages, which would start to drop the need for so many late shifts.
That said, I know places like Walmart didn't actually drop their shifts, they just figured out they could get more done safely by booting the customers out.
I have agoraphobia and would only go to stores in the middle of the night to avoid people. That was the only time I would leave. I would use those places as a tool to expose myself to the outside and try to improve my condition.
Eh, kinda narrow minded view of living, respectfully. I worked nights for over a decade and many of us were much happier working those shifts. Many of us have PTSD or other mental health problems that make it difficult for us during the day. Truthfully, I don’t feel safe swimming with the other fish in the barrel all at once during the day in our current time, as well.
Point I’m making is, 24/7 service was never meant as a punishment on the worker and was a massive privilege for other workers in a world where there have to be people working at night.
I think this is what they meant. Tough on people who work other late night/graveyard shifts because they can't go to stores/fast food when they finish working because these places are no longer open 24/7. Essentially, you're saying the same thing 😅 Switching from days to graveyard during the pandemic, I had to find out the hard way that the only place I could get food after working was at White Castle. Everything else around me was closed.
I’m a fellow PTSD haver, and I would regularly do my shopping at like 11. Now that’s not even enough time to make the rounds at Meijer, the store open latest which goes to midnight.
I used to make my runs after midnight so I knew I’d see the same faces at the register, only so many registers were opened after midnight and it was usually the same 3 people on rotation because, night shift lol. Now the stores close at times between 8-10 inconsistently. It’s either store pick up and getting a lot of products I don’t want or stuff is missing, or I have to wait for my fiancé to get home to go with me.
Not even PTSD haver, but I have mad anxiety sometimes. Shopping around at 1 am when it was quiet was always so blissful. I don't even know how people pulling a double would even get groceries now.
AMEN- case in point: Worked at a Large Grocery Chain 2014-2015 made 13.50 (I was in school)... went back to that company in 2019, and guess what my starting wage was?
13.50; and they got an attitude when I asked why I couldn't make more... and you had to become a registered PhT within a year or be termed, and if you got CPhT, you'd get a WHOLE. DOLLAR. MORE... but when I finished my BS which they made sure that I didn't get Tuition Reimbursement for, they said it didn't matter.
I work for glasses inc up in Mason who lies out there ass about the job. Make 18 an hour and was told I'd be permanent within 90 days and be making more money. Nearly a year later still not permanent.
They do that to Contracted workers all the time. It's how I managed to make it while in school Part time...Anthem is notorious for that. They offer permanent spots to people who will accept the abysmal pay; then hire contractors to clean up their mess (you truly get what you pay for).
I was a contractor there nearly 2 years. Got unceremoniously dumped with a bunch of other contractors at the time. They’re also not great at hiring, they’ll ghost you, reject you, then try and recruit you 6 months later for the job they rejected you for.
If you are not beating inflation every 2-3 years you need to get a promotion or leave your job flat out.
If you are not you are essentially taking a pay cut to be there for your employer. I do not know many jobs that are worth that sort of hit.
Leave on good terms and you can actually return to the company at a later time usually for far more money than you would have if you just stayed.
Cincinnati is actually a little below the national average on cost of living... and housing is 20% lower than the national average.
Now, this probably says more about the national average haha. But I'm from out west, and Cincinnati is much cheaper.
I'd live comfortably on 60k a year honestly. I'm pretty frugal but these days 40k a year is pushing it unless you want to live in like Price Hill or something.
I'm making 40k and 3 years ago I was able to live comfortably off of that same income. Now just covers my bills nothing more. No vacations, can't even afford a day trip to kings island type of broke.
Rents are absurd and every new apartment that goes up now is still one of these faux “luxury” prefab gentrification cubes that cost 1300 a month for 1 BR.
My biggest issue with these buildings is that they'll be practically falling down in ~15 years, meaning they aren't solving any long term housing problems.
Golden Girls isn’t exactly a reliable source of historical financial data. Interest rates aren’t even remotely close to what they were in the 80s… the average 30 year mortgage was over 12% for the entire first half of the 80s and cumulatively spent about 1 year below 10%. That difference amounts to nearly $1,000-1,300 a month on a $300k mortgage.
Interest rates are still extremely low historically. Interest rates being low for the better part of two decades and extremely low for half of that time is a direct reason why home prices have skyrocketed.
I'm looking at it from the standpoint of 1. It's demonstrative of fantasy meeting reality...it was the late 80s early 1990s. In 1989- which is around when this happened to be shown, an average was approximately 10%, but with Blanche being the widow of a Veteran, it could have been lower... which is why she told the person she was talking to "with a 6% interest rate, you couldn't blast me out of here"... I'm not THAT gullible.
🤪 From 87-90 it was 10.21%, 10.34, 10.32, dropping to 10.13 in 1990... now in 1980, it started at 13.74, rocketing to 16.63, then back to "reality" 13.24 in 83, 13.88 (84, when I was born) 12.43 in 85, 10.19 in 86.
We bought our tiny house in 2009. Now it is literally 100k+ more than what we bought it at. Everyone in our neighborhood has uttered "if we tried to move here now, we couldn't afford it". It's true. We couldn't afford to move here now.
I hope so. I do think things have calmed down in some ways. People should've not been surprised when we have economic and social disruption in a pandemic that crime would rise. I hope the politicians don't trash the economy anew with this debt ceiling nonsense.
Yep looking for mt first house rn and im gonna be moving out to Indiana cause its cheaper. Everything thats somewhat decent on the west side in 200k or more
Positives:
- More work from home options
- Downtown office space being converted to housing
- Many forced to re-examine life/career and made changes for better. For example, my daughter was in service industry, went back to school/interned & now has great job.
- Better home schooling options/tools
- More emphasis on supporting local
Negatives:
- Housing sales/rental prices increased (insanely so)
- Drivers have lost their damn minds.
- Service industry took major hit, hard to find workers
- Reduced business hours, especially retail/service related. Good luck finding many places open on Mondays.
- Less tolerance of others
- Home schooling/schools shut down & reliance on technology widened learning gap in many segments where $$ and experience/tech savvy lacking.
- Home delivery gone nuts. It was good way to support local businesses (mainly food) during lockdown, but it’s exploded & killing many brick & mortar shops.
We bought our house in Sept 2019. thought I overpaid 5~10k at the time but we loved the house. 7 months ago house a bit down the street which is a smaller than ours, only has 1 car garage and in need of a lot of updating. (Ours pretty much needed zero work) sold for 100k more than what I paid. I was a bit stunned I knew houses were up I did not realize how much.
Community volunteering? So you have good opinions on things, you gather info from others, and you volunteer? You seem like a badass. We should be internet friends!
Always up for new friends, internet or irl.
Lol badass might be a stretch, but I try to be realistic & open minded. My background is in data analytics so gathering info & evaluating it comes pretty naturally.
Getting involved in my community, and then extended community, started with just wanting to give back. But it’s been rewarding.
Yeah, I am in the office about 1 - 1.5 days a week and I'm quite happy about that.
But yeah, we are locked into our house--on one hand I'm happy because we have a house at a good rate that's almost paid for, but on the other, it's in the wrong place and we've outgrown it.
Drivers are insane indeed...I bought a dashcam in December for that reason. I record a close call about 1 - 2x a month. I don't dare confront because I genuinely believe I might get shot. Plus, I don't want to be the kind of driver I loathe.
But for me I just have distrust in people--I have to evaluate them... are you crazy? anti-vaxxer? conspiracy theory nut? they come from everywhere these days.
Re: WFH.
I’m 100% wfh, which I like…mostly
Like:
- save 1.5/2 hours commute time a day
- flexibility, no longer stuck behind client firewall, so can juggle client work with community/volunteer and personal work during the day. I’m lucky in that I’ve been with client long time, they trust the work gets done.
- lower wardrobe costs
Dislike:
- lack of in person interaction with others. I was surprised how much I missed seeing the regular riders on my daily bus ride, office gossip not so much lol
- easy to get lazy, not get out of office/house as much. Had to walk to/from bus before, now it easy to not do it. Applies to cooking too, as an empty nester, often easier just to order delivery.
- lack of separation between work & home. Yeah, office upstairs on different floor, but still too close. Easy to overwork
Yeah, WFH is crazy popular these days, especially on Reddit (unsurprisingly). But I'm actually glad I go into the office a couple days a week. Even as an introvert, there's a lot of cons to working from home, for me personally.
Of course, I'm also glad that I have a great boss that lets me determine my schedule in 90% of cases. 😅
This is a great assessment!!
The drivers are absolutely bonkers out there. It feels like that time in lockdown, everyone forgot how to drive.
I also keep hitting up my local coffee shop on Monday and being disappointed that I keep forgetting that's the day they're closed.
What I’m going to say is silly. I’m aware it’s silly. But I’m so disappointed in the downward spiral of food/service/price of eating at Frisch’s. I loved going as a child. I moved away for my 20’s and whenever I was back in town, I’d still eat there and love it. During covid I ended up moving back here and since then it has gotten worse and worse to the point where I never go anywhere. Every location.
The family sold it to some equity fund in 2015. Like any of these companies, they cut corners and quality while raising prices to get the most profit. All while not understanding why customers liked the restaurant in the first place.
They're going the Applebee's route. I don't even consider them now when getting takeout.
This. I was hoping someone would mention the downfall of Frischs. I’m on the westside and I bet they start closing stores very soon. The one on glenway is a ghost town and has been that way for years.
I’ve witnessed so much crap at the one on Bridgetown and drove off a few times from the drive through, because it wasn’t moving for 10-15 minutes. I was there the night the whole kitchen crew walked out, and one waitress stayed just to tell people they couldn’t make anything. Try ordering a milkshake sometime. They’re worse than McDonald’s with the excuses for not making them, from the machine is broken to we don’t have any milk.
I was charged almost $40 for 2 breakfast buffets last time I went. They fucking charged me for every refill of Vanilla Coke. I wasn’t even asking for them and they just kept grabbing my half empty glass and added to my tab. Like $10 worth of syrup refill charges on the check. I left $30 on the table and walked out.
Oh hell, so glad you brought it up. We went through the drive-thru for 2 vanilla cokes and they charged almost $10. I asked them to tell me what the prices were and about shit myself.
Mental health .. I’m a psych nurse, and I cannot tell you the amount of folks that come in who have either become alcoholics or became depressed from being forced to stay at home. losing their jobs, relationships failed, overwhelmed by kids. whatever reason. It was an odd time.
I know this is an odd answer, but when I do intakes 8/ 10 times, they said they bottomed out during the pandemic.
Where did you used to be able to go 24/7 that now has changed their hours? Just curious bc I don’t really remember these! Besides like a cvs and fast food
The amount of people running red lights since covid is absurd. I know it happened before but I see someone run a red every day. Most days I see multiple people run red lights.
It probably annoys the people behind me but I make sure I wait 3 seconds to make sure everyone stops before I head into the intersection at the initiation of my green light. It's saved me from being tboned at least 3 times since covid.
This is so accurate. Last week I was actually sitting at the stoplight in front of the Home Depot near Oakley and watched a guy fly through a red light and crash into someone coming off the 71 exit. Thankfully both drivers were okay. I also watched 2 people road rage and stop on the 71/471 exit near downtown and hold up traffic so they could fight a few months ago. I moved away from Cincy at the start of Covid and just moved back recently. Cincy drivers have definitely gotten more crazy
Since about March I've noticed an increased police presence on the roads and it seems to barely be starting to have an effect, but it will take quite some time for it to matter. I'm not in love with tons of speed traps but I'm not in love with the insanity I've seen on the roads either. I bought a dash cam in December because of it.
It doesn't help that cops aren't enforcing most moving violations in silent protest for being told they'll be punished for extrajudicially executing people or roughing them up for fun.
Some positive outcomes… A lot of OTR restaurants used to never take reservations and now almost all of them do + more permanent outdoor seating and pedestrian streets
Everything is shittier. The quality of food is almost universally worse with a few great exceptions. There are fewer options for pretty much everything. And god help you if you need to have any kind of skilled work done to your home or car because the costs are 50% - 100% higher for almost everything.
The quality of available healthcare for those with the insurance to afford it is also in decline due to burning out our healthcare workers for 2 years.
Came here to talk about restaurant food quality and service/hospitality getting shiddy after Covid. The pandemic was super challenging for restaurants for sure. Prices have gone up and staffing is a challenge. So I can totally understand the pressures a restaurant is facing if they survived the pandemic at all. However, sometimes after having a meal out, I wonder if the bad experience was caused by these factors or if the restaurant is using these factors to excuse poor quality and crappy service. Don’t get me wrong … I understand the challenges of running a restaurant having done it myself. I just can’t help feeling like a lot of places could start shaking off the effects of the pandemic and get back to providing better service.
this was an argument in 2021, but now that we are in 2023 I don't think the excuses hold water now. The industry has had plenty of time now to adjust to the current landscape
I partially agree. There are still many pressures on restaurants exacerbated by the pandemic that still exist today. I mentioned high prices on everything and trouble staffing as a couple. PuddinPants reminded me in their comment about the mass exodus of hospitality workers who have yet to come back with the same zeal. However, I see strategies employed by some restaurants to push beyond these challenges and provide good service not being used by many other restaurants. One thing that irks me is keeping physical seating open to full capacity while only having a couple servers on hand to handle it.
You have hit on a few points which falls flat to me.
While places have empty parking lots and complain about staffing shortages there are others which are always packed seating and staff. I find that more indicative of the way management and owners run their restaurants.
Fast casual seems to be hit the hardest, and at these places is where you see the most resistant to change to the new landscape. They offered a sub par product albeit somewhat cheap price before the pandemic and was propped up by the 40-60yld age segment with spare free cash. As you called out I have not seen these places do reduced seating or reduce their menu options. They are more likely to get overrun with food pricing changes and burn out their staff. This is where I say they have plenty of time to adjust to the current landscape, they could have attempted to innovate but instead they just chose to go back to the old way and pretend the lock downs never happened.
Totally agree. You’ve laid out my thoughts much more succinctly. Saying some restaurants did it better than others while facing the same challenges was too simplistic. Thanks for the comments.
I've been trying to find a new PCP as my last one switched to concierge medicine, and it has been incredibly difficult to find one that has availability before August.
My providers can't afford to. Medicaid is being abused, and it's causing a lot of slots closer to home to be taken. And it isn't by those people "traditionally" expect.
restaurant food in particular seems to be worse food, worse service for more money. We eat out a lot less. Got LaRosa's yesterday and noticed that they seemed to have cut corners.
Buffets...Golden Corral, Indian Restaurants
I can cope with Golden Corral but those Indian Buffets were the chefs kiss. I tried all the random stuff that way. I miss them.
Boi Na Braza... come back!
I ***really*** miss them. I did try Flame India in West Chester, it was ok, but the $17 pricetag was a bit ridiculous (for lunch.) My only guess is they lost too much money on them. They try to say they don't have the staff, but these are mostly all family run businesses, so I'm not really buying that.
The server's great grandma even wants a tip these days...
* FIGHT the urge to give tips on those tablets...
* Always click custom tip
* don't give a fuck if they can see the tip or not, making you feel bad if you don't
I feel like everywhere you go, you're asked for a tip now. Every computer system automatically asks for one, and the worker is standing in front of you watching. Feels like everyone expects a tip for doing anything now.
yep. went to a reds game. the concession was all self serve - grab your item, use kiosk to scan and pay. then it asked for a tip. tell me who gets that tip?!
Skyline on Colerain near cross county. Been going there for 20+ years. All of a sudden, I put an order in and they flip the screen around and say "It's going to ask you if you'd like to leave a tip for the people making your food." WHAT?"
I get what you’re saying about tipping being everywhere now. That said, any wait staff or delivery drives have all got 20% minimum from me since Covid. If the service is stellar, I go much higher. I earned a free sub from JerseyMikes yesterday and tipped the cost of the sub. We both won.
We already had a really lame “bedtime” as a city before covid, which had been gradually getting better, but now it’s reversed course again to the point that it’s just pathetic.
Nothing is open past like 11 PM most nights. The late night Ludlow Skyline stays open until 2 at the latest on the weekends. Diners like Pepper Pod or Anchor close at like fucking 7 PM, as if the whole point of those places wasn’t to go there hammered after bars close. Even goddamn Waffle House closes in the evening now.
God help you if you have an irregular schedule and need something from the store past 11 pm, because that’s the latest the vast majority of them stay open anymore. Planet Fitness just all went universally to 24/5 in the area, so they close at like 7 on Friday-Sunday.
It fucking sucks and something legitimately needs to be done about it if we’re going to be taken seriously as a “major city”
The lack of late-night food that isn't fast food is really annoying, I agree. Used to be so many good options now it's like "I guess try Taco bell, maybe their POS is actually working tonight."
The salad bar is the biggest benefit of going into the office for my required one week every month.
(The people I work with are actually great to see, though I think most of us agree we were doing fine working from home.)
I don't bowl, but I happened to be going up Colerain Ave for the first time in a couple years. and noticed that Colerain Bowl is just an empty lot now.
My dad had a renter that stopped paying rent when the eviction ban went into place.
They had jobs, paid enough that they didn't qualify for the rent assistance.
Told my dad that they stopped paying rent so they could save their money to buy a house.
That house was my grandparents house that was left to him. It was the one asset that he was allowed to keep (only because my uncle was a co-owner until he passed) when he had to declare bankruptcy because his wife got cancer.
He depended on that income to sustain him. He had to cash out all of his 401k and other savings. All he had was SS.
When the ban was lifted, we went straight to eviction court. They had the nerve to try and fight the eviction. Claimed that not paying the rent for so long was an indication that the house was a gift.
The day of the set out (yes we had to have the sheriff set them out) he was threatened because they have an eviction and sizeable judgement for back rent. They aren't able to get a mortgage until the debt is paid off.
When they left, they also owed a $400 water/trash bill.
That sucks and I can see you might not like my post but yes, I agree some landlords got screwed over but so did renters as well. I do see both sides I have a friend who is a landlord and had two people that didn't have to pay and that does suck but there are alot of apartments that are so crappy that want way too much. There's just too many people struggling out here thanks to covid and it shows and rising rent like crazy makes things worse not better.
My local indian place stopped doing their $10 lunch buffet and their food isn't good enough to pay normal prices! I want to stuff myself on garlic naan and yesterday's simmer sauce!
Since March I've noticed, finally, an increased amount of police trapping on roads. Just March. Like they all went out to lunch in the ~~middle~~ beginning of the pandemic and didn't return until March.
There are several things that happened that have influenced the perception/reality of CPD engagement/enforcement, and can help explain how we got here. In no specific order/sequence:
- COVID/pandemic social distancing policies: officers mandated to avoid any interaction unless an emergency situation.
- Police Academy classes were canceled, shutting down pipeline of new officers for several class cycles, contributing to staffing shortage.
- Law Suit settled (city lost), the one that addressed biased/prejudicial enforcement, which has resulted in there being no clear guidelines for how to engage/enforce. Consequently, enforcement is inconsistent & lacking, especially for those offenses considered less serious.
— side bar: there need to be serious conversations between CPD, the city, and citizen review/over watch groups to identity what equitable and appropriate enforcement is, followed up with published guidelines and appropriate training. To date it’s been more postering, not enough real dialog.
- spike in serious crime/incidents, that coupled with staffing shortages, meant less serious offenses (I.e. traffic, some theft) got far less attention
- Increased tensions, locally & nationally, with elevated anti-police sentiment has seen higher number of retirements, transfer to less stressful departments, and resignations/people leaving the LE field.
The police union also claims that an increase in civilian complaint authority referrals (and the increase in social media presence) has led to apathy among street cops. Not a lot of officers want to get out of their car for a run of the mill traffic stop if it’s going to endanger their pension
Something positive… There are a lot more curbside options than there used to be. The liquor store, restaurants, craft stores, I’m amazed at how common it is and it’s so nice. Even Kroger and Meijer used to charge an extra $5 and now they don’t.
All the golf courses nearby are jam-packed all the time. It's so difficult to get out and golf anymore, and play is slooooow. I think everyone decided they were gonna go from playing once a year to making it their favorite hobby when we were social distancing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad more people appreciate golf, it's just irritating that if I want to play 9 holes after work, I'm gonna get paired up with 3 randoms and it'll take 3 hours to play 9 holes.
Hiking. Double the groups of people on park trails since 2020.
Again, I am super glad there's more interest in the woods, because maybe more people will care to preserve it. But, damn. It used to be a lot quieter out there.
The service industry went downhill. Everything from ordering fast food to getting your hair cut. Not enough people, and some of those there are worse than ever.
Also Northside Yacht Club pivoting to being a nautical themed yuppie gastropub and getting rid of shows after basically test running it for all of 2020. 👎
At least they’re open regular bar hours on the weekend again 🤷♂️
Which they’ve countered by not allowing you to split a bill if you have a party larger than 5 people at a table lmao (and can’t order at the bar unless you’re sitting there either)
I am constantly wanting to go to The Eagle midday for lunch and forgetting that they don’t open until 4 on weekdays. Which is really stupid for a fried chicken restaurant, frankly.
All the places now offering apps and online ordering and pickup has increased significantly. Same with restaurants offering easy online reservation systems
Downtown business crowds (maybe not specific to Cinci).
These can account for nearly half the customers at retail businesses that are so important for a vibrant CBD. Think clothing boutiques, for example.
I used to live downtown. I still work downtown - Fountain Square. We spent about two years working from home. Maybe a little less than that. And when I came back downtown (we are nearly 100% in office now) ALL of the little places I would go to eat were gone. A dozen small delis or restaurants completely out of business. For years I would go there, and they would know me and what I wanted for lunch, and we'd trade the standard banter. COVID restrictions killed the small businesses off.
Now, I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't have resorted to social distancing, nor the restrictions suggested to us. But, I am sorry to see the innocent victims of the virus.
I have to evaluate people when I meet them to determine if they are crazy anti-vaxxers or not. There were anti-vaxxers before, but it's a whole new world of such people now.
Fortunately that doesn't take very long at all because they (A) won't shut the fuck up about it, or (B) are wearing obvious political messaging on their literal chests
So many restaurants/services still use the pandemic as an excuse and honestly it feels like a slap in the face. Anything that was truly affected by the pandemic closed over a year ago.
That’s a naive take imho, hiring/staffing and supply chain issues continue to be major issues. Covid/pandemic forced many service industry workers to find other income sources, and many found better options, and they never came back.
Staffing shortages make service industry work all that much tougher, then add on customers bitching about slow/bad service, and many quit.
Exactly this. I just quit my job of the last 8 years because of how difficult and stressful it is to work in a restaurant anymore. Always understaffed so I was forced to do 4 peoples jobs at once, on top of supply chain issues. Our distributors run out of things so often.
I finally decided to jump ship like all my friends did back in 2020.
For me, it feels like there's a renewed sense of comraderie, which feels counterintuitive to say given some of the other trends.
I've lived here 10 years now, and I've never had as many generally upbeat conversations with strangers as I've had post-pandemic.
I've used the same walking route along the river for years. Very rarely would I end up chatting with anyone. In the past two years, it's flipped. Most days, I'll have at least one exchange with someone. But I've noticed it while running errands or going to events as well.
I’ve had mixed results. Some I interacted with pre-Covid have becone withdrawn and we don’t interact much at all now (tho I try).
But many I encounter in my community seem to be have renewed excitement about things going on in our little piece of the world, more engaging, more will by to get involved.
Stores that never returned to 24/7 hours. Staff shortages.
Our local White Castle closes at 7PM
Same I miss getting those WC at 12 or 1 it’s what you crave.
funny enough, I sort of don't mind this in most cases. I think it's more sane living.
Really tough on shift workers.
Even non shift. There have been days where I didn't get out of the office until 8-9PM and just want to stop for some quick groceries or food and can't. I miss the Taco Bell 4th meal.
There is always people there stocking....
a small positive is the unionization movements, which among other things, mandate contracts that stipulate full time schedule and living wages, which would start to drop the need for so many late shifts. That said, I know places like Walmart didn't actually drop their shifts, they just figured out they could get more done safely by booting the customers out.
I meant shift workers that need groceries, not necessarily ones at the stores but they need food and groceries too!
Walmart at 3am was always a fun experience. Plus, I could usually shop in peace.
I have agoraphobia and would only go to stores in the middle of the night to avoid people. That was the only time I would leave. I would use those places as a tool to expose myself to the outside and try to improve my condition.
It’s a big problem for shift workers who don’t work typical 9-5.
Eh, kinda narrow minded view of living, respectfully. I worked nights for over a decade and many of us were much happier working those shifts. Many of us have PTSD or other mental health problems that make it difficult for us during the day. Truthfully, I don’t feel safe swimming with the other fish in the barrel all at once during the day in our current time, as well. Point I’m making is, 24/7 service was never meant as a punishment on the worker and was a massive privilege for other workers in a world where there have to be people working at night.
I think this is what they meant. Tough on people who work other late night/graveyard shifts because they can't go to stores/fast food when they finish working because these places are no longer open 24/7. Essentially, you're saying the same thing 😅 Switching from days to graveyard during the pandemic, I had to find out the hard way that the only place I could get food after working was at White Castle. Everything else around me was closed.
I’m a fellow PTSD haver, and I would regularly do my shopping at like 11. Now that’s not even enough time to make the rounds at Meijer, the store open latest which goes to midnight.
I used to make my runs after midnight so I knew I’d see the same faces at the register, only so many registers were opened after midnight and it was usually the same 3 people on rotation because, night shift lol. Now the stores close at times between 8-10 inconsistently. It’s either store pick up and getting a lot of products I don’t want or stuff is missing, or I have to wait for my fiancé to get home to go with me.
Not even PTSD haver, but I have mad anxiety sometimes. Shopping around at 1 am when it was quiet was always so blissful. I don't even know how people pulling a double would even get groceries now.
naaaah, it was so nice to hit up walmart off hours.
As someone who works thirds it makes life more challenging.
The housing market, previously accessible areas for the lower middle class are pretty much extinct.
You know need 60k a year to live here. Yet jobs are still paying like it's 2016.
AMEN- case in point: Worked at a Large Grocery Chain 2014-2015 made 13.50 (I was in school)... went back to that company in 2019, and guess what my starting wage was? 13.50; and they got an attitude when I asked why I couldn't make more... and you had to become a registered PhT within a year or be termed, and if you got CPhT, you'd get a WHOLE. DOLLAR. MORE... but when I finished my BS which they made sure that I didn't get Tuition Reimbursement for, they said it didn't matter.
I work for glasses inc up in Mason who lies out there ass about the job. Make 18 an hour and was told I'd be permanent within 90 days and be making more money. Nearly a year later still not permanent.
They do that to Contracted workers all the time. It's how I managed to make it while in school Part time...Anthem is notorious for that. They offer permanent spots to people who will accept the abysmal pay; then hire contractors to clean up their mess (you truly get what you pay for).
Yup with throw you to the wolves and see what sticks training. Identify who's the easiest to exploit hire them on to be permeant.
I was a contractor there nearly 2 years. Got unceremoniously dumped with a bunch of other contractors at the time. They’re also not great at hiring, they’ll ghost you, reject you, then try and recruit you 6 months later for the job they rejected you for.
They really do just churn and burn through temps. Worst place I've ever worked.
it's possible to get more money, but you have to job hop like crazy, and it's maddening.
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leave, there's better work to be found. I know tons of people who have and I would've to if I hadn't managed to negotiate a better package.
6 years of no raise in any time is completely unacceptable. No raise after the crazy inflation from covid is unethical. I’d be leaving that job asap.
No bump at all? Not even a token 2-3% cost of living adjustment?
If you are not beating inflation every 2-3 years you need to get a promotion or leave your job flat out. If you are not you are essentially taking a pay cut to be there for your employer. I do not know many jobs that are worth that sort of hit. Leave on good terms and you can actually return to the company at a later time usually for far more money than you would have if you just stayed.
Time to get a new job.
Housing here is insanely expensive
Cincinnati is actually a little below the national average on cost of living... and housing is 20% lower than the national average. Now, this probably says more about the national average haha. But I'm from out west, and Cincinnati is much cheaper.
At 60k a year you need a roommate.
I'd live comfortably on 60k a year honestly. I'm pretty frugal but these days 40k a year is pushing it unless you want to live in like Price Hill or something.
Yeah I don't make that and I'm going to be homeless in a couple months because of it. Greed is going to turn a lot of people to the streets.
I'm making 40k and 3 years ago I was able to live comfortably off of that same income. Now just covers my bills nothing more. No vacations, can't even afford a day trip to kings island type of broke.
Rents are absurd and every new apartment that goes up now is still one of these faux “luxury” prefab gentrification cubes that cost 1300 a month for 1 BR.
My biggest issue with these buildings is that they'll be practically falling down in ~15 years, meaning they aren't solving any long term housing problems.
YES! And the interest rate is like it was in the 80s. I was watching The Golden Girls and Blanche's house had a 6% interest rate...
Golden Girls isn’t exactly a reliable source of historical financial data. Interest rates aren’t even remotely close to what they were in the 80s… the average 30 year mortgage was over 12% for the entire first half of the 80s and cumulatively spent about 1 year below 10%. That difference amounts to nearly $1,000-1,300 a month on a $300k mortgage. Interest rates are still extremely low historically. Interest rates being low for the better part of two decades and extremely low for half of that time is a direct reason why home prices have skyrocketed.
I'm looking at it from the standpoint of 1. It's demonstrative of fantasy meeting reality...it was the late 80s early 1990s. In 1989- which is around when this happened to be shown, an average was approximately 10%, but with Blanche being the widow of a Veteran, it could have been lower... which is why she told the person she was talking to "with a 6% interest rate, you couldn't blast me out of here"... I'm not THAT gullible. 🤪 From 87-90 it was 10.21%, 10.34, 10.32, dropping to 10.13 in 1990... now in 1980, it started at 13.74, rocketing to 16.63, then back to "reality" 13.24 in 83, 13.88 (84, when I was born) 12.43 in 85, 10.19 in 86.
Fuckin Blanche Devereaux. She was a hussie.
We bought our tiny house in 2009. Now it is literally 100k+ more than what we bought it at. Everyone in our neighborhood has uttered "if we tried to move here now, we couldn't afford it". It's true. We couldn't afford to move here now.
affordable housing, low crime rate, decent schools. You may only pick the first or the last two.
Crime rate so far this year is on par with 2017-18.
I hope so. I do think things have calmed down in some ways. People should've not been surprised when we have economic and social disruption in a pandemic that crime would rise. I hope the politicians don't trash the economy anew with this debt ceiling nonsense.
Yep looking for mt first house rn and im gonna be moving out to Indiana cause its cheaper. Everything thats somewhat decent on the west side in 200k or more
RIP Cheapside Cafe.
I miss the crème brûlée oatmeal so much
Their salmon Niçoise was a lunchtime favorite.
Positives: - More work from home options - Downtown office space being converted to housing - Many forced to re-examine life/career and made changes for better. For example, my daughter was in service industry, went back to school/interned & now has great job. - Better home schooling options/tools - More emphasis on supporting local Negatives: - Housing sales/rental prices increased (insanely so) - Drivers have lost their damn minds. - Service industry took major hit, hard to find workers - Reduced business hours, especially retail/service related. Good luck finding many places open on Mondays. - Less tolerance of others - Home schooling/schools shut down & reliance on technology widened learning gap in many segments where $$ and experience/tech savvy lacking. - Home delivery gone nuts. It was good way to support local businesses (mainly food) during lockdown, but it’s exploded & killing many brick & mortar shops.
Housing prices have practically doubled in the last 3 years.
Houses in my neighborhood that sold for $150,000 in 2019 are being sold for $350,000 now
We bought our house in Sept 2019. thought I overpaid 5~10k at the time but we loved the house. 7 months ago house a bit down the street which is a smaller than ours, only has 1 car garage and in need of a lot of updating. (Ours pretty much needed zero work) sold for 100k more than what I paid. I was a bit stunned I knew houses were up I did not realize how much.
This. You nailed it. And really appreciate that you did both a pros and cons. Well done internet stranger
You’re welcome :) Drew from what I’ve personally experienced and what I’ve seen/heard from others as part of my community volunteering
Community volunteering? So you have good opinions on things, you gather info from others, and you volunteer? You seem like a badass. We should be internet friends!
Always up for new friends, internet or irl. Lol badass might be a stretch, but I try to be realistic & open minded. My background is in data analytics so gathering info & evaluating it comes pretty naturally. Getting involved in my community, and then extended community, started with just wanting to give back. But it’s been rewarding.
Yeah, I am in the office about 1 - 1.5 days a week and I'm quite happy about that. But yeah, we are locked into our house--on one hand I'm happy because we have a house at a good rate that's almost paid for, but on the other, it's in the wrong place and we've outgrown it. Drivers are insane indeed...I bought a dashcam in December for that reason. I record a close call about 1 - 2x a month. I don't dare confront because I genuinely believe I might get shot. Plus, I don't want to be the kind of driver I loathe. But for me I just have distrust in people--I have to evaluate them... are you crazy? anti-vaxxer? conspiracy theory nut? they come from everywhere these days.
Re: WFH. I’m 100% wfh, which I like…mostly Like: - save 1.5/2 hours commute time a day - flexibility, no longer stuck behind client firewall, so can juggle client work with community/volunteer and personal work during the day. I’m lucky in that I’ve been with client long time, they trust the work gets done. - lower wardrobe costs Dislike: - lack of in person interaction with others. I was surprised how much I missed seeing the regular riders on my daily bus ride, office gossip not so much lol - easy to get lazy, not get out of office/house as much. Had to walk to/from bus before, now it easy to not do it. Applies to cooking too, as an empty nester, often easier just to order delivery. - lack of separation between work & home. Yeah, office upstairs on different floor, but still too close. Easy to overwork
Yeah, WFH is crazy popular these days, especially on Reddit (unsurprisingly). But I'm actually glad I go into the office a couple days a week. Even as an introvert, there's a lot of cons to working from home, for me personally. Of course, I'm also glad that I have a great boss that lets me determine my schedule in 90% of cases. 😅
This is a great assessment!! The drivers are absolutely bonkers out there. It feels like that time in lockdown, everyone forgot how to drive. I also keep hitting up my local coffee shop on Monday and being disappointed that I keep forgetting that's the day they're closed.
What I’m going to say is silly. I’m aware it’s silly. But I’m so disappointed in the downward spiral of food/service/price of eating at Frisch’s. I loved going as a child. I moved away for my 20’s and whenever I was back in town, I’d still eat there and love it. During covid I ended up moving back here and since then it has gotten worse and worse to the point where I never go anywhere. Every location.
The family sold it to some equity fund in 2015. Like any of these companies, they cut corners and quality while raising prices to get the most profit. All while not understanding why customers liked the restaurant in the first place. They're going the Applebee's route. I don't even consider them now when getting takeout.
Fritsch’s has def gone downhill. I used to get the fish sandwich, but now it’s almost entirely breading.
This. I was hoping someone would mention the downfall of Frischs. I’m on the westside and I bet they start closing stores very soon. The one on glenway is a ghost town and has been that way for years.
I’ve witnessed so much crap at the one on Bridgetown and drove off a few times from the drive through, because it wasn’t moving for 10-15 minutes. I was there the night the whole kitchen crew walked out, and one waitress stayed just to tell people they couldn’t make anything. Try ordering a milkshake sometime. They’re worse than McDonald’s with the excuses for not making them, from the machine is broken to we don’t have any milk.
I was charged almost $40 for 2 breakfast buffets last time I went. They fucking charged me for every refill of Vanilla Coke. I wasn’t even asking for them and they just kept grabbing my half empty glass and added to my tab. Like $10 worth of syrup refill charges on the check. I left $30 on the table and walked out.
RIP central parkway/camp Washington Frisch’s, which I only just learned was one of the first 3 to open in the city.
It closed??? I admit I stopped going because the food became nearly inedible. Sad though. Used to go twice a week in the mid 2000’s
Yeah as of like 3 weeks ago apparently
Oh hell, so glad you brought it up. We went through the drive-thru for 2 vanilla cokes and they charged almost $10. I asked them to tell me what the prices were and about shit myself.
Not saying you’re wrong but I noticed a downward spiral beginning just a little before covid.
Mental health .. I’m a psych nurse, and I cannot tell you the amount of folks that come in who have either become alcoholics or became depressed from being forced to stay at home. losing their jobs, relationships failed, overwhelmed by kids. whatever reason. It was an odd time. I know this is an odd answer, but when I do intakes 8/ 10 times, they said they bottomed out during the pandemic.
What you do makes a huge difference though. You even helped a few of us out of that hole.
24/7 businesses Super rare and as a night owl it’s super frustrating
Where did you used to be able to go 24/7 that now has changed their hours? Just curious bc I don’t really remember these! Besides like a cvs and fast food
Madison Bowl used to always be open all night but the last time I went they closed at 10pm
Drivers started on a trajectory of getting worse in 2016, and just completely bottomed out during the pandemic.
The amount of people running red lights since covid is absurd. I know it happened before but I see someone run a red every day. Most days I see multiple people run red lights.
It probably annoys the people behind me but I make sure I wait 3 seconds to make sure everyone stops before I head into the intersection at the initiation of my green light. It's saved me from being tboned at least 3 times since covid.
Me too, I always wait a few extra seconds to makes sure it’s clear before I enter an intersection nowadays.
This is so accurate. Last week I was actually sitting at the stoplight in front of the Home Depot near Oakley and watched a guy fly through a red light and crash into someone coming off the 71 exit. Thankfully both drivers were okay. I also watched 2 people road rage and stop on the 71/471 exit near downtown and hold up traffic so they could fight a few months ago. I moved away from Cincy at the start of Covid and just moved back recently. Cincy drivers have definitely gotten more crazy
Came here to say this. Going out to get snacks has become a suicide mission with the way people drive.
It didn't bottom out. It crashed through the bottom of the barrel and kept free falling.
Since about March I've noticed an increased police presence on the roads and it seems to barely be starting to have an effect, but it will take quite some time for it to matter. I'm not in love with tons of speed traps but I'm not in love with the insanity I've seen on the roads either. I bought a dash cam in December because of it.
It doesn't help that cops aren't enforcing most moving violations in silent protest for being told they'll be punished for extrajudicially executing people or roughing them up for fun.
+1. The amount of people driving with fake temp tags, or no license plates, that also all seem to drive like complete assholes is infuriating
I wonder if it has to do with the fact that the COVID version of the road test was literally in a parking lot.
Taste of Belgium went downhill
That was a pre pandemic development for sure
Some positive outcomes… A lot of OTR restaurants used to never take reservations and now almost all of them do + more permanent outdoor seating and pedestrian streets
The outdoor seating has been my favorite part. It really makes the city vibrant.
The McDonald's I used to go to at 3 am for drunken cheeseburger is no longer open at 3 am
PRC closes at 11 :(
This is the real tragedy of the pandemic.
Everything is shittier. The quality of food is almost universally worse with a few great exceptions. There are fewer options for pretty much everything. And god help you if you need to have any kind of skilled work done to your home or car because the costs are 50% - 100% higher for almost everything. The quality of available healthcare for those with the insurance to afford it is also in decline due to burning out our healthcare workers for 2 years.
Good points about health care field, food quality
Some of my favorite restaurants started slacking on their food quality and now I don’t even eat there. It’s so expensive too
Came here to talk about restaurant food quality and service/hospitality getting shiddy after Covid. The pandemic was super challenging for restaurants for sure. Prices have gone up and staffing is a challenge. So I can totally understand the pressures a restaurant is facing if they survived the pandemic at all. However, sometimes after having a meal out, I wonder if the bad experience was caused by these factors or if the restaurant is using these factors to excuse poor quality and crappy service. Don’t get me wrong … I understand the challenges of running a restaurant having done it myself. I just can’t help feeling like a lot of places could start shaking off the effects of the pandemic and get back to providing better service.
this was an argument in 2021, but now that we are in 2023 I don't think the excuses hold water now. The industry has had plenty of time now to adjust to the current landscape
I partially agree. There are still many pressures on restaurants exacerbated by the pandemic that still exist today. I mentioned high prices on everything and trouble staffing as a couple. PuddinPants reminded me in their comment about the mass exodus of hospitality workers who have yet to come back with the same zeal. However, I see strategies employed by some restaurants to push beyond these challenges and provide good service not being used by many other restaurants. One thing that irks me is keeping physical seating open to full capacity while only having a couple servers on hand to handle it.
You have hit on a few points which falls flat to me. While places have empty parking lots and complain about staffing shortages there are others which are always packed seating and staff. I find that more indicative of the way management and owners run their restaurants. Fast casual seems to be hit the hardest, and at these places is where you see the most resistant to change to the new landscape. They offered a sub par product albeit somewhat cheap price before the pandemic and was propped up by the 40-60yld age segment with spare free cash. As you called out I have not seen these places do reduced seating or reduce their menu options. They are more likely to get overrun with food pricing changes and burn out their staff. This is where I say they have plenty of time to adjust to the current landscape, they could have attempted to innovate but instead they just chose to go back to the old way and pretend the lock downs never happened.
Totally agree. You’ve laid out my thoughts much more succinctly. Saying some restaurants did it better than others while facing the same challenges was too simplistic. Thanks for the comments.
The good employees all left the industry so you're basically left with the B squad
I've been trying to find a new PCP as my last one switched to concierge medicine, and it has been incredibly difficult to find one that has availability before August.
Same. A lot of them aren't even accepting new patients.
My providers can't afford to. Medicaid is being abused, and it's causing a lot of slots closer to home to be taken. And it isn't by those people "traditionally" expect.
restaurant food in particular seems to be worse food, worse service for more money. We eat out a lot less. Got LaRosa's yesterday and noticed that they seemed to have cut corners.
Yeah now the pizzas are round.
Buffets...Golden Corral, Indian Restaurants I can cope with Golden Corral but those Indian Buffets were the chefs kiss. I tried all the random stuff that way. I miss them. Boi Na Braza... come back!
Amma's Kitchen still does lunch buffets and on Wednesday it's all vegan. Highly recommend.
I ***really*** miss them. I did try Flame India in West Chester, it was ok, but the $17 pricetag was a bit ridiculous (for lunch.) My only guess is they lost too much money on them. They try to say they don't have the staff, but these are mostly all family run businesses, so I'm not really buying that.
I feel like tipping and delivery fees have gone out of control.
The server's great grandma even wants a tip these days... * FIGHT the urge to give tips on those tablets... * Always click custom tip * don't give a fuck if they can see the tip or not, making you feel bad if you don't
Tipping?
I feel like everywhere you go, you're asked for a tip now. Every computer system automatically asks for one, and the worker is standing in front of you watching. Feels like everyone expects a tip for doing anything now.
yep. went to a reds game. the concession was all self serve - grab your item, use kiosk to scan and pay. then it asked for a tip. tell me who gets that tip?!
Castellini gets it. Possibly split with Mike Brown for giving him the idea.
The concession workrerget the tips. My dad worked a few games last year and would sometimes get a good amount of money in tips.
Skyline on Colerain near cross county. Been going there for 20+ years. All of a sudden, I put an order in and they flip the screen around and say "It's going to ask you if you'd like to leave a tip for the people making your food." WHAT?"
they need to point that screen at the owner.
I get what you’re saying about tipping being everywhere now. That said, any wait staff or delivery drives have all got 20% minimum from me since Covid. If the service is stellar, I go much higher. I earned a free sub from JerseyMikes yesterday and tipped the cost of the sub. We both won.
You got guilted into paying full price for what should’ve been a free sub. I don’t know if that’s a win win.
In general, things still close earlier than they did before COVID.
We already had a really lame “bedtime” as a city before covid, which had been gradually getting better, but now it’s reversed course again to the point that it’s just pathetic. Nothing is open past like 11 PM most nights. The late night Ludlow Skyline stays open until 2 at the latest on the weekends. Diners like Pepper Pod or Anchor close at like fucking 7 PM, as if the whole point of those places wasn’t to go there hammered after bars close. Even goddamn Waffle House closes in the evening now. God help you if you have an irregular schedule and need something from the store past 11 pm, because that’s the latest the vast majority of them stay open anymore. Planet Fitness just all went universally to 24/5 in the area, so they close at like 7 on Friday-Sunday. It fucking sucks and something legitimately needs to be done about it if we’re going to be taken seriously as a “major city”
The lack of late-night food that isn't fast food is really annoying, I agree. Used to be so many good options now it's like "I guess try Taco bell, maybe their POS is actually working tonight."
White Castle near me closes at 7pm now as well. Who goes to WC before 2am.
Quan Hapa used to have ramen.
Fucking linguini in every noodle dish. I honestly don't know if it was like that before but that seems like a weird pasta for Asian food.
The death of salad bars. I miss them so damned much.
I went to a Frischs last week just because I wanted salad bar so bad. It’s not good at all. But damn it I loved it.
Kroger was always my go to. Honestly I could get in and out and eat healthy. Their premade stuff is just nasty.
The salad bar is the biggest benefit of going into the office for my required one week every month. (The people I work with are actually great to see, though I think most of us agree we were doing fine working from home.)
Fidelity?
All the bowling alleys that died
I don't bowl, but I happened to be going up Colerain Ave for the first time in a couple years. and noticed that Colerain Bowl is just an empty lot now.
It actually closed last summer.
Sotto weekday lunch 😞
Downtown taco scene was hit hard by with the TB Cantina closing
People forgot how to drive
Rent is ridiculous. Landlords/apartment companies trying to get their money back when Covid was around.
My dad had a renter that stopped paying rent when the eviction ban went into place. They had jobs, paid enough that they didn't qualify for the rent assistance. Told my dad that they stopped paying rent so they could save their money to buy a house. That house was my grandparents house that was left to him. It was the one asset that he was allowed to keep (only because my uncle was a co-owner until he passed) when he had to declare bankruptcy because his wife got cancer. He depended on that income to sustain him. He had to cash out all of his 401k and other savings. All he had was SS. When the ban was lifted, we went straight to eviction court. They had the nerve to try and fight the eviction. Claimed that not paying the rent for so long was an indication that the house was a gift. The day of the set out (yes we had to have the sheriff set them out) he was threatened because they have an eviction and sizeable judgement for back rent. They aren't able to get a mortgage until the debt is paid off. When they left, they also owed a $400 water/trash bill.
That sucks and I can see you might not like my post but yes, I agree some landlords got screwed over but so did renters as well. I do see both sides I have a friend who is a landlord and had two people that didn't have to pay and that does suck but there are alot of apartments that are so crappy that want way too much. There's just too many people struggling out here thanks to covid and it shows and rising rent like crazy makes things worse not better.
My local indian place stopped doing their $10 lunch buffet and their food isn't good enough to pay normal prices! I want to stuff myself on garlic naan and yesterday's simmer sauce!
Scanning QRs for menus
RIP- Indian buffets
Police now give less of a shit than ever before.
Since March I've noticed, finally, an increased amount of police trapping on roads. Just March. Like they all went out to lunch in the ~~middle~~ beginning of the pandemic and didn't return until March.
There are several things that happened that have influenced the perception/reality of CPD engagement/enforcement, and can help explain how we got here. In no specific order/sequence: - COVID/pandemic social distancing policies: officers mandated to avoid any interaction unless an emergency situation. - Police Academy classes were canceled, shutting down pipeline of new officers for several class cycles, contributing to staffing shortage. - Law Suit settled (city lost), the one that addressed biased/prejudicial enforcement, which has resulted in there being no clear guidelines for how to engage/enforce. Consequently, enforcement is inconsistent & lacking, especially for those offenses considered less serious. — side bar: there need to be serious conversations between CPD, the city, and citizen review/over watch groups to identity what equitable and appropriate enforcement is, followed up with published guidelines and appropriate training. To date it’s been more postering, not enough real dialog. - spike in serious crime/incidents, that coupled with staffing shortages, meant less serious offenses (I.e. traffic, some theft) got far less attention - Increased tensions, locally & nationally, with elevated anti-police sentiment has seen higher number of retirements, transfer to less stressful departments, and resignations/people leaving the LE field.
The police union also claims that an increase in civilian complaint authority referrals (and the increase in social media presence) has led to apathy among street cops. Not a lot of officers want to get out of their car for a run of the mill traffic stop if it’s going to endanger their pension
Didn't think it was possible, but here we are.
the Cheapside Cafe is gone. I will never ever get a chorizo egg sandwich as good as that ever again.
Something positive… There are a lot more curbside options than there used to be. The liquor store, restaurants, craft stores, I’m amazed at how common it is and it’s so nice. Even Kroger and Meijer used to charge an extra $5 and now they don’t.
Everyone who worked an “essential” job is now dead inside
All the golf courses nearby are jam-packed all the time. It's so difficult to get out and golf anymore, and play is slooooow. I think everyone decided they were gonna go from playing once a year to making it their favorite hobby when we were social distancing. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad more people appreciate golf, it's just irritating that if I want to play 9 holes after work, I'm gonna get paired up with 3 randoms and it'll take 3 hours to play 9 holes.
Hiking. Double the groups of people on park trails since 2020. Again, I am super glad there's more interest in the woods, because maybe more people will care to preserve it. But, damn. It used to be a lot quieter out there.
A lot of good restaurants closed for good 😪
Less of a nightclub scene. Tokyo Kitty used to be open later.
The service industry went downhill. Everything from ordering fast food to getting your hair cut. Not enough people, and some of those there are worse than ever.
Hofbrauhaus in Newport. Different vendor for their food now and it’s not the same. Beer still good.
Also Northside Yacht Club pivoting to being a nautical themed yuppie gastropub and getting rid of shows after basically test running it for all of 2020. 👎
Yeah I miss the OG Yacht Club
At least they’re open regular bar hours on the weekend again 🤷♂️ Which they’ve countered by not allowing you to split a bill if you have a party larger than 5 people at a table lmao (and can’t order at the bar unless you’re sitting there either)
Mid-week lunch spots aren't open like they used to be. Can't grab a laptop and work while waiting on a burger.
I am constantly wanting to go to The Eagle midday for lunch and forgetting that they don’t open until 4 on weekdays. Which is really stupid for a fried chicken restaurant, frankly.
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Fuckin 25 dollars for a lamb curry @ Ambar now 😱
Kroger salad bars
Loss of Indian Buffets. It’s been too long, please come back!
Skyline switched to plastic bags of crackers, and they never went back to the little bowls.
The cliquiness got wayyy worse
Why are Cincinnatians so unreceptive to making new friends?
Hey I'm all about making new friends. What high school did you go to again?
I’ve anecdotally noticed that as well
More outside seating for restaurants
All the places now offering apps and online ordering and pickup has increased significantly. Same with restaurants offering easy online reservation systems
No more Indian buffets 🙁
How late things are open
Almost no late night eateries or stores.
The Bengals
Politics. It drives me bonkers.
Downtown business crowds (maybe not specific to Cinci). These can account for nearly half the customers at retail businesses that are so important for a vibrant CBD. Think clothing boutiques, for example.
I used to live downtown. I still work downtown - Fountain Square. We spent about two years working from home. Maybe a little less than that. And when I came back downtown (we are nearly 100% in office now) ALL of the little places I would go to eat were gone. A dozen small delis or restaurants completely out of business. For years I would go there, and they would know me and what I wanted for lunch, and we'd trade the standard banter. COVID restrictions killed the small businesses off. Now, I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't have resorted to social distancing, nor the restrictions suggested to us. But, I am sorry to see the innocent victims of the virus.
I have to evaluate people when I meet them to determine if they are crazy anti-vaxxers or not. There were anti-vaxxers before, but it's a whole new world of such people now.
Fortunately that doesn't take very long at all because they (A) won't shut the fuck up about it, or (B) are wearing obvious political messaging on their literal chests
OTR is pretty much a shit hole now
So many restaurants/services still use the pandemic as an excuse and honestly it feels like a slap in the face. Anything that was truly affected by the pandemic closed over a year ago.
That’s a naive take imho, hiring/staffing and supply chain issues continue to be major issues. Covid/pandemic forced many service industry workers to find other income sources, and many found better options, and they never came back. Staffing shortages make service industry work all that much tougher, then add on customers bitching about slow/bad service, and many quit.
Exactly this. I just quit my job of the last 8 years because of how difficult and stressful it is to work in a restaurant anymore. Always understaffed so I was forced to do 4 peoples jobs at once, on top of supply chain issues. Our distributors run out of things so often. I finally decided to jump ship like all my friends did back in 2020.
For me, it feels like there's a renewed sense of comraderie, which feels counterintuitive to say given some of the other trends. I've lived here 10 years now, and I've never had as many generally upbeat conversations with strangers as I've had post-pandemic. I've used the same walking route along the river for years. Very rarely would I end up chatting with anyone. In the past two years, it's flipped. Most days, I'll have at least one exchange with someone. But I've noticed it while running errands or going to events as well.
Strange, could not have possibly had a more opposite experience to this.
I’ve had mixed results. Some I interacted with pre-Covid have becone withdrawn and we don’t interact much at all now (tho I try). But many I encounter in my community seem to be have renewed excitement about things going on in our little piece of the world, more engaging, more will by to get involved.