The Governor That Cried Wolf

Mike Caccioppoli
5 min readJan 28, 2021

If you owned a restaurant in California and were told you could once again open for outdoor seating would you even bother at this point? After spending thousands of dollars on setting up for al fresco dining after being shut down indoors could you afford to continuously open and close? To spend money you already don’t have?

I have lost count of the number of times Gavin Newsom has told California restaurants they…

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