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fijimermaidsg t1_iw3ysip wrote

Reply to Why can’t any restaurants survive here by aphid123

Ebiken.

I was just noticing how many new places have been opening up post-pandemic... And Ebiken, they grown so much since their first place near Fells Point. I remember rushing there because there wasn't much Asian food places back then and now we have NiHao, Charming Elephant, Mona's Supernoodle...

Edit: And The Tilted Row, which opened right at the start of the pandemic - they survived too! They used to give out free food to the community,

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aphid123 OP t1_iw3yllu wrote

Reply to comment by DfcukinLite in Why can’t any restaurants survive here by aphid123

The point is that it doesn’t seem like there are many super popular places to begin with. But like bond street social seemed popular, and it’s closed now. And small businesses that are successful elsewhere fail here—ie the H&M at the inner harbor.

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Expendable_Red_Shirt t1_iw3xu30 wrote

Reply to Why can’t any restaurants survive here by aphid123

In the pandemic in Hampden I feel like I saw a lot of stores close down and restaurants open up in their place. It seemed like nobody was going out for things they could buy online but food wasn't that, so restaurants spouted up. Now things might be oversaturated?

Restaurant fail rates are also super high in general.

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No-Lunch4249 t1_iw3efd6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What is the best company for single person internet and phone in Hampden? by hotdoggingjukes

Fairly certain that the cable TV franchising agreement is also non exclusive, but they do have the effect of dampening competition because the government (in this case Baltimore City) is basically saying “this is our preferred provider.”

IIRC Verizon and the city couldn’t come to a deal on a franchise agreement that would have coexisted with Comcast’s, and that’s why FiOS in Baltimore died

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