An interesting societal note:

[PCIntern]

Today, I had two major errands in Center City Philadelphia. The first of which took place 9 o’clock the second of which is going to take place at 1 PM. For a variety of reasons I don’t feel like visiting my office, so I decided I would go somewhere for a leisurely breakfast, coffee, and would tip the waiter handsomely for allowing me to sit at the table for a couple hours.

There is Absolutely nowhere to go in Center city for a sit down breakfast as I have described during the week. The hotels for the most part are only serving breakfast on the weekends and none of the restaurants that were formally open which serve breakfast exist any longer. I walked around for more than an hour, stuck my head into at least 20 places and was informed by individuals or posted signs that this establishment is no longer performing this service.

I will tell you that at one time you only had to walk at most 3/4 of a block to get what I was looking for and now…? I thought I would just mention this as a point of observation. My, has the world changed….

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I doubt it will stay this way for long. We are a sociable species...

after all.

Dining together has been central to our species and war, plague, or other disaster hasn't stopped it for long.

[Delmette2.0]

2. If you ever take a vacation, visit my small city.

And the Early Bird Café. Open from 7am until 2pm.
The have great breakfasts, and cheese burgers for lunch. Well they probably have more for lunch but I love their burgers so I don't look any further.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. No Panera or Starbucks either?

Gee even in my little corner of the woods we’ve got those and you can sit there as long as you like. Also I can think of a couple local family owned places that don’t mind if you sit a while for breakfast. Maybe just in large urban areas this is the norm?

[ShazamIam]

4. Thanks for that, we are having to rely on each other for the reality checks of pandemic life.