And what's this????? The Cheesecake Factory announced this week that it has received a $200 million investment from Roark Capital. This comes just a few weeks after the chain informed its landlords it would be unable to pay its rent for April.
How about flipping the question around. Are the landlords so broke that they can't survive without one month of rent? And what does it say about a landlord who demands full payment knowing damn well the foot traffic in the tenant's store is non-existent because of factors outside anyone's control?
That’s why the 2008 Investment Bank bailout was so insidious. A corrupt industry got bailed out of their own gambling losses because they knew they had both political parties bought and paid for. And now, when government edicts shuts down most of the economy, and therefore the government does have an obligation to help - the big corporations get helped and the small businesses are left to die. Harvard, sitting on billions of endowment dollars, originally said it was going to keep $9M in bailout funds because “they needed it” - but got shamed into rejecting it because Stanford and Princeton rejected it.
Way back when? The way I remember is that buyback has always been seen by the public as a sign of good faith, ie. the company believes in its future growth. Anyway, I get your point. Lately, these idiotic companies bought their own stocks at taxpayers' expense thanks to no other than the Helicopter Fed.
The landlord has obligations just as the tenant does as well. I'm shocked that some here Believe its okay for these billion dollar corporations to skimp on paying their rent.... probably most here are for student loan forgiveness as well!!!!!!
That's a very clear example. The landlord did NOT close it to foot traffic. The government did. So the landlord cannot be blamed for that. He made an agreement with a renter to put a space at the disposition for the renter. The landlord did what he was obliged to do by contract. If one of the two parties that signed the contract does not meet his obligations, he is guilty. So not paying the rent is against the signed agreement.