Lockout in NBA hurting businesses – Labour Dispute Update
The lockout in National Basketball Association (NBA) not only hurting the players, arena workers and fans, it is also affecting local businesses. Among those, one city that is feeling the most pinch is Cleveland, where many local
businesses, restaurants and several fast food chains have started to suffer the severe financial impact.
Harry Buffalo is one of the most popular restaurants near the Cleveland Cavaliers’ home court, Quick Loans arena, and used to make full financial advantage from October to April during an NBA season, but due to lockout in NBA,
its business is falling-down excessively.
Harry Buffalo’s operations manager John Adams has spoke to the media and explained in detail about the current terrible financial condition of the restaurant that is also effecting directly on many employees.
Adams said, “It's rough; I've got three single moms on my wait staff and two single dads in the kitchen. I've got their 11 children to think about. It's painful when it's out of my control, when I have to put the business first
and say I can't have 15 servers on staff because we don't have the business.”
The lockout in NBA has now entered in its fourth straight month with no guarantee as how long this work stoppage will prevail in the league. The preseason has already been cancelled by the NBA authorities and now it is quite visible
to everyone that the worst might come in few weeks when the whole season will be wiped out.
No NBA season means, more misery for local businesses across many cities of Untied States of America. Cleveland is not the only example of worst hit cities of lockout, but there are still plenty of other cities, which are also
feeling this heat.
The Salt Lake City, where the Utah Jazz plays its home game is another example of lockout hit cities. Last month, some news papers have published some stories about Salt Lake Cities and speculated how this city will suffer from
the ongoing work stoppage in the league. According to those reports, the City will suffer some heavy financial losses if the lockout continued.
Scott Beck, the president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Visit Salt Lake programme, while giving an interview, cast some light on the aftershocks of the lockout;
“It’s a big industry. Sports are a lot of fun, but professional sports are really a big economic engine. And it's certainly not lost on us that every time the NBA comes here to broadcast a game, they show our beautiful mountains,
they show the destination, and that's a real extension of our brand.”
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