Restaurant Row Over Power Outages
The heat wave caused power failures for many eateries on Smith Street from Sunday night through most of Tuesday, according to The Daily News, and restaurant owners are demanding that Con Ed pay them back for lost business and wares. Here’s what some of the owners have to say: -“They suck!” said Carroll Gardens Classic…
The heat wave caused power failures for many eateries on Smith Street from Sunday night through most of Tuesday, according to The Daily News, and restaurant owners are demanding that Con Ed pay them back for lost business and wares. Here’s what some of the owners have to say:
-“They suck!” said Carroll Gardens Classic Diner owner Spero Katehis, who claims he lost $12,000 in wasted food and lost business. “They should’ve fixed the problem last year. I believe they’re patching things up. And when you patch up it’s going to break again. It’s 2008, this is New York City, we should have cables that don’t break.”
-“How are they going to give us this service when we pay them $3,600 a month in electricity?” said Taeseok Lee, a manager of Smith’s Grocery. “Everybody was p—-d off.”
-“It’s hard to listen to their BS lies every year,” said Boerum Hill Food Company employee Peter Morgano. “The bill keeps going up, but service keeps going down. You would think that after their debacle last year in Queens they would learn their lesson.”
A Con Ed spokesperson said the utility has paid out $48,000 in claims to business owners in the community so far.
Restaurants Are Fed Up With Power Outages, Want Refunds From Con Ed [NY Daily News]
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Power Outages, Tornados, Wind Storms. We’ve all seen the after-effects, entire communities without power. I’ve read that on average 3.5 million people lose their power in the US each week! We lost power and the big box store was out of generators. Luckily we found a generator on the internet at mainpowerconnect.com We should now have the power needed when faced with these unexpected outages. The generator will keep the lights on, food cold and our air conditioning working. Hopefully the generator will also keep our sump pump working to protect the basement from flooding.
Based on past history, Con Ed will almost certainly stiff these guys. They should complain to the Mayor Bloomberg, a professional kissy-face apologist for Con Ed. Not that that will do any good. Not only is Con Ed a quasi-public utility, but they have no competition or effective oversight (Public Utilities Control Board is a virtual rubber stamp). It’s the worse possible scenario for ordinary NYers. I guess the Mayor is tied up with more important stuff, like trying to force people to stop smoking cigarettes.
That crab shack doesn’t even have A/C.
While I agree that Con Ed is horrible (I think this is what you get when you have a quasi-public utility, that puts profits over service), these restaurants can’t expect to get paid by Con-Ed.
The restaurants, if they want to get paid, should have gotten business interruption or lost income insurance, which is relatively small. That would have protected them.
When Con-Ed pays out, its really you and I paying out.
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CON-ED is a joke. They need to update their cables get it sone already.
Not that I know all the details, but I remember seeing on the news how they had to turn off power in the area in order to fix the problems. I’ll be that before they did so, they didn’t give a courtesy call to the residents and businesses about this happening. As a result, they should either pay back to the businesses who were affected, or at the very least credit their bills.