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river and fort. it s in beautiful st. augustine. jeff, you re the owner. you look very happy with yourself. you ve been only for just over six months. how is business? business is incredible. we re so fortunate to be in the state of florida, be led byron desantis. he kept us open when we needed to be. a great staff a great location here. we re just extremely fortunate with how things have turned out. you obviously talk to other people in the business. could you do this in california? i wouldn t. i certainly wouldn t. why? certainly the state tax is extremely high. really hard to get help. i feel like here we have a great quality of life. the quality of people that we re able to a tract here to work here has just been incredible for us. we re so lucky. i have the best staff in the world. two great chefs. have you had trouble finding workers? coming out of covid it was
economy was. powering back after delta held it back to something like 2.3% in the third quarter. for the full year, 5.7%, you guys, this is something, i mean you haven t seen since 1984. that is a strong, strong performance for the full year, no question there. when you look within these numbers, it is just about every single category of the economy was powering ahead, powering ahead in the year. this is why the fed has said it is time to go ahead and start raising interest rates. it is against the backdrop of a strong job market and strong economy overall. we saw jobless claims fall again, that s another decent number, showing you that bosses don t want to be laying people off in this environment. they re having trouble finding workers, they re having trouble meeting the demand for their products and their services and so they re not laying people off in this economy. this is why the fed is confident enough to start raising interest rates multiple times this year to draw down its very