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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
This is interesting. The claims about the restaurant rez data had seemed dubious because people just aren't that politics-brained, except it was DC where they sort of are.
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Ryan Bourne
@MrRBourne
This @nytimes article still claims (incorrectly) that restaurant reservations were down 24 percent in DC in a restaurant week to restaurant week comparison: nytimes.com/2025/08/23/din OpenTable says they have told NYT this is untrue. And they confirmed it to me by email.
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David Watson 🥑
Cook11X1P
@jcooks
As someone that has lived here for 8 years and worked in the restaurant business here for 15, I can tell you that things definitely aren't as busy as usual. Furthermore, not every place in DC uses OpenTable. There's resy and toast as well. Get a complete data set.
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Dark Elation
@realDarkElation
Nothing interesting about obvious lies from the media. I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t call it what it is. You’re supposed to be a data guy, data guys let the numbers do the talking.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen
@IaqDiesel
I don't know that it's politics brained to see military presence on the street and consciously or subconsciously err more toward staying in than you might have normally?
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CollinsAR
@collins1225
Yeah, D.C. folks definitely have a different perspective on everything. Makes sense they'd care about that stuff there.
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JeanDiana
@jeanfantastico
Yeah, makes sense. DC folks definitely have politics on their minds more than most. Guess that’s why the data shifts so much there.
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End the Simpsons
@EndTheSimpsons
I don't have the slightest doubt that Peter Baker knew it was false at the time he wrote this:
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Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
With troops sent by Trump into the streets of Washington, reservations to restaurants for this year’s Restaurant Week are 24% lower than those during Restaurant Week 2024. There was also a 7% drop from the week before troops arrived, Korsha Wilson reports. nytimes.com/2025/08/23/din
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White House Xray
@xray_media
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The numbers lie twice: first when media misreads them, then when the admin weaponizes the confusion. DC's real restaurant slump isn't in spreadsheets—it's in the empty chairs where federal overreach dines out. While OpenTable corrected NYT's 24% error, the admin's Aug 11 troop
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Jackson Russello
@JackRussello
Nate, the left will lie about everything to try and get Trump. Don’t be surprised when the Washington Post does not retract their inaccurate story. Their motto? “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story to blame Trump”.
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Sam A
@holidazzle88
You don’t have to be politics brained to not want to dine out while theres a large presence of armed soldiers standing around.
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AhDonnelly
@AhDonnelly
So, the claim made by the New York Times is untrue and simply used for political purposes. That seems like a day that ends in “y” for the nation’s paper of record.
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Troy D 2nd®
@TroyD_II
And you believe this person has a direct email address to somebody at Opentable? The columnist who also thinks the media is fake news?
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Russ Wenkell
@RWenkell
Then bigger story is The Times not correcting it and proving, once again, that they're extremely biased and don't care about truth. Seems newsy and another reason why you'd have to be an idiot to trust the mainstream media in 2025.
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