RFP Staff
♦ The Burger King inferno decimated one of the city’s leading restaurants as far as Salisbury’s tax base goes. B.K. also represents a major loss to the city’s mushrooming 27.2% poor who found Burger King burgs and coffee affordable and a major source of protein in the city’s rapidly spreading food desert. Don’t knock the King.
Salisbury, most noted for its poverty, violent crime and gang life, booming hard drug culture, and substandard D and F schools, needs every tax dollar it can snatch. The city can ill-afford the loss of a major fast food restaurant like the Burger King on Jake Alexander Blvd. and its hit to Salisbury’s shrinking tax base. Realize that one Burger King represents more to the city’s tax base than 10 of those surviving bric-a-brac and junktique shops on vacancy strewn Main Street. Burger King was a real contributor.
Hopefully Burger King doesn’t throw in the towel on Salisbury and leave like “5 Guys” and so many other businesses do.
