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The Big Easy’s ongoing crime wave has scared away regulars at a local pancake house as inflation eats into the decades-old restaurant’s profits. The one-two punch has left a co-owner worried that her business will collapse.<\/p>\n

“We’re having a really tough time right at this moment,” Betsy’s Pancake House co-owner Mary Murdock told Fox News. “It’s a day-by-day thing where you have to make this much money in order to pay them bills, and if you don’t make that then you are in trouble.”<\/p>\n

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New Orleans has grappled with a violent crime surge<\/a> since 2019, with carjackings and homicides more than doubling in the three-year period, according to the New Orleans City Council’s crime dashboard. Inflation has also been an ongoing problem for some business owners, with food prices increasing 11.3% compared to January last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We have lost a lot of regular customers,” Murdock said. “They won’t come into the city.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Murdock said customers from outside of the city wrote on Facebook that they stopped going to the restaurant because they were afraid of New Orleans’ crime. The restaurant co-owner attributed the violence to more anger and access to guns among the city’s youth<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When we were kids, if you had a fight with somebody \u2026 next day you were friends again,” Murdock said. “But it’s not like that anymore because now they bring guns.”<\/p>\n

And Murdock, a New Orleans native, is no stranger to violence. She took over the restaurant in 2008 after her mom, Elizabeth “Betsy” McDaniel, was beaten during a home burglary. McDaniel died from her injuries two days after the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“She was my best friend,” Murdock said as her eyes filled with tears. “She would want me to be here.”<\/p>\n

Murdock said people have suggested she move locations to avoid the city’s crime surge<\/a>, but she refused.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Here, you can feel my mom’s spirit,” Murdock said. “She wouldn’t be anywhere else.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Murdock has accommodated employee concerns\u00a0about the city’s crime surge<\/a>. Some of her staff worried about coming in early while it was still dark, so Murdock allowed them to work later shifts. Some employees come in as a group to avoid walking alone.<\/p>\n

“You gotta look out for each other,” Murdock said. She added that her employees overall felt safe in the neighborhood but remained vigilant.<\/p>\n

New Orleans briefly earned the title of the nation’s murder capital<\/a> in September after recording the most homicides per capita among major U.S. cities. Jackson, Mississippi, unseated The Big Easy, but it still recorded 266 homicides in 2022.<\/p>\n

In January, three people were shot and killed in Mid-City<\/a>, just blocks from Betsy’s. Some customers have asked about security on the premises, Murdock said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We couldn’t afford a security guard,” Murdock said. “We would have to increase the prices to do that.”<\/p>\n

BIDEN PAINTS ROSY PICTURE OF INFLATION BUT PRESSURE ON CUSTOMERS AND SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS PERSISTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“And when you increase the prices it makes it harder for people to come,” Murdock continued. She said the restaurant already raised prices due to high inflation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Overall inflation was up 6.4%<\/a>\u00a0year-over-year in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The price of eggs spiked 70% on an annual basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The price of eggs is outrageous,” Murdock said. “We’re having a really tough time.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

One New Orleans business owner told a local Fox affiliate<\/a> in October he didn’t want to live in the city anymore due to consistent burglaries and increased rent at his restaurant. But Murdock said she’s determined to keep Betsy’s afloat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We scrape to the bottom,” Murdock said. “Don’t waste nothing.”<\/p>\n

Murdock is considering opening the restaurant on Sundays and closing on Wednesdays to address profitability concerns<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You have to restructure,” Murdock said. “You have to think differently. Whatever it takes.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

To hear more from Murdock on her business’ struggles with crime and high prices, click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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