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Several top-level commenters are questioning why the restaurant owners would be upset about this. Some reasons are listed in the Verge article:

1. It's causing unneeded additional stress to the business owners

2. It causes harm to their reputation

3. It was done without their consent

4. It's being done on a mass basis for [Yelp/GoFundMe's] benefit

5. The process to opt-out is arduous

It doesn't seem like a ridiculous request that you get the owner's consent before you involve them in some kind of business arrangement.



Beyond that, some people have been able to restructure their food business around take-out and are doing fine, don't need any kind of bail out and it looks absolutely shitty for them.

I know there's that whole "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission", but seriously, there are limits to it.




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