Though restaurants adjust staffing to expected business, they cannot sustainably staff for a night with 12 customers. They said if business does not improve in the coming weeks, the industry is facing an extinction event in the Twin Cities. Local restaurant boycotts in fact drain local coffers of sales taxes, and the state of payroll taxes, but likely won’t register on Donald Trump’s radar. “Heavily stressed restaurants can’t be forced to shutter for a day every weekend,” said one local restaurateur. “These are small businesses who have been the hardest hit by this crisis,” Zimmern says.