Yes, cancelling my membership certainly crossed my mind, as I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago. That said, I think we will have much more clarity on where things stand a month from now, at which time I can cancel if the park reopening looks like it will be in the fall or 2021.
I'll try to find the article on twitter to back this up, but looking at a pure ports perspective, MLB/NFL/NHL/NBA are all doing models for if attendance in venue were to drop by 30-70% and how that would affect profits. Basically major sports are bracing for the fact that when they return the combination of restrictions, people who don't feel comfortable being out, and people still sick from this is going to have a major impact on the ability to fill stadiums.
If that's true for sporting events, I wonder the impact on a seasonal park like BGW. Like if football comes back but says no fans because it isn't safe, first off why are players playing, but second why should a place like BGW be open (especially since football doesn't start until September).
I feel like parks in general (not just BGW) should start talking to creditors, vendors, and employees about payments and everything as if they won't open, and let it be a surprise if they do. They need to be active about "we got nothing coming in so we can't send anything out". In the end this might end up in a great sell off of parks by some companies, a great swing in closure of parks by some companies, or some other company springing on the opportunity to purchase a value depressed asset.
As for the small business grants (sorry, I know unrelated to your post); I would be interested more in how that goes. Like my company, our major share holder is a Japanese company who employs about 1500 people. But we're still considered our own company despite this, and you take out franchised locations, you end up with 498 corporate employees. Just under the number needed. So what SEAS
needs to do is see if each park can apply on their own (as if they operate as separate entities with one financial shareholder. It does feel like each park has it's own level of autonomy); if they need to include part time seasonal employees (because if they don't that's a huge part of the work force); and what the loan/grant needs to be size wise then. Contracted employees don't count because they are not considered a park employee rather an employee of the business they work for (ex - When Panda Express was still in KD, KD could claim they were PE employees contracted to work in KD). I think if they can get past the first hurdle, of can each park treat itself as it's own business, they
might be able to get unexpected help. But don't quote me on that.
