Last week, Big Mario's Pizza owner David Meinert wrote an op/ed for the Puget Sound Business Journal  about why he supports Occupy Seattle's encampment at Seattle Central Community College. Meinert has been sending pizza to feed the Occupy protesters.

Today, another Capitol Hill business owner, Darrell Jamieson of the Broadway Management Group, which runs the Broadway Performance Hall, responds.

It's harsh:

I believe that what I am seeing here is actually the OTHER one percent, the one at the other end of the curve.

Our bathrooms are locked because I got tired of providing janitorial services to the world after Occupy Seattle came here. We spent hours cleaning up after the first night when, after hours, some protesters decided to pee on the building. Any owner of a food-based business should be interested in this: garbage and sanitation services in this encampment are blurred together with food handling. Multiple food-borne illness and communicable disease risks have been reported by Public Health/Seattle King County inspectors in on-site inspections.

Operators of public events, like myself, have asked the Fire Marshal’s Office to provide us with some written guidelines regarding combustible materials (tents) placed over straw with multiple uncontrolled ignition sources, no fire extinguishers and no clear emergency egress.

My hope is that eventually health and safety issues will overcome the political abandonment of local business entities by city government.

In the meantime, the next time someone decides to send over a few boxes of what will eventually become cholesterol-laden rat food, why not send over an employee who will teach basic food-handling and sanitation skills? Better yet, send over the key to your establishment’s bathroom and take some of the load off of us.

You know, we didn't wait for the endorsement of Occupy Seattle or Bank Transfer Day to change bank accounts. We moved ours when Bank of America told us they were discontinuing lines of credit for businesses like ours. Our business practices are driven by business, not by feel-good-ness. And our change-the-world strategy is centered around the ballot box, not the pizza box.