Some Memphis businesses report the Memphis Safe Task Force is keeping customers away, including the presence of the Tennessee National Guard. Guard members patrol a relatively emplty Beale Street on Nov. 21, a Friday night (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
MEMPHIS — Saturday lunch is usually peak busy at La Guadalupana restaurant, one of the city’s oldest sit-down Mexican taquerias along a busy commercial strip in the city’s diverse Berclair neighborhood.
But on one recent Saturday, owner Juan Castelan gestured in the direction of mostly empty tables…