Think a restaurant owner in trendy Royal Oak might be immune to automotive anxiety?
Think again.
Tim Castaneda feels it on two fronts. His business, a hip and fairly inexpensive Mexican eatery called Zumba, is losing customers. At home, Castaneda`s wife, an engineer at Chrysler LLC for 18 years, carries constant fear of job loss.
"I talk to 100 people a day," he said this week, as his roster of customers getting laid off from auto jobs seems to grow ever longer. "It has really, really affected me in the last two to three months," he said. "People really close to me have started getting laid off."
If the auto industry collapses, he doesn`t know how he`ll survive, said Castaneda, 44, of Troy, who has two children, one in college.
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