8 million restaurant workers unemployed due to government-imposed shutdowns
The beatings will continue until morale improves: Eight million restaurant workers out of work due to due to Wuhan panic and government-imposed shut downs.
In addition, the restaurant industry is predicting $240 billion (with a “b”) in losses by the end of the year. Moreover,
…roughly 3% of the restaurants in the US — or 30,000 restaurants — have already shuttered. In the early April survey, an additional 5% of operators said they anticipated closing in the next 30 days, meaning that more than 50,000 restaurants could shut down permanently.
In early April, UBS said that up to one in five restaurants in the US could close due to the coronavirus pandemic. Experts say that independent restaurants are particularly at risk, with many small businesses struggling to access PPP loans.
In my own neighborhood, I have already seen one restaurant go out of business, and another apparently destroyed just as it was about to open. Through the winter a new Indian restaurant was being built nearby, with signs saying it would soon open. Unfortunately the house arrest imposed by our fearless leader Governor Doug Ducey prevented them from opening as planned. Though the restaurant had signs up offering take-out this week, when Diane tried to pick up a menu so we could give them some business. the place was shut. I suspect they are out of business, a dream destroyed before it could even be born.
But hey, we can’t risk having anyone die from COVID-19, no matter how many other lives we destroy.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves: Eight million restaurant workers out of work due to due to Wuhan panic and government-imposed shut downs.
In addition, the restaurant industry is predicting $240 billion (with a “b”) in losses by the end of the year. Moreover,
…roughly 3% of the restaurants in the US — or 30,000 restaurants — have already shuttered. In the early April survey, an additional 5% of operators said they anticipated closing in the next 30 days, meaning that more than 50,000 restaurants could shut down permanently.
In early April, UBS said that up to one in five restaurants in the US could close due to the coronavirus pandemic. Experts say that independent restaurants are particularly at risk, with many small businesses struggling to access PPP loans.
In my own neighborhood, I have already seen one restaurant go out of business, and another apparently destroyed just as it was about to open. Through the winter a new Indian restaurant was being built nearby, with signs saying it would soon open. Unfortunately the house arrest imposed by our fearless leader Governor Doug Ducey prevented them from opening as planned. Though the restaurant had signs up offering take-out this week, when Diane tried to pick up a menu so we could give them some business. the place was shut. I suspect they are out of business, a dream destroyed before it could even be born.
But hey, we can’t risk having anyone die from COVID-19, no matter how many other lives we destroy.
Are you enraged yet?
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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I’m sick of eating at home. I miss everything about eating at restaurants. After this is all over I feel like the choice, and variety of restaurants will be limited because so many will be closed down, so sad.
Coronavirus: World risks ‘biblical’ famines due to pandemic – UN
* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52373888
My predictions:
1. By the time this is over, more people will have died due to the effects of trying to avoid the disease than would have died if the disease had been allowed to run its course.
2. Wars will break out of the consequences of our reaction to this disease.
John C
Completely agree! I miss the Thai restaurant down the street. Seems to have completely boarded up. Not even take out. Hope they come out the other side intact but I have my doubts…
Nearly all the restaurants in my county (a rural one with a only a handful of reported cases and no deaths) are open for take-away — except Chinese restaurants. All four of them (two in the closest town, one each in two nearby towns) are closed, despite two of the four being take-away-only during normal times and the other two having proper dining areas but still doing a majority of business via take-away and delivery. Strange.