The gap between reopening and Wednesday's change in rules was spent by restaurant managers and owners adapting to a partial business, that is if they could even afford to reopen or find the staff to do so. Wednesday's rule changes now sends restaurant workers back to the street because their workplaces are now overstaffed. Or they get sent back to the streets because the restaurant cannot afford to operate at 25% of capacity.
Another twist to all this is that a lot of people in the restaurant business, the ones that wanted to work, went looking for new jobs because it is just a real pain in the ass to work short staffed. There has been a consolidation of employees to the best restaurants. What if they got a new job and were to start that job after Wednesday? They quit their previous job and now are left hanging. My daughter, who is a restaurant GM is in exactly this situation. Fortunately, her new job is secure. At least for now, because where she is going is already so short staffed business that they are still clamoring for bodies. Hopefully her job will continue to be available.
That situation is not the same everywhere. Overhead in the restaurant biz is big. This is going to push a lot of owners into bankruptcy. They haven't had cash flow because of the original shutdown, and an even further degraded occupancy puts them deeper in the red.
Politicians don't know jack schiff about running a small business. And even if they did have experience with a business, they certainly didn't have experience in everyone else's business. So that leaves them utter clueless about the demands they are placing on businesses.
This is why I was stark raving mad yesterday. I swear that I will screw every Rat that I have a chance to. Paybacks are going to be a world of hurt.
Remember the Chrysler bailout?
As part of that all Chrysler dealerships owned by republicans r=were shut down.
Democrats are trying to starve large Trump and/or republican donors.