[Alberta's Child]

Many NYC restaurants have a much bigger problem than Cuomo’s shutdowns. As a number of their owners have pointed out in recent months, they’d be in desperate financial straits even if they were allowed to open indoors to 100% of their capacity.

With so many NYC employers keeping their workers at home and so many wealthy New Yorkers fleeing the city permanently, the NYC restaurant industry simply doesn’t have enough customers anymore.

[SJackson]

You’re right. If covid disappears completely in six months, it won’t be 2019 again. Consumption patterns have changed, living patterns have changed, people are fleeing cities, business’ that can have embraced remote working. I don’t see how many small business’ which have incurred not only loss of revenue, but debt in the form of rent/mortgage arrearage, will easily recover. And those that do it will be at the cost of several years of their personal and business lives.