Posted on 03/23/2020 1:05:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Less than a week after being ordered to close all dining room service and focus solely on takeout, eateries are pulling the plug on that business, too. Takeout and delivery orders in the face of crescendoing coronavirus contamination fears just aren’t pulling in enough dough to keep the lights on. Plus, it’s not safe, restaurateurs say.
Cristina Castaneda on Saturday shuttered her last two remaining restaurants, including Mexican restaurant El Mitote and Mediterranean eatery Ella Social, after deciding she couldn’t continue to sell food without endangering her and her staff’s health.
“I worked there all day and just couldn’t find a safe way to continue operating,” she said late Saturday night. “We are going home.”
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This is beyond distressing for small businesses BUT what the hell do the Libs care they have never done ANYTHING but collect checks from Uncle Sam!!!
Not surprised at all.
How is Hizzoner going to keep his people fed?
on Staten Island, very places have closed.
Seamless listed dozens of restaurants as delivering today.
those that close are higher end and were ALWAYS doing mostly walk in. in a lot of cases only walk in
no one’s ordering a 150 dollar meal to eat in their living room.
some Asian restaurants have closed here
It’s terrible to say but I don’t know or care what happens in the other four boroughs.
Once I stopped working in Manhattan, they all seemed a million miles away
Hey we got 600 cases out of half a million people.
That’s a lot higher than the country average.
I better lock the front door
THIS....will lead to riots.
sure constrict the food supply even more on top of doubling down on ensuring small businesses will be destroyed. That will help things.
How ignorant are you? NYC full of the massively liberal but incredibly productive.
These nations are doing the best and they are not cratering their economy by telling everyone they must stay at home for weeks and weeks
S Korea
Taiwan
Japan
Singapore
Germany is doing well and I think the Scandinavians too.
How long will it be before cannibalism begins? (ref. Donner party) People gotta eat!
I am not talking about the businesses and workers I am talking about the damn legislators ruling over them!!!
Ah, in some cases different, yes.
Not just NYC.
But nobody in the enemedia gives a damn about Upstate.
“I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America” -Hillary Clinton
“How is Hizzoner going to keep his people fed?”
Deliveries...
I think one factor is that people are ordering food only. Restaurants make much of their profit from soda and alcohol.
They simply cannot break even on food only.
So many small businesses are going to be crushed beyond saving by this.
crescendoing
Is that even a word? If it is it hardly applies here. Wuhan flu is just getting ramped up in NYC, not even close to a “crescendo” . Jennifer should “learn to code” .
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