Now the restaurants are starting to close...

Only the dining rooms. People can still do drive-thru, curbside delivery, and home delivery.

 

I'll keep an eye out for it next time I run up there. There's a small chain around here named Santinis that does a killah parm sandwiches and their Italian subs are pretty damn okay. We usually get it after one of my kid's practices.

 

Sucks for them all the way around. They're also the least likely to financially afford treatment for being infected.

 

No kidding. Corp still gets revenue though. Jeez.

 

Lots of sectors in the economy are going to hurt for a while. I am sure I am leaving some out, but here is a start:
Everything entertainment (except what is consumed inside the house), sports venues (even the non-entertainment ones), fitness centers, conferences, all travel, restaurants, beauty shops, spas, nail salons, barbers, real estate agents, transit workers (DC Metro has cut back to weekend hours), home improvement, anyone that comes into your home to do work (plumber, electrician, house cleaners, etc.), valet parking attendants, parking garages & lots, service stations, gas stations, car dealers, retail stores for anything except food and cleaning supplies.

A local gas station here is even doing full service fueling to try to get / keep customers. No extra cost.

Entertainment includes everything from top artists and sports figures to the ticket takers and bathroom cleaners. Same with travel, everything from the Airlines CEOs to the bathroom cleaners, cruise ship staff and the guy selling flowers at the airport.

So do the cooks, the person taking the orders, the folks doing Uber Eats delivery, and maybe the fuel station that provides the Uber Eats driver's fuel. Maybe the restaurant stays in business so the servers have a job to come back to in a couple months. Better than nothing and way better than having the disease spread faster than the medical system can deal with like in Italy. I heard our respirators per capita is lower than Italy's.

 

And with the belt tightening that is sure to come from all those previously mentioned sectors suffering reduced business/revenue, most people will be reintroduced to the joys of cooking.

Invest in Julia Childs reprints!

 

The people making the food in those restaurants are probably among the members of society
who are most likely to catch and spread the virus so I don't see how it makes sense to home
deliver the virus or hand it out at the drive-thru window. I was a restaurant manager, I know
what that demographic is like. Basic human hygiene is something many of them are not in the habit of.

 

I worked for several years as a manager at Denny's and Wendy's in MA and NH.

I'm talking about people who wouldn't wash their hands after taking a shit, not people
who skipped deodorant. I couldn't convince half the cooks that they couldn't dice up
raw chicken and then cut a sandwich with the same knife, even if they did wipe the blade
on that towel they'd been wiping their hands and everything else with for the last three hours.
I once had to stop a dishwasher from drying dishes with the same handi wipes he had just used
to tidy up the urinals in the men's room. I had another dishwasher in a different store who I had
to remind to use soap and scrub his hands rather than the rinse under hot water he was giving them
after he had just used his bare hands to empty a toilet of shit (after some drunk ripped it out of the
floor and then people kept using it), he was headed right back to handle people's dishes and silverware.
And I would keep bagging the same people over and over, they would rather get spoken to on a
regular basis rather than wash their damn hands. It was a constant problem I had to deal with.

 

Mentioned in the other thread, but there are some plans being proposed, by people with influence and ability to resolve some of those issues.

 

3rd world folk?

 

Yecccch!

 

I feel so bad for small town single mom working as a waitress. They are screwed.

 

Could’ve used the hundreds of millions in wasted campaign funds to do good for a LOT of people in this country.

 

Minnesota shutting down all restaurants tomorrow.

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