Can anyone explain how you are supposed to pick up food (or have it delivered) while still maintaining the 6-foot distance from other individuals?
The state of the restaurant industry
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Re: The state of the restaurant industry
#332That's about to completely crater. My city issued guidance just yesterday (3/16) that all dining room service is to stop. Drive through, delivery, and curbside only.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shutdown all Restaurants, Bars and Movie Theaters yesterday afternoon. Only takeout is allowed.
Same in Michigan.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to believe this is true, but I once was at my boss's house and saw inside his fridge. All it has was a few beers. I asked him where his food was and he said he ate out for every meal. He was a single guy in a 5000 square foot home on an acre of land. I suppose he could afford to buy every meal out. I kind of doubt he will magically start using his kitchen.
It's a spectrum. We normally eat out a lot and usually had a reasonably full fridge but ever since this all started I made sure our pantry and fridge were full, and we've been cooking at home ever since.
Have you thought about keeping your pantry full as a reserve and still eating out / getting delivery a lot? It’s what I’ve been doing since I want my favorite restaurants to still be around when this is all over.
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#334Can anyone explain how you are supposed to pick up food (or have it delivered) while still maintaining the 6-foot distance from other individuals?
Leave it on a table?
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#335These will be the lingering repurcussions from this crisis. Restaurants might bounce back but the people working in those places will have a tough time.
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#336I'm always a little surprised that so many people never picked up the ability to even do basic cooking. Of course, as recently as Sunday people like Nunes were telling people it was important to support their local businesses by eating out as if it were their patriotic duty. It might be different now that even Fox and Trump are saying the same thing as the CDC finally. Maybe not if people literally cannot feed themse…
> I'm always a little surprised that so many people never picked up the ability to even do basic cooking. I'm not, unfortunately. For years now, cooking has been marketed as a waste of time and effort like hand-washing clothes (think fast food advertising). Just like anything else, cooking takes time, patience and structure to learn, which many people don't ever have naturally. I was lucky to grow up in a household t…
Cooking also requires proper cooking facilities and access to ingredients. There are a lot of people in living situations that don't involve a kitchen, and many who don't have decent grocery stores nearby but they do have restaurants.
Still, you're right that many people have access to all those things and choose not to cook for whatever reason.
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#337Can anyone explain how you are supposed to pick up food (or have it delivered) while still maintaining the 6-foot distance from other individuals?
Leave it on a table?
Many restaurants are advertising curbside service. I assume this means they bring it to your car. I'm just trying to understand how this all works.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
What research papers have you seen with more optimistic projections? You're calling the projections that two governments are relying on as ill informed based on what credentials?
We don’t have enough data or understanding to project anything. Many countries stupidly aren’t doing pervasive testing. Places that do have pervasive testing (some town in Italy, South Korea, and Singapore) suggest this virus is widespread and has a >1% death rate. But this data is early and subject to change. Suggesting we are going to be locked for months or years is irresponsible fear mongering at best.
I never said "years", 2021 is in less than a year. I think you're contrarian, misinformed and in deep denial. Anyway, facts are what they are and we'll see in due time.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats more remarkable is that no one has made a peep about RENTAL PAYMENT DEFERRALS or SUSPENSIONS to even COMMERCIAL LANDLORDS of APARTMENTS / SINGLE FAMILY HOMES yet somehow sit-down restaurants and their health are a top concern. These priorities are lop-sided at best. Restaurants are not a critical component of your basic sustenance. They never were, in the course of human history. Heavy dependence on them for on…
Probably because the buildings aren't going anywhere. Landlords will lose money, but they're less likely to lay off tons of people. Restaurants employ ~10% of working Americans. A lot of people are going to lose jobs.
Restaurants employ ~10% of working Americans. A lot of
people are going to lose jobs.
But meanwhile what happens to the other 90% Americans who are working who face uncertain futures - some even in underrepresented sectors or even non-union sectors? How do they make rent or their mortgage payments?
All I'm asking is why are restaurant workers deserving of such singular attention and their concerns need such elevation over the rest of the entire working classes of America including other blue & white collar workers?
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#340Looking at this data, prior to asking people to isolate, I wonder if the day to day variation is based on a weekly pattern - people culturally may eat out more on weekends or weekdays, so the same calendar day may not be directly comparable to the one in the previous year.