Owner of the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory tells reporters that people are afraid to visit Chinatown because of the corona virus. He calls it racism, adding that his business is off $500-$800 dollars a day.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/nancy-pelosi-visits-san-franciscos-chinatown/2240247/
No one was being racist.
We recognized there may be a problem and quit going to restaurants in general during that same period.
Hell, I had Pho Noodle at my favorite place the same week.
Yes, it’s Vietnamese food but, I also ate at Panda Express the same week.
Now, many people saw the writing on the wall and I wasn’t where they were in the view of what was coming but, if I recall there was talk of quarantine, shelter in place or terms like that around that time and those same people just plain quit going to restaurants.
I ate at Pacific Fresh in Palo Alto that same week and had no problem getting a table that I should have been told, on a typical weekend, would be a 30 minute wait.
there are probably 20-30 tables in that place and only 5 were taken.
That just never happens.
I’d search the news to prove the point but, I don’t want to belabor the point, which is probably provable by someone else with a bit more time.
Everyone’s business is off because we’re on lockdown.
Golden Gate’s generosity is commendable. That said, I would be pretty creeped out working in a hospital and seeing bags of fortune cookies. I’ve never liked fortune cookies. Maybe that’s why it would give me the creeps. Ummm, that’s it.
Got a fortune cookie the other day:
THAT was not chicken!