Posted on 07/27/2020 9:23:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
My favorite local restaurant struggled with curbside pickup.
They closed permanently a week ago. Now I have nowhere else to go for bison pot roast and a good dirty martini.
Thank you, Gov Pontius Polis.
Whoever wins the 2020 election will be dealing with a national disaster.
There were some people getting ready to open a bbq joint not far from me right before this virus. Spent months working on the place.
Not is this case. This is the part no one is thinking about. We will not have new businesses spring up unless we pass a Constitutional Amendment that prevents any office holder be them Governor, Mayor, President or judge from ever having the power to force closures or quarantines again no matter what the circumstances. We cannot have emergency powers of any kind, period. Forced closures, stay at home orders and quarantines must be made permanently illegal.
Without this protection you will have virtually no new startup businesses. No one with the capital to start a business will do so knowing a local judge or mayor could force them to close their doors and they would lose their life savings. I have said before and it's true. The new business model for people with capital is going to be DON"T GO INTO BUSINESS.
We have actually patronized more restaurants since the lockdown than before. Mainly we have done it to support local eateries. I find this amusing.
So where will the customers eat then? Are they all cooking for themselves?
20 percent, give or take, in an ordinary year. A doubling or tripling is quite reasonable under the circumstances.
This is a very good analogy of my point.
We must have a Constitutional amendment making all of these emergency powers, quarantines, and closures illegal under any condition. Without this protection like you said the fire will sterilize the soil and nothing of any consequence or desirability will ever grow again.
You are right, of course.
What age group do you think this will hurt? Probably the young people.
I've seen grocery stores in wealthy neighborhoods that have great food bars. They offer just about any menu items that a restaurant does. Take it home, nuke it for a couple of minutes and you have a restaurant dinner without the big markup and tip.
Most badly hit in New York City. They should be in great shape to recover because they were hit hard early. But with Andrew Cuomo’s decrees, they’re not going to recover.
The restaurant model will have to adapt. More takeout and delivery less indoor dining.
One of our younger relatives (50 something) was a chef for a couple of decades.
He basically agrees with you re the takeout and delivery.
He sees even the higher end restaurants going that route and inside becoming like a serve your self deli. The inside customers will place their order at the counter and will serve themselves including picking up their oder.
The drive ins will change to.
Sonic appears to be the one drive in doing well. You stay in your vehicle and place your order on a speaker phone. A car hop brings your meal to be eaten in your car, down the road or in your home. You never get out of your vehicle except to use the restroom.
The high end restaurants with outside yard space will basically only serve you outside. For now you will still have a waiter/waitress to take your order and bring your order to you.
Some will only take your order via computer or phone. You pay online and then pickup your order to eat in the restaurant or outside if the weather cooperates. Long established restaurants in our area have been doing this for years.
Like many things in America, the surviving restaurants will be different.
Grocery sales up 20 - 30 - 50% depending on location and chain.
My son manages two successful burger joints, and they have had record sales during the pandemic. He’s actually earned a couple of bonuses as well. He lost a couple employees; but, are actually running more efficiently. Now this is Florida (Tampa), so it may be different in other locales, but most places seem to be faring well.
A few haven’t figured it out, and some are just using it as an excuse to quit. Under-capitalized and poorly managed, these were already headed to join the 50% of restaurants that go out of business each year.
I can’t tell you how many times I set out to try a new restaurant, and they’re already closed before I get a chance to taste the food. It’s a hard industry, but there’s still plenty of opportunity, despite people YELPing.
At some point people will get back to going out. But in the life cycle of restaurants that’s probably 2 rounds.
As with many other industries, the restaurant industry will need to change and adapt.
Restaurants that will succeed with have to be as much “destination” and “experience” as they are food.
The trend had already started, but it go from being 20% of restaurants to being 80% of restaurants.
Demoncrats are more deadly to business,
than “Round-Up” is to weeds.
~Easy
Buffets can convert to cafeteria style where the customers doesn't handle the common utensils or poke around in open food trays, but staff loads what the customer points to behind the glass.
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