Restaurants Navigate the Road to Recovery; With almost 1 million U.S. foodservice locations and 15.6 million employees, the restaurant industry has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic (NRA 2020a). As of June 30, 2020, restaurant job losses exceeded 5.5 million; 7.4% of U.S. restaurants were temporarily closed, and 3.5% had permanently shut down. Urban restaurants, which lost a key customer base as employees shifted to working remotely, were hardest hit (NRA 2020b, Datassential 2020a). In the first five months of the pandemic (March to July 2020), sales at restaurant and non-restaurant foodservice outlets (which include those at hotels and academic institutions) plunged by $165 billion and were headed for a decline of $250 to $300 billion in 2020 (NRA 2020a).
http://www.ift.org/news-and-publications/food-technology-magazine/issues/2020/october/features/restaurants-navigate-the-road-to-recovery?MessageRunDetailID=3562063854&PostID=20530837&utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_ioThis will be a very, very, very hard Way, as far as I can say.
