Chefs and restaurant owners have been forced to make a difficult choice: stay open while risking the safety of their employees and customers, or shut down.
Then Ricker dropped by one of the restaurants one day and “saw one of our guys kinda slipping — he had his gloves off, he was standing within two feet of another guy and I knew right then, we had to close. We just don’t have the discipline to stay far away from each other in the kitchen.”, laying off more than 150 employees in the process.
The risks to staying open are many: while there's little concern about the virus spreading through food, it can live on takeout containers for a couple days, and is typically spread by people being in close proximity. It's impossible to monitor delivery drivers 24/7; shortly after New York started self-isolating, a photo circulated on social media of dozens of delivery drives bunched around each other, waiting to pick up orders and definitely not maintaining six feet of distance.
Takeout has worked for Quaintrelle, but Eckersley is under no illusions that it’s some sort of cash cow. “There’s no way we’re making money,” says Eckersley, explaining that the biggest night of takeout totaled about $2,000 worth of orders. In a typical dine-in night, Quiantrelle doubles or triples that number.is also worried about keeping his customers and employees safe, while still being able to pay for food and salaries.
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