The coronavirus crisis has left millions unemployed, but few businesses have been hit as hard as California’s estimated 90,000 restaurants.
Industry experts predict that as many as one-third of them will never reopen, while others are trying to navigate a maze of new sanitation rules and guidelines for physical distancing that have gutted seating charts and boosted in-house costs.Advertisement; through May, Newsom moved quickly to reopen much of the economy. But troubling signs emerged in mid-June and have only worsened.
The latest order was especially painful for those in the restaurant industry who believed they had done everything right, investing in staff training and gloves, masks and other supplies to meet health restrictions. “We haven’t seen evidence that suggests these cases are from restaurants,” said Condie, referring to the surge in new infections.
In Orange County, a succession of restaurants have temporarily closed after one or more employees were infected with COVID-19.
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