How Will New York Restaurants Reopen? Nobody Knows. 🔗 🇺🇸 🗽 🍽 💸 🦠

‘People Don’t Know How Bleak It Really Is’ There is no road map to reopening New York’s restaurants.

For better or worse, prematurely or maturely, conversations around COVID have recently tilted toward reopening. When? How? Who? (With 1.4 million people unemployed in New York State, the Why? is obvious.) But for the 321,000 chefs, restaurateurs, and restaurant workers, many of whom have been out of work since mid-March, everything is still cloudy as hell. The future is obfusc. We all have to eat, but no one knows how, when, or even if we’ll do so in restaurants again.

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