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Originally Posted by GeechQuest
Again, anecdotal but our fine dining establishments "opened" this past Friday. Except most didn't because nobody would come to work, and that's with a monitored 25% occupancy.
My BIL is a waiter at a Top-5 restaurant in town and asked to go back at the end of July, along with the other wait staff who already got on UE. His restaurant, which planned on opening May 1st, is still closed because nobody is working.
When will they open? Who knows? I guess they could fire everybody, but then what? Nobody in my town is ready to go back, so you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Except if you fire these people they can claim UE on you for a longer time AND you have to invest in retraining staff IN BULK.
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The problem here isn't the staff in the sense of future difficultly, its whether or not the restaurant is around. Rent among other costs are not going away and there's no PPP to help if your employees were already let go. (Insurance another large one).
Many restaurants won't survive when it comes time to open ... IF that opening doesn't happen in full force, this summer.