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Corona Virus and Small Restaurants - Wakelet

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Ways Customers can support their local restaurants

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Ways Customers can support their local restaurants

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A good tip that I suggest to many customers is to take the time to make an order around the community and have food from a small restaurant at least once per week. That extra money that you spend each week can really help small businesses stay in business and continue to keep their reputation. Another good way to support these small businesses is to donate to them as stated by many news corporations.

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How to keep your food safe during quarantine

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How to keep your food safe during quarantine

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Having a repuation for good food and safe food is very important if you want more customers to feel safe and buy your food. Here are some tips to keeping food you ordered safe.
1.) Make sure to refridgerate food if not eaten right away. Bacteria can begin multiply if the food is 40-140 degrees and left like ths for at least 2 hours.
2.) Make sure to always check the temperature of the food and to make sure the boxes the food is put in is decontaminated.
3.) Always make sure food is washed and clean to handle. Also make sure chefs are wearing proper gloves to handle food. Additionally, utensils should be washed about 20 seconds before using them according to the CDC.
4.) Avoid keeping foods together to avoid cross contamination if one type of food is infected with germs, no other type of food could get infected with the same germs.

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Stay positive! Quarantine will not last forever, and we will always get through anything that challenges us. If every small restaurant gives up, then many communities will be ripped apart and nobody can let this happen. It is up to the customers and the bussiness owners to work together to make the safest possible food and attract customers. Here is a video that will hopefully make poeple realize that there is still hope for small restaurants during the quarantine.

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What does the CDC have to say about restaurants?

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What does the CDC have to say about restaurants?

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Many people still believe that food transportation is very dangerous during quarantine, and many people fear this fact. While we do not know much about Coronavirus and it's mysterious ways, we do know that there isn't any evidence that Coronavirus can't spread through food. This was a statement directed by the CDC and FDA research. They claim that the virus can only be spread from coughing and sneezing, as it is a respiratory illness. So, it is safe for restaurants to keep delivering.

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Local restaurants offering deals during outbreak

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What should small restaurants be doing to stay open?

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What should small restaurants be doing to stay open?

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There are many things that small businesses could do to stay open, and they don't require too much effort. The easiest way of getting more people to come to your restaurants is advertising. A good way to advertise for take-out and delivery through these times is social media. Remember that everyone has a heart, and many people will miss a part of the local community if your business goes out of business permanently.

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Restaurants need to be very cautious when quarantine starts to end. Being very cautious with food preparation will be very useful as they have always been doing since the beginning of this outbreak. Keeping social distancing in the restaurant and not keeping it too busy will also be very beneficial. If Coronavirus breaks out in the restaurant, it could be even worse than it has been for the best a few months already. There is a good chance that your business could get shut down again and maybe permanently if this happens. That is why food handling and delivery need to be very similar to what is now as quarantine ends.

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During the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses should be worried. This is a very difficult time for many people and many businesses because many owners can't keep their restaurants open. According to a statistic, nearly 48 percent of all small businesses in the U.S. will be closed temporarily, while 1/5 will be closing permanently.

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What does Coronavirus mean for customers?

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What does Coronavirus mean for customers?

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Coronavirus makes many people stay at home including some business owners. For the businesses, this means many customers cannot travel to get food out. Overall, keeping your business open is a competition between may other small restaurants. This is the main reason that so many businesses are saying goodbye and unfortunately, some won't reopen.

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In March during the huge outbreak in cases of Coronavirus, the Senate passed a Relief effort of about 349 billion dollars to loan to small businesses. The businesses did not need to pay the money back. This was the first sign of hope for many business owners. However, there was a loophole.

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What was the loophole in the relief effort?

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What was the loophole in the relief effort?

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There was a section of the bill that allowed many larger businesses to take advantage of small businesses. The bill was directed towards businesses that had fewer than 500 employees which also accounted for newly founded larger businesses. The large businesses took over half of the relief money and the small businesses were again left in the dark. A good example of this tragedy happened in Colorado; a restaurant called Ruth's Chris, which qualified for relief money and took 20 million dollars even though they have more than 150 locations in the U.S. and made a revenue of a whopping 468 million dollars. Many small restaurants are furious, and they should be, but there is still hope.

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My favorite neighborhood restaurant is effectively closed down right now, and there's a good chance yours is, too. As an increasing number of cities and states issue shelter-in-place orders, many of these places-now legally limited to serving take-out-have made the difficult decision to suspend business altogether, citing the financially impossible combination of hefty overhead and slow sales. In many cases, that's also meant full layoffs of their staffs.

As a human being with a heart, it's been difficult to accept that the smiling faces of servers, bartenders, and baristas who greeted me several times a week have been replaced by furrowed brows as the newly unemployed imagine a long stretch with no paycheck-and the owners of these establishments face the prospect of financial ruin. My support for my favorite places has been limited to what's felt like meager attempts to keep them afloat: buying gift cards for future visits and contributing to GoFundMe pots set up to benefit the workers. In the case of my neighborhood joint, I've also been buying up stashes of the extra coffee beans they're selling off and baked goods they're occasionally churning out from their kitchen.

This week, the Senate passed an emergency relief bill that included $349 billion in loans to small businesses; any amount spent on payroll, rent, or utilities would be converted into grants that do not need to be repaid. That seemed like a welcome stopgap for places like the restaurants I frequented in a pre-pandemic life. But when I went to place one of those ad-hoc bakery orders today, I was met with this protest:

The post takes aim at a section of the bill that allows big restaurant and hotel chains to take advantage of the small business relief money for any of their individual hotels and restaurants that have fewer than 500 employees. Critics argued that these big chains will take more than half of the allocated funds, leaving many smaller businesses without the cash they need to stay afloat. "Masquerading these franchisees as small businesses will pull the rug out from under independent bars and restaurants," the post says, inviting followers to speak out against this loophole.

Other restaurants across Washington, DC, where I live, posted identical messages. When I asked one of the restaurants where the image had originated, they directed me to the DC Hospitality Coalition, whose ally organizations in Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York had posted the same thing. (I reached out to the DC group; I haven't yet received a response.)

An earlier version of the legislation had reserved the whole pot for independently owned small businesses, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) slid in the provision allowing restaurant and hotel chains could qualify. So a pot of money that was supposed to support more than 30 million small businesses and their nearly 60 million employees-which, by the way, is almost of the entire US workforce-will now be split with companies like McDonalds, which took in a record $100 billion in sales and returned more than $8 billion to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends last year.

To be fair, the issue is complicated. Many of the name-brand hotel and restaurant locations that will benefit from the loophole aren't actually owned by multinational corporations but are instead run by franchisees. But couldn't companies like McDonalds make those franchise owners and their employees whole without the help of the American taxpayer? Seems like the kind of thing that the $25 billion McDonalds doled out to shareholders over the last three years would have been good for.

On Friday, the Democratic-run House passed the Senate bill on a voice vote. Some of the House's most liberal lawmakers-often the staunchest defenders of the little guy-have said they hope to fix some of these problems in a future relief bill they promise is in the works. (The Senate has adjourned until at least April 20, and the House is not in session, making the timing of another round of relief unclear.)

I selfishly miss spending my evenings sitting at the counter sipping coffee or a glass of wine, soaking in the twee aesthetic and fermentation-heavy menu seemingly plucked from the imagination of a Bon Appetit-reading, farmers market-buying millennial like myself. When my favorite spot reopens, I plan on holding court there to make up for lost time. But the question is, will it and others like it even be able to come back? It is an absolute insult that big corporations are cutting small businesses' place in line.

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Small restaurants are furious about a loophole in the stimulus bill. They should be.

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