Drive up eats may end....

[Bill in NC]

cbelt3 wrote:
The restaurant industry is experiencing a significant collapse at this moment. Considering the tight margins, operating without 1/4 of a year's income will be fatal for many of them.

I remember how few restaurants existed in the 1960's and 1970's. My family 'ate out' exactly one day a year... on my mother's birthday. We would go to the same Italian restaurant every time. The rest of the time Mom fed us, and eventually all of her children helped cook... in self defense. It was that or hang out at a friend's house for dinner.

At our favorite family-owned Italian restaurant the son who wore a suit every night as host has now been relegated to pizza delivery driver...and by their own admission business is very slow at all the restaurants/fast-food places we're still patronizing.

Which are fewer and fewer as this continues since as others have noted home-cooked food is often tastier & is certainly much cheaper than restaurant food.