Drive up eats may end....

[sekker]

We are TRYING to do take out to support our local businesses, but the food has frankly been disappointing or inedible.

So tonight it's home-cooking for salmon.

We will keep trying, but at this point it'd be better if we just gave donations.

We were thinking of buying gift cards - do not even have to go out for those.

[Grateful11]

Not even doing take out or delivery here. Only food from the grocery store prepared here at home.

[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.

[Sam3]

sekker wrote:
We are TRYING to do take out to support our local businesses, but the food has frankly been disappointing or inedible.

So tonight it's home-cooking for salmon.

We will keep trying, but at this point it'd be better if we just gave donations.

We were thinking of buying gift cards - do not even have to go out for those.

I see a problem with that, what if the restaurant closes, goes belly up as more and more are doing? You've lost your money and no worker outside of the owner, who shuttered the place, made out. We just lost a 4 year old Bravo Cucina here, they didn't even bother to let the workers know they closed permanently.