{"id":26643,"date":"2020-03-30T00:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26643"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:07:06","slug":"restaurants-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/restaurants-struggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants Say They&#8217;re Struggling to Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/restclose.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As far as eating out goes, it&#8217;s practically business as usual for our family. We &#8220;do takeout&#8221; every day and haven&#8217;t sat down in a restaurant to dine since a year ago for someone&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>However, our takeout adventures have taken some twists and turns during the COVID-19 crisis in which restaurants are no longer permitted to serve customers in their dining areas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve spoken to many restaurant workers\/owners and among them, our favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/chinese-coronavirus\/\">Chinese restaurant we recently promoted<\/a> suddenly had a note on the window today about being closed due to coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>One of our Italian favorites with a dining room nearly at capacity most weekends has adjusted to curbside pick-up, though the Chicken Limon in our food order today was smaller than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we did Greek fast food takeout. The eatery&#8217;s restaurant traffic has been slow but picked up when they offered 20% off the entire menu all Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>According to National Restaurant Association new research details early impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the restaurant industry. A survey of more than 4,000 operators offers details on how outbreak is hurting sales and operations.<\/p>\n<p>As the coronavirus epidemic rages on&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>88% of operators reported total sales volume March 1-22, 2020 was lower than the same period a year ago<\/li>\n<li>70% have had to lay off employees and reduce the number of hours worked<\/li>\n<li>More than 60% say they have had to reduce their operating hours<\/li>\n<li>54% of restaurant operators have switched to off-premises service only<\/li>\n<li>Roughly 50% anticipate more layoffs and hourly reductions over the next 30 days<\/li>\n<li>44% have temporarily closed their restaurants<\/li>\n<li>11% say they anticipate permanently closing within 30 days<\/li>\n<li>3% of restaurant operators have already permanently closed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as eating out goes, it&#8217;s practically business as usual for our family. We &#8220;do takeout&#8221; every day and haven&#8217;t sat down in a restaurant to dine since a year ago for someone&#8217;s birthday. However, our takeout adventures have taken some twists and turns during the COVID-19 crisis in which restaurants are no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26644,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643\/revisions\/26644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}