Originally Posted by Adam Smith

I haven't seen that issue here (yet). But I do know the guy who runs my favourite Italian-style pizza place and the guy who owns the donair place I usually go to. Both have said that they're barely covering costs of ingredients and labour, not making much towards their fixed costs or for themselves. The guy at the pizza place says business is down about 75% from the same week the previous year, and also said he has been noticing business drop off week by week. He figures that the longer this goes, the less people will feel they have the money to spend on pricey pizza. He has resisted shutting down because it's so much work and hassle to get it up and running again, but at some point, if he's not covering the cost of his ingredients and what he has to pay the small staff, he'll have to. The donair place is essentially a one-man operation, and he doesn't want to just sit around the house, so he said he'll probably stay open.

Yet the place where I get my Vietnamese subs seems to be super busy. Always people in there for take-out and lots of couriers in and out when I go there, so they might be doing okay.