Originally Posted by
gaobest
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/d...e=articleShare
Do you want to work for one of the restaurants? Maybe you can work as an investor / manager / staffer at your favorites.
it’ll be interesting if former restaurant consumers like me return or continue to eschew. Even with a busy baseball month of 2-3 practices / scrimmages on weekdays 4:30-6:30 plus the saturday game, I’m still preferring to just reheat / prep things in the fridge as opposed to getting carryout.
We still dine at home 6 nights a week. That usually involves preparing 3 meals and serving leftovers the other 3 nights. We’ve begun the hot season and so the screen porch is no longer comfortable and that’s where we would enjoy takeout. So, dining out is going to be one night a week.
We stopped at a World of Beer this afternoon after an hour of looking at flooring samples. At 3:00, happy hour had just begun and there were more bartenders than patrons at the bar. It’s Cinco de Mayo, fer Chrissakes. They started to wander in as we were leaving at 4:30. This is a place that, IME, is packed every time I go in. I hope the full staff is a good omen.
I don’t really want to work anywhere. I’m retired for good. I do like the idea of investing in a restaurant, but I don’t think that helps the staffing issues and I don’t enjoy losing money, which seems likely without servers and cooks.