“This past holiday season [restaurants and bars] were hoping not to make money, but at least earn some money to pay off some debt. And now they're just collecting even more debt,” Andrew Rigie of the New York City Hospitality Alliance says.
. He had been hoping for a return to a more normal winter, especially with vaccines and booster shots widely available.
At what was supposed to be the busiest time of the year, Brizzi was forced to temporarily close all of his restaurants due to the rapid spread of the omicron variant. At one point, he said 10 of the 13 people on staff at Grand Army tested positive for the virus during a 48-hour period. Over in Queens, Dudley Stewart had a similar experience with his Jackson Heights restaurant,“We had a lot of private parties lined up, we had several catering gigs lined up, and all of those got canceled.
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