The owner of a restaurant in Oakland’s Chinatown has seen half his business disappear since the coronavirus outbreak.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with the owner of a small Chinese restaurant in Oakland, California’s Chinatown. The conversation has been transcribed, condensed, and edited for clarity by Aaron Mak.
Probably a month and a half ago things were going OK, but since it’s spread more to America people don’t want to come. DuringI had 25 percent less business compared with last year. In February it rapidly got worse. It should be safe for people to come to my restaurant. It’s mostly to-go, so people should be OK since there are not too many people sitting together. They might be OK bringing it home and eating it.
Since you can’t talk to the people who don’t come in, you don’t know what their reason is. But when I talk to the customers who come back, they are more worried. Some of them even wear masks to the restaurant. It’s mostly local people who live a few blocks away who come now, but people aren’t coming from other areas. We’re sanitizing every four hours now. Since there’s been a slowdown, I’m asking my employees to clean more often and we wash our hands a lot more.
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