According to the National Restaurant Association, the restaurant industry -- the second largest private sector employer in the US.
File: As of July 10, according to Yelp, there have been 26,160 total restaurant closures across the United States.LOS ANGELES - For Gabriel Gordon and his wife Lena, the small restaurant they opened 14 years ago in the coastal California town of Seal Beach was a dream project and the cornerstone of their future success.
"It's such an apocalyptic time for this industry," Sean Kennedy, executive vice president of public affairs for the association, told AFP."We were the first industry to shut down and we will be the last to recover from this pandemic. In California alone, the statistics are sobering. There were some 1.4 million people working in a restaurant before the pandemic, and over the past four months some 1 million have either been laid off or furloughed, said Sharokina Shams, vice president of public affairs for the California Restaurant Association.
"The average restaurant is making between six and seven percent profits ... and has about 16 days of cash on hand," Kennedy said."And suddenly they are expected to find a way to pay their rent, their utilities, to deal with the inventory.SA Lockdown: Restaurants protest restrictions She said as the pandemic hit, her business plummeted 50 percent overnight and, like other restaurateurs, she had to swiftly adapt to a new reality.
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