has found people with coronavirus were twice as likely to say they have dined — indoors or outdoors — at a restaurant in the past two weeks.
"It went from a line out the door during lunch to no one being even interested in coming by," says Conor Mack, who co-owns and runsin Austin, Texas. He estimates that annual sales dropped by about 20% and that weekly sales have fallen from roughly $1,000 per week to $750. Jo McDaniel, general manager of A League Of Her Own, known as "ALOHO," a lesbian/queer bar in Washington, D.C. says the pandemic has impacted her business significantly.
"We saw our tips percentage go down because we're no longer this entertaining, super fun group. We're like 'If you're going to get up to use the restroom, you have to put your mask on before you stand up,'" she says. "So we become these sort of harbingers of doom. And we're reminding people that it's not normal. We're not in a normal situation.
While Washington is still working in various restaurants, he has — like many others in the industry — shifted his career during the pandemic. He recently partnered with a local museum,, to create pop-up events where he sells historically accurate meals,
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