Ehmer says that Waffle House's open kitchen means greater ventilation.Ultimately, the argument against lockdowns is an economic one. The wave of bankruptcies show that many restaurants — large or small — do not have the cash on hand to keep paying workers when sales plummet with dining restrictions.early in the pandemic. The company reduced wages from managers down to grill cooks, who took a $1 pay cut. Servers' lost hours as indoor dining closed and demand dried up.
"Tens of thousands of additional restaurant bankruptcies — and millions of lost jobs — are now more likely, while the science remains inconclusive on whether any health benefits will accrue," the letter reads. "We have to do in the short term what is painful, economically, so that long term, we have a country to go back to — kind of short-term pain for long-term gain," Meyer said. "It would be worse to keep open and keep forging ahead while people are dying left, right, and center of a disease that's totally preventable."
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