Restaurants Prepare to Reopen

With the coronavirus pandemic restaurants initially faced a choice closed completely or adjust to offering takeout our delivery now as some states slowly reopened they may have more decisions to make Maya Rodriguez reports from South Carolina where restaurants are preparing for the day customers will be back inside as Johnny D's waffles and Benedict's the kitchen may be hot we were having a really good mark but the dining area is stone-cold it went it dropped big-time chef and restaurant owner Jamie tsk Alice says even with offering takeout business at her

Myrtle Beach restaurant is down 90 percent all but one of her 30 employees out of a job along with 8 million others who work in restaurants across the country so everyone else is laid off indoor dining is still off the table in South Carolina but as the governor begins allowing more businesses to reopen some are prepping for the day when diners may be allowed back inside 

I have been preparing in my brain-like what I want to do some ideas she has included removing condiments and napkin dispensers from tables giving each guest a disposable paper menu guests will have to wait outside to be seated and she'll space out tables to comply with social distancing fewer tables though means fewer customers and less revenue 

I think that the profit margin is going to be even slimmer but I just want to make enough to pay bills and you know keep my employees employed getting employees back won't be instantaneous we have to bring them back then they have to train them then they have to make sure they have all the right-hand sanitizer and protocols at the federal level some members of the coronavirus task force are cautioning about reopening businesses too quickly like restaurants, if there's a way that people can social distance and do those things then they can do those things

 I don't know how but people are very creative but there are fears that not every restaurant will survive the corona virus pandemic and that when all this is over the restaurant scene, we've become very accustomed to well very different I'm nervous for some restaurants though Jamie hopes Johnny D's will still be left standing I just want to be here for when this is done in Myrtle Beach South Carolina this one would look good thrown in the dirt I'm Maya Rodriguez reporting Videolytics

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