BUSINESS: Four Ways to Adapt Your Restaurant’s Business for the Coronavirus Crisis
Straight talk: coronavirus is bad for our economy but it’s especially bad for bars and restaurants. Our industry survives and thrives off the social tendencies of people, but when all our guests are ordered to lock themselves in their houses, what can you do? You adapt. You find ways of bringing in every cent that you can. If there’s any industry that can find a way to evolve and wade water, it’s restaurants.
To help jump start your brainstorming process, here are some ways restaurants can adapt their business to survive the coronavirus crisis and serve their communities.
DID YOU KNOWS…
Ryan Reynolds Donating 30% of Aviation Gin Sales to Out-of-Work Bartenders
Ryan Reynolds continues to be a gift. He announced that now through May 1st, he’s donating 30% of his Aviation Gin proceeds to the United States Bartender’s Guild as part of their new “Tip Your Bartenders” program. The goal is to help ease the financial burden felt by out-of-work bartenders affected by COVID-19. Aviation Gin kicked off the program with a $15,000 donation to the Guild. Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively, also donated $1 million to two organizations representing food banks across the US and Canada.
COVID-19’s Impact on Global Education
Nationwide closures of educational institutions have now affected 1,379,344,914 students or 80 percent of total global enrolled learners. A further 284 million learners are being impacted in some way by localized school closures, such as those seen in U.S. states like California and Virginia. In total, 138 governments have now ordered country-wide closures of their educational institutions.
An Image is Worth a Thousand Words
We’re all about gallows humor here at The Rail, and the current healthy & economic crisis seems like an apt time for it. That’s why we chuckled at this image outside the Black Cat Bar describing what it’s like to be working in the hospitality industry right now.
Coronacrisis: Day 14
GOVERN OUR WAY OUT OF THIS
Why it matters to you: The Massachusetts Governor has proposed allowing restaurants to include beer & wine for off-premise consumption.
The situation on the ground since March 12th -- when pretty much every major national sport, shutdown -- has been fluid, to say the least. Even when that announcement came, many of you still didn’t think it would close or limit your operations. And then it did.
From there all anyone is talking about is how restaurants can stay safe and continue to serve their guests in some form. That’s why a proposal for Massachusetts to allow beer and wine included in delivery/carryout services is a new and finally progressive move.
Prior to now, the amount of limits that the governors across the country have imposed has created a rapid regression for every restaurant in the country, especially full-service locations. Operators have been finding new and innovative ways to stay open and keep their staff on payroll. That is why this thoughtful modification is a lifeline for restaurant operators to continue to serve. As well, for many folks at home, it will influence their choice to order from restaurants that can include beer and wine. Small comforts can go a long way.
By relaxing or even rewriting legislation that would block beer and wine off premise, it demonstrates the governor understands that difficult times call for some abstract ideas. Even if those ideas might challenge what was thought to be ok just days in the past. This is exactly the type of thinking we need from our legislators right now and we applaud it.
[Source: CBS4 Boston]
