 Damn, 'Guy's Grocery Games' Hits Different Right Now
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What sets "Triple-G" apart is Guy Fieri, who reminds you to stay positive while doing the best you can Waiting on line to go to the grocery store earlier this week felt like preparing for battle. The store was only allowing 50 people in at a time, including employees, so prospective shoppers waited patiently, estimating a six-foot distance between us, until we were beckoned inside. We weren't timed, but it was implied we were to get in and get out...
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'Cooking Is Gonna Get More Strategic... and Maybe Even More Fun'
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We've never been cooking more, but ingredients are getting harder and harder to come by Judging by Google searches, bean sales, and every other photo on your Instagram feed, folks are cooking a lot right now, stuck at home while social distancing. That includes lots of bread making (has sourdough ever been so popular??) and baking (as Eater's Jenny G. Zhang put it, "Just scroll through Instagram or do a quick Twitter search for "anxiety bakin...
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Restaurants Are Selling Their Trophy Bottles to Make it Through the Pandemic
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As dining rooms close in response to COVID-19, rare wine sales provide a much-needed revenue source for restaurants — and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors As soon as the staff at Manresa learned that they would not be able to keep their dining room open, wine director Jim Rollston knew that their small but premium wine inventory could bring a quick injection of cash to help keep a few people em...
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Of Course Food Service Workers Among Harder Hit By COVID-19
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Plus, McDonald's will start screening employees for symptoms, and more news to start your day Data shows highest levels of COVID-19 in Queens are in areas with a lot of food service workers
As COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continue to rise, data is emerging on just where those cases are centered. New York is one of the hardest hit states, and in the borough of Queens, the neighborhoods of Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Corona have some of the hi...
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Is This the Start of a CSA Boom?
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As home cooks practice social distancing, farm produce that skips the store makes sense Marnie Dresser never thought she'd want to sign up for a CSA again. "I tried it once and it felt like too much pressure," she says. "I just wanted to go to the farmers market." Dresser is an English professor in Wisconsin and lives in a town so small that its store shelves "didn't even empty of toilet paper as soon as the other places," as she describes it. But ...
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Stop Torturing Yourself With Quarantine Diets
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Memes about gaining weight during quarantine are everywhere, and they're body-shaming at its most insidious As soon as it became clear that the only way to mitigate the impact of the novel coronavirus was to isolate and stay indoors, talk of the "quarantine 15," a horrifyingly timely update to the "freshman 15," was inevitable. Stuck inside our homes with only Netflix and snacks as comfort in the middle of what is arguably the most uncertain t...
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Eater Staffers Pick Their Favorite Smitten Kitchen Recipes
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Our editors cook more now than ever — and keep returning to Deb Perelman's blog to do so These days, Eater editors are eating out less and less, due to widespread restrictions on dining in and mandates nationwide to stay at home. That means we're cooking a whole lot more, in addition to ordering delivery and takeout from places we love — and we're also talking about cooking more than ever before. Sure, w...
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These Soothing Instagram Food Drawings Are Also Raising Funds for Restaurants
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Folks are putting pen (or colored pencils) to paper as an outlet for stress and as a way to support the industry The colors of the strawberries, peach slices, and fresh-flower flourishes on top of the cakes — themselves imperfect circles, and slightly off-kilter — are bright, but also kind of faded, and definitely smudgy. These are not Instagram-perfect bakery shots. Instead, they're all drawings, done by hand, of what might be a cake but is maybe a fla...
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A Super-Simple Gray Squash Recipe for Tired Evenings at Home
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This easy recipe, found in Hooni Kim's new cookbook, "My Korea," is perfect for this moment Gray squash may be the most daunting part of the otherwise extremely simple sauteed gray squash and onion recipe found in Hooni Kim's new cookbook, My Korea. Not everyone may be familiar with this specific squash or find its purported hue appealing — and even gray squash fans might find it hard to obtain, as the novel coronavirus has forced some gro...
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A Super-Simple Gray Squash Recipe for Tired Evenings at Home
This easy recipe, found in Hooni Kim's new cookbook, "My Korea," is perfect for this moment Gray squash may be the most daunting part of the otherwise extremely simple sauteed gray squash and onion recipe found in Hooni Kim's new cookbook, My Korea. Not everyone may be familiar with this specific squash or find its purported hue appealing — and even gray squash fans might find it hard to obtain, as the novel coronavirus has forced some grocery stores to close, while ot...
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I'm Sick of Scrolling Past Essays to Get to Recipes I'm Not Paying For
"As someone who is not paying for this freely provided recipe, I feel entitled to complain about it as much as I want." | Photo: uzhursky/Shutterstock
Memo to recipe bloggers: No one wants your life story, says me, an asshole Dear recipe blogs,
Why the FUCK does every single one of your freely provided recipes begin with a thousand-word essay about your life story? I don't need to read about the recent death of your beloved grandmother, whose enduring longing for the fl...
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Grubhub Asks Restaurants to Foot the Bill on 'Supper for Support' Promotions
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At a time when margins are thinner than ever, the delivery platform wants restaurants to opt into offering customers $10 off dinner orders A new Grubhub restaurant delivery promotion called "Supper for Support" isn't quite so supportive as it sounds. The deal, a $10 discount to diners on Grubhub orders of $30 or more from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m daily, is advertised to customers as a way to "save while supporting the restaurants you ...
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'There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do at This Point'
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Grocery, delivery, and other businesses in demand during the coronavirus pandemic are on hiring sprees, but for laid-off restaurant workers, making the switch isn't so simple Angel de la Torre-Miranda has thrived on a career in restaurants. For almost 13 years, he has worked the line as a cook and a sous chef across the San Diego me...
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Home Cooks Trapped by Coronavirus Are Flocking to Meal Kits
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Blue Apron and HelloFresh have seen surges in demand and investor interest over the last few weeks, as home cooks avoid grocery stores Heather Kaufman recently took over her parents' apartment in New York while they ride out the coronavirus pandemic in New Jersey. To stock the fridge, "I had to go to the local grocery store, which has very narrow aisles. It was a little tense," she says. "It ...
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Why Even Meals?
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You could take this time to make yourself elaborate dinners from scratch. Or you could treat every meal like after-school snack. In 2010, The Awl asked a question that has haunted me for a decade: Are You Lunch? In it, Choire Sicha ruminated on a fundamental experience of anyone who has worked from home, rummaging through one's fridge and cabinets to cobble together a plate that'll tide you over without too much effort. A few things presented themselves to hi...
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The Private Chefs Risking Their Lives to Feed the Super Rich
For private chefs, coronavirus has forced difficult conversations with their wealthy clients Everyone's a little stir-crazy these days, even inside the sprawling Southern California mansion where Catarina* works as a private chef. The family she's exclusively cooked for during the last eight years canceled their vacation last week, and now they're practicing social isolation — at least, as far as they're concerned. "The only people who are coming and going are mysel...
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Food Service Workers: Eater Wants to Know How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Affected You
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From line cooks to bartenders to grocery store cashiers, we want to hear how COVID-19 has impacted your job and where you work The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the restaurant industry like a hurricane. Millions of workers have lost their jobs, while many more have been asked to work in unsafe conditions, and the federal stimulus package falls miles short of what independent restaurants need to survive. The National Restaurant Association estimates a $225 billion loss
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Paying Restaurants to Feed the Needy
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From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week This post originally appeared on March 28, 2020 in Amanda Kludt's newsletter "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now.
Last week, I mentioned a lot of the ways restaurant owners and workers were coming together to help one another and their communities. There's o...
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Whole Foods Workers Call for 'Sick Out' on March 31
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Workers are calling on Amazon to provide workers with better benefits, as they have "put [their] lives at risk" Across the country, grocery stores have been deemed one of the few "essential" businesses allowed to remain open. Which means that essential grocery workers are at particular risk of being exposed to COVID-19. Some grocery chains have taken it upon themselves to change their paid sick leave policies, w...
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Join Eater at Home for Wine Classes, Book Clubs, Demos, and More
You're at home, we're at home, let's hang out We've loved hosting events in our Eater Test Kitchen in NYC — book club, wine chats, one-off dinners with our favorite chefs — and we've whipped up a way to bring them to life on screen. The best part? You don't have to be in New York to tune in. We're inviting you all to hang out with us with Eater @ Home, via Instagram Live and Zoom.
To kick things off, join a cook-along to tackle a recipe from a brand-new cookb...
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Eater at Home
In this time of shelter-in-place and social distancing, while restaurants have switched to delivery-only or closed entirely, eating — and finding the pleasure in eating, wherever we can — has taken on a whole new urgency.
Eater at Home is the source for anyone who wants to feel deeply engaged with food and dining culture, which now, more than ever, is in our homes. Of course, dining culture has never been limited to restaurant spaces and restaurant food; it's about feedi...
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Everyone's Making Sourdough Now — Here's How to Get Started
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If you want to get into making sourdough bread, you need a reliable recipe, a starter, and some basic tools. Over the past two weeks, as millions of Americans started working from home and sheltering in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 across the country, King Arthur Flour's website saw its highest traffic since the day before Thanksgiving. Bill Tine, King Arth...
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Pantry Cooking 101
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Everything you need to know about relying on kitchen staples to do more cooking than ever before Once your pantry is fully stocked, and you've settled in to an extended period of staying at home, it's time to get cooking. While you may not be firing off restaurant-level dishes at home every day, there are plenty of chef-driven recipes that hit at the nexus of delicious and doable. Better yet, many make use of a mix of pantry staples and a ...
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How to Stock a Pantry
A shopping list to make your cooking that much better With the restaurant world continuing its devastating free-fall and more cities issuing stay-at-home orders, it's a fair assumption that you will be cooking at home, potentially more than ever.
If you're used to going out to restaurants, this can feel like a jarring transition at first. Professional chefs are professionals for a reason; they have an arsenal of techniques and ingredients that few home cooks — even the ...
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World's 50 Best Restaurants Postpones 2020 List and Awards Ceremony
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The organization plans to launch new initiatives to support the hospitality industry in light of the coronavirus pandemic There will be no World's 50 Best Restaurants list this year. Both the awards ceremony set to take place in Antwerp, Belgium on June 2 and the announcement of the ranked fine dining restaurants will be postponed until 2021. Instead, accordi...
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If the Stimulus Package Fails Independent Restaurants, It Fails America
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Simply put, the deal isn't good enough for small business owners or millions of service workers A $2 trillion stimulus package — "the largest of its kind in modern American history" — has just been signed into effect by President Donald Trump. The numbers are big. $377 billion in small business loans. $100 billion to hospitals. But as restaurant industry observers like my colleague Ryan Sutton comb through the details...
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Florence Pugh's Home-Cooking Instagram Videos Are Here to Save You From Boredom
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The "Little Women" actor cooks meals from her LA home and answers questions from fans In times of hardship, we tend to seek comfort in life's purest pleasures: food, sleep, and British actor Florence Pugh. Like the rest of us, the star of Midsommar and Little Women is staying home to do her part to flatten the COVID-19 curve and is channeling her anxiety into cooking. Pugh has been sharing her culinary creations (and cactus surgeries) on Instagram...
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Instacart Workers Plan Nationwide Strike to Demand COVID-19 Protections
Workers for grocery delivery app Instacart plan to walk off the job on March 30. | Photo: Tada Images/Shutterstock
Gig workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic want hazard pay, safety gear, and extended sick pay Instacart gig workers are planning a nationwide strike on Monday, March 30 over the grocery delivery service's response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, citing the company's failure to implement "proper safety precautions" as requested by worker...
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Should I Even Be Making Wine at All Right Now?
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An independent winemaker considers her options in the face of the coronavirus pandemic Brianne Day is an American winemaker working in the Willamette Valley, just south of Portland, Oregon. There, she owns and operates Day Wines, an eclectic indie label of lauded wines sourced from throughout the state of Oregon, as well as Day Camp Winery, a tasting room and winemaking facility home annually to around 10 other independent
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Fuck It, Let Them Eat Cake
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As we collectively lose sense of time, holiday recipes — and birthday cakes when there are no birthdays — are the salve we need Last weekend, my kids requested cake. A two-tiered chocolate cake, specifically, with vanilla icing and rainbow sprinkles — otherwise known in our house as "the Birthday Cake." Everyone in my family gets a version of this cake on their birthday, that we slice and serve with candles one night and then continue to...
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Now Is a Time of Boom and Bust for the Liquor Industry
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While grocery and liquor store sales are up during the pandemic, small breweries are on much shakier footing The dining room at chef Albert Di Meglio's Brooklyn restaurant Barano might be empty, but business at Spirit Animal, his natural wine store next door, has never been better. "People have been buying cases," says Di Meglio, who's careful to let in just a few customers at a time to ensure social...
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Closing Time
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Mei Lin made the difficult decision to close her LA restaurant Nightshade due to coronavirus. That was just step one. In early January, Mei Lin, the chef and owner of Nightshade, a modern American restaurant in Los Angeles's fashionable Arts District, read about a new virus spreading rapidly through China. "This is something so serious, it's super contagious, and I knew it was going to affect the industry...
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Yelp, GoFundMe Make COVID-19 Fundraisers for Restaurants Without Their Permission
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Blindsiding businesses that were already in a tough position Andy McMillan didn't expect to see a call for donations splashed across the Yelp page for his fledgling Portland business, Suckerpunch, a just-barely-opened bar serving nonalcoholic cocktails that temporarily closed amid the COVID-19 outbreak. McMillan hadn't started any fundraisers — but Yelp and GoFundMe had...
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Trump Says Restaurants Will Make a Comeback, Just Maybe With New Owners
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The president's response to projections that 11 percent of restaurants could go out of business in the next month due to COVID-19 was less than reassuring to current restaurant owners During a White House press conference on Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump addressed the grim projections by the National Restaurant Association that, in addition to the 3 percent of restaurants already shuttered, 11 percent of restaurants nationwide...
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With Their Restaurants Closed, Chefs Turn to Instagram Live to Inspire Home Cooks
Miami chef Brad Kilgore in a series of cooking videos he published to TikTok
How social media offers valuable information and a sense of community as folks stay at home To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call for many is an understatement. It has exposed a number of flaws throughout society, but perhaps among the most fundamental is the lack of knowledge we have as a whole of how to, in some cases, do just about anything in the kitchen. Though a portion of th
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Chocolate, To-Go Cocktails, and Soothing Scents to Get You Through
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Your weekly dispatch from the 'Add to Cart' newsletter This post originally appeared on March 25, 2020, in Add to Cart — the weekly newsletter for people who love shopping (almost) as much as they love eating. Subscribe now.
At-home HIIT classes, bread making, drinking wine with friends over Zoom — everyone seems to have their own way to respond to the novel coronavi...
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In 'Wine Girl,' a Sommelier Recounts Misogyny and Abuse in the Fine-Dining World
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Victoria James's new memoir traces her rise in a toxic restaurant industry Victoria James knows Wine Girl won't be an easy read for everyone, but that's partly why she wrote it. "I was telling my publisher, 'I feel like this should come with a trigger warning on it,'" she says. "It's not easy for a lot of women and I get that. But it's stuff we...
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Farm Workers Are in the Coronavirus Crosshairs
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Farm workers work, live, and travel in crowded conditions, and are being allowed few if any safety measures against COVID-19 — which puts them and the food system at risk This story originally appeared on Civil Eats.
Late last week, Yazmin Alvarado set out for the strawberry fields near Oxnard, California anxious and afraid of catching the novel coronavirus. Part of a crew of more than 100, she knew she was at high risk.
Members of her ...
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So Everyone's Googling 'Bread' Now
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Coronavirus isolating has led to a bread-baking boom Bread — maybe you've heard of it? The combination of water, flour, yeast, and salt, staple of many Western diets for thousands of years? Social media flex of tech bros and tech bros only? But maybe you haven't. In the alarming word slurry of Google Trends during a pandemic ("vaccine" and "unemployment" are doing great!), the number of people searching "bread" hit an all-time high th...
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Even Waffle House Is Closing Locations Because of Coronavirus
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The Southern diner chain so rarely closes its doors that the federal government uses it as a disaster-relief barometer In response to the novel coronavirus crisis, Waffle House has closed 418 restaurants across the U.S., the chain announced across its social media channels on March 25.
#WaffleHouseIndexRed: 418 Waffle House restaurants closed. 1,574 open.Call your lo
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Airlines Cut Back Food Options Drastically in Response to COVID-19
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New restrictions on in-flight meal and drink service go into effect today. Yes, that means no booze. If you can avoid it at all, don't fly. Cancel your tickets (you can! It's fine!), unpack your suitcase, and stay home for a bit in an effort to "flatten the curve" and curb the spread of COVID-19. But in case you still need to take that trip, know this: America's airlines are also adjusting to new realities, and a number of major domestic airl...
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For One American Island Destination, Coronavirus Feels Worse Than a Hurricane
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No one knows how long COVID-19 will keep the sleepy Outer Banks cut off from the mainland On North Carolina's Outer Banks, closing the bridges is nothing new. The same thing happens every year during hurricane season when severe weather forces evacuations and shops and restaurants to literally shutter. This time, however, no one knows...
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I'm a Restaurateur and Coronavirus Forced Me to Rethink My Business Plan
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Indiana restaurateur Martha Hoover, who oversees 12 restaurants and more than 400 employees, on making decisions in a constantly changing environment Since COVID-19 reached the United States, restaurateurs have been forced to decide for themselves how to keep their businesses afloat amid changing mandates. In some places, restaurants ar
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Until the Government Orders a Rent Freeze, Here's How Restaurant Owners Should Talk to Landlords About COVID-19
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Lawyer Jasmine Moy breaks down how to approach landlords — and why you need an attorney right now With restaurants facing mandated dining room closures and decreased sales in the wake of COVID-19, many operators are struggling to make this month's rent. To find out what options are available to them, Eater turned to go-to restaurant lawyer Jasmine Moy to learn more.
"I know it's easier said than done, but if you can, try to relax and understand tha...
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Restaurant Suppliers Are Opening Up to the Public to Keep Their Businesses Alive
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Foragers, farmers, and fishers across the U.S. are offering delivery and pickup to the general public "Probably until the recent past, and I do mean the recent past," Jason Roland says with a laugh, "about 70 percent of our sales were to restaurants." He and his wife run Organically Roland, a two-acre farm in South Carolina where they grow produce like sunchokes, broccoli, sweet potatoes, and collard greens. On March 18, th...
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In China, a Glimpse at the Future of Restaurants
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As life returns to normal in Beijing, quarantines, temperature checks, and social distancing remain the norm at restaurants Please, allow me to be the first to tell you that there is, in fact, life after the novel coronavirus. In Beijing, after almost two months of fear, quarantines, and emerg
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By the Numbers: COVID-19's Devastating Effect on the Restaurant Industry
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As the novel coronavirus has spread across the world, collateral damage has been far and wide, with the restaurant industry sustaining one of the heaviest blows. While on-the-ground reporting is revealing that impact one story at a time, reservation apps, point-of-sale systems, and other tech platforms have effectively captured an enormous snapshot of the tectonic disruption in their databases — painting a quantifiable picture of just ho...
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Asia's 50 Best Restaurants Announces 2020 Winners With a Virtual Event
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According to World's 50 Best, the restaurant community in Asia requested that the rankings go on "to shine some positive light into the darkness" Today, the restaurant ranking group behind the World's 50 Best Restaurants list released its annual list of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants. For the second year running, Singapore restaurant Odette took the No. 1 spot during a virtual announcement tha...
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An Industry in Crisis Mobilizes to Help
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From the Editor: Some uplifting stories from the past week This post originally appeared on March 21, 2020 in Amanda Kludt's newsletter "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now.
A week and a half ago, a restaurateur told one of our editors here that this was going to be worse than 9/11 for the industry. We thought hewas fearmongering. Turns ...
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FDA Suspends Routine Food Inspections Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
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About 77 percent of the U.S. food supply is regulated by the FDA In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to "flatten the curve," the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is halting all routine surveillance inspections of facilities that manufacture food and other FDA-regulated products, the fede...
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Loss of Taste and Smell Could Be Signs of COVID-19 in Otherwise Asymptomatic People
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Emerging data show that 30 percent of 2,000 patients who tested positive for novel coronavirus in South Korea experienced anosmia You don't have a fever or a sore throat, nor are you experiencing fatigue, a dry cough or digestive issues. You feel generally healthy, but mysteriously you've lost your sense of smell or taste. Known as anosmia, this loss of the senses is emerging as a symptom in the otherwise asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19, the n...
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Starbucks Goes Drive-Thru Only in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic
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America's third place is no longer an option Virtually every Starbucks location in America is transitioning to drive-thru-only to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. In a press release sent on March 20, Starbucks announced that the policy would be put in place for at least two weeks and will supersede the chain's original COVID-19 response, of making its cafes to-go only.
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How Food Scenes Around the World Are Coping Amid Coronavirus
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Dispatches on the global state of eating from writers on the ground As restaurants in the US struggle to survive amid the myriad of tight restrictions put in place in the wake of COVID-19, one thing to remember is this: America is not alone. Around the world, cities and their food systems are being affected by the spread of Coronavirus in a
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Why Are Insurance Companies Denying Restaurant Claims in Wake of Pandemic?
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As government mandates force restaurants to close their dining rooms, operators learn insurance won't help On the morning of March 16, less than 24 hours after closing her restaurant the Banty Rooster in New York City's West Village, Delores Tronco-DePierro filed a business interruption claim to her insurance company. In the days leading up to the closure, diners, encouraged by government officials, ha...
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Liquor Laws Loosen Up in the Face of Delivery-Only Dining
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Some states are letting restaurants turn to takeout booze to make up for lost profits After mandatory closures imposed by 25 states to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, bars and restaurants might never be the same — and the liquor laws that govern them, loosened on an ad hoc, temporary basis during this crisis, could be forever changed, too. In New York, where operators have been forced to close entirely or pivot to d...
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7 Food Memoirs to Read Right Now
Plus, four to look forward to this spring With the world changing every day during this novel coronavirus pandemic — and the industry we report on facing unprecedented challenges — I know I am turning to old comforts for solace, to fill the time, and to make sure I'm supporting the businesses that I love in whatever ways I can. For me, that means getting delivery and takeout from the local restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, but it also means supporting the independen...
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Some Restaurants Are Channeling Their Hardships Into a Way to Feed Health Care Workers
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Sending meals to hospitals allows restaurants to use supplies and give employees hours while feeding the people working around the clock to keep us healthy Nobody envies a hospital worker in a pandemic, especially when — like right now — doctors and nurses are facing a shortage of hospital beds and COVID-19 tests, and no vaccine. So restaurants and good samaritans alike are banding together to offer one bit of solace: a good meal.
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Opting Out of Takeout
Why some of D.C.'s most celebrated restaurants are sitting out of takeout and delivery as dining rooms shut down across the city
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Restaurants Are Evolving Into Corner Stores to Stay Alive
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Businesses are using their stores of pantry staples, cleaning, supplies, and toilet paper to provide for the community and make an income during the COVID-19 pandemic The restaurant industry is nothing if not scrappy. In just a little over a week, many establishments across the country that may never have considered dabbling in delivery before have now adopted it wholesale as a means of survival in the new and frightening landscape created by novel coronav
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The Grim Comfort of Delivery Toast
The new role of Sqirl's iconic dish reflects the anxious, difficult reality of social distancing The famous toast arrived huddled in clamshell packaging, snuggled in and protected; opening it felt like breaking the seal on a sleeping pod. The topping's edges were a little mussed, its swirls askew, but otherwise the toast looked like it was supposed to look: A fat, long slice of brioche heaped with a cloud of white ricotta, smeared with three pink-to-purple tones of jam lik...
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Employees Petition to Temporarily Close Starbucks
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"The moral thing to do, would be to suspend business, while paying partners, until there is a grip on the virus" As government officials are considering shuttering all but essential services, Starbucks employees have a message to Starbucks management: we're not essential. In a petition with over 20 thousand signatures, Starbucks employees are imploring the company to suspend business until further notice, as "both custom...
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