Restaurants Lure New Yorkers to States With Fewer Restrictions
Carolina Gonzalez and Kate Krader, Bloomberg News
Customers sit in the outdoor dining area of a restaurant in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. New York City had its credit rating cut by Fitch Ratings because of the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the city's economy.
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(Bloomberg) -- New Yorkers banned from dining inside their neighborhood restaurants are crossing state and city lines to get a bite to eat as temperatures turn frigid.
Restaurateurs are taking notice. To persuade diners to visit their other locations outside New York City and make up for lost sales in the dining capital, business owners are offering promotions and shifting workers to New Jersey, Connecticut and other parts of New York state.