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Susan Benoikken sits in the empty, sunny dining room of Medina Oven & Bar in Dallas. It’s been a little over a year since she took over the restaurant, and months of struggle and grief show themselves in her rounded shoulders and melancholy eyes.
Across from her sits her accountant surrounded by stacks of bills and receipts. The numbers don’t look good, he says. While the restaurant is open for dine-in, patio seating and takeout, customers are sporadic. Sales are still too slow to keep up with the costs of running the restaurant, and while operating with a skeleton crew and getting a break on rent from the landlord have helped, it’s not enough to pull her business off a dangerous ledge one thousands of restaurants are teetering on as the pandemic continues to ravage the industry.
An Italian tour of Dallas: Lasagna, cannolis and Sunday Gravy from favorite family restaurants
Eataly may have all things Italian, but here are some other classic Italian-American dishes at Dallas’ family restaurants.
The 100 layer lasagna will be on the menu when chef Julian Barsotti opens his latest restaurant Fachini in mid-February. The lasagna is uncooked at preparation, other than the pasta, and cooked by slice before being brought to the table. Two portions of 50 layers are made separately and then placed one on top of the other. Jarred Russell, executive chef of Fachini, and Barsotti demonstrated how to the prepare the dish at Nonna in Dallas Friday December 15, 2017. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)(Andy Jacobsohn / Staff Photographer)
Struggling restaurants and chefs lobby to end ‘insane’ European food and wine tariffs
A new group called the Coalition to Stop Restaurant Tariffs is petitioning the incoming Biden administration.
In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, Parmigiano Reggiano Parmesan cheese wheels are stored in Noceto, near Parma, Italy.(Antonio Calanni)
Chefs and restaurant owners from around the country are joining forces to petition the incoming Biden administration to lift some of the financial burden from the struggling restaurant industry.
The Coalition to Stop Restaurant Tariffs, a newly formed group made up of some of the nation’s top chefs and restaurateurs, is making the case that tariffs on European food and wine imports are needlessly crippling already suffering businesses, and it’s time for them to be done away with.
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Richardson restaurant on the cusp of closure as Christmas approaches
Aboca’s Italian Grill is one of thousands of Texas restaurants behind on bills and low on customers.
Artur Pira, owner of Aboca s Italian Grill, stands in Aboca s dining room on December 10, 2020. Aboca s is a restaurant in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. (Hunter Lacey / Special Contributor)(Hunter Lacey / Special Contributor)
Artur Pira stands in the middle of the empty dining room of his Richardson restaurant. It’s 10 a.m. on a Monday, and staff polish glassware, fold napkins and chop vegetables to prepare for lunch service.