Restaurateurs on the Las Vegas Strip Cope With Diminished Capacity but Vow to Carry On
Four restaurant owners on the Strip share what business is like right now and how they will survive
The Las Vegas Strip in front of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas |
A little more than two weeks into the state’s “pause” that restricted restaurants and bars to 25 percent capacity, permitted only four people per table, and required reservations to slow the spread of COVID-19, independent restaurant owners on the Strip are still trying to figure out how to adapt to make these mandates work. Gov. Steve Sisolak called for three weeks of new restrictions ahead of Thanksgiving, just as restaurants were preparing to serve visitors prix fixe menus of Diestel Farms turkey slices and wedges of pumpkin pie that had, in the past, been a slight revenue boon for November. The new mandates reduced capacity by half of what it had been the previous six months, putting new obstacles in the way of rest