Welcome to the whole story. You may have noticed dining out right now is different than it was before the pandemic. For one, there are fewer restaurants. An estimated 70,000 fewer since covid 19. Higher prices and sometimes added Service Charges that many restaurants say our final to keep them running. More restaurants are Offering Takeout and delivery services. Restaurant and had to adapt and evolve in order to survive. One of the establishments that didnt survive was bobby flays longtime new york restaurant got two. He close the doors days after the lockdown began and that Experience Led him to think about who made it through the pandemic and why. Over the next hour bobby flay takes us to restaurants around the country from oregon to kentucky to new york and introduces us to some of the leading chefs and experts say that dining out has changed for good. March 2020. States are shutting down restaurants. That is a sector that has switched off overnight. Like so many in the restaurant i
business, everything costs more in general because of inflation but the bottom line is labor is more expensive than it used to be. the commodities, you know the foodstuffs have gone up of course and occupancy costs are traditionally always high. so for the landlords haven t said, we are going to lower your rent. i don t think that s going to happen anytime soon. want to be in the restaurant business, u have to understand it s going to be tough. you can definitely make it happen. there s plenty of really good stories of people running restaurants and making a really big profit but it s gotten tougher. don t miss bobby flay s new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper. it s next right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining us. john t tim acosta is back next weekend, have a great t weekend