What a difference a year makes: Trends born of the pandemic might endure
May 11, 2021 Operators talk about changes they made, and how they’ll affect business forever.
Fransmart’s Rise Southern Biscuits & Righteous Chicken developed an app and installed kiosks and heated food lockers at its stores so people could place orders online and come in minutes later to pick up their food. For more than a year, restaurants have faced huge challenges and changes due to COVID-19. Now, as customers gather in restaurants again and the industry slowly emerges from the crisis, experts are looking at trends developed during the pandemic that have staying power.
Businesses frustrated by slow vaccine roll out are starting to see hope March 17, 2021
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Cars line up at a Lehigh Valley Health Network COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Dorney Park in South Whitehall Township. The health network planned to vaccinate 4,000 people on March 11. PHOTO/LVHN
There seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel with the COVID-19 pandemic as vaccine rates begin to pick up in Pennsylvania.
Still, many are frustrated with the slow pace up until this point – especially in getting vaccines to those working with the public who aren’t health care workers or teachers in group 1a of the state’s vaccine roll out.