Have millions of restaurants ou t there. Of sales forion these companies. Familyownedre with less than 50 employees. And the great majority of them have been closed down. Million people who work in restaurants, up to 15 million have been collecting Unemployment Insurance already. Thehat is a good chunk of nearly 40 Million People who have applied for Unemployment Insurance. So the business has been devastated. Of that 900 billion, the businesses estimate they will lose about 300 billion this year. That could be conservative. Host looking at information from the american restaurant association, this puts it in stock terms. Of 32. 4 billion dollars was the smallest volume since march 2005. However, adjusting for inflation, Consumer Spending at eating and drinking places plunged to its lowest level in april since 1984. To takeoutnge over and delivery helped some of these restaurants at all, or is it costing them or to stay open . Guest that has been a big debate. You could argue allowing
Spend the last half hour talking about the future of the Restaurant Industry. Good morning. Guest good morning to you. Host what has been the overall impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Restaurant Industry . Guest it has been devastating. Right after the cruise lines and airline business, restaurants and bars have been hurt the most. And it is a very different kind of business from the two i mentioned, the cruise ships and airlines, which are very concentrated. With restaurants, i mean, you have millions of restaurants ou t there. Of sales forion these companies. Familyownedre with less than 50 employees. And the great majority of them have been closed down. Million people who work in restaurants, up to 15 million have been collecting Unemployment Insurance already. Thehat is a good chunk of nearly 40 Million People who have applied for Unemployment Insurance. So the business has been devastated. Of that 900 billion, the businesses estimate they will lose about 300 billion this y
His writing career and books on indepth. Watch booktv this memorial day weekend on cspan2. Journal continues. Host once again, we are going to open up our phone lines to you with the question, will you attend church in person once they are reopened . On friday,because President Donald Trump announced that his administration is moving toward deeming places of worship essential, which means he wants governors to start reopening religious institutions for services immediately. In fact, here is President Trump and what he said. [video clip] President Trump some governors have deemed Liquor Stores essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It is not right. I am correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now. If there is any questions, they are going to have to call me, but they will not be successful in that call. These are places that hold our society together and
We need to convince the county that livermore is ready to open. And events like today arent going to help. Reporter now, across the street from the protest, there were a few raised eyebrows. I understand what theyre trying to do and everyone has their own opinion, but at least try and separate a little bit is what im thinking. We understand that there are diversities of opinions about whats going on. We appreciate that. Reporter but the message from this crowd today their patience is wearing thin. If it goes on too much longer like this, itll be past the point of no return. We will not recover. Reporter in liver jrmore, wilson walker, kpix 5. All right, well, alameda county, that includes livermore, is expected to move to stage two of reopening next week. That means curbside retail and manufacturing. Contra costa county could allow both as early as tuesday. San francisco, san mateo and marin are planning to make the move on monday. The only bay area county staying put in stage one for
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