China News Service, March 30. According to the US "World Daily" report, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, New York's Chinatown restaurant and small businesses were severely damaged. Most of the businesses chose to temporarily suspend business, and only some restaurants remained open. The businesses that chose to operate were also forced to reduce their product categories and close their operations early. Diners also said, "For the first time when you can't buy food in Chinatown."
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in New York, Chinatown BID has updated its restaurants that are still open daily on its social media, and has done its best to increase the number of "still insisting" merchants to increase some orders, but there are still some Listed merchants reluctantly chose to close in advance.
Daquan Dumplings, the favorite dumpling shop in Chinatown, is still open during the epidemic. However, the industry operator said that not only the number of customers packing food into the store decreased, but the take-out order was also decreasing day by day. Although the opening of the registration with the commercial reform zone, there are too few customers, so the snooze time is getting earlier. , It's closed. "
Not only was the business of small restaurants bleak, but earlier Chinatown Jinfeng Restaurant was forced to close due to the outbreak. Claudia Leo, the restaurant's marketing director, said the 48-year-old iconic Chinese restaurant in Chinatown also had to slow down due to the epidemic. Jinfeng has 800 seats, and its food inventory during the epidemic can still supply 3,000 customers.
XO Food Shop added plastic partitions at the front desk. The only two employees also wore masks and gloves. The options for take-out menus were also very limited. The industry said that it is still open now because the food inventory has been hoarded a lot, and it will be closed after the reserves are consumed. The economic impact of this epidemic on Chinatown is unprecedented, and customers said, "Sometimes you can't buy food in Chinatown." (Zhang Chen)