China News Service, July 6. According to the US "World Daily" report, in New York, the United States, on New Year's Eve this year, the passenger flow of Chinese restaurants was also affected by the epidemic and extremely cold weather. The attendance rate was less than one-third of previous years. After the mask order was lifted, Chinese restaurants have only recovered slightly, and most Chinese people are still worried about gatherings. However, as the epidemic further eased, many people took advantage of the National Day holiday in the United States. , Some catering operators said that business is booming and has almost fully recovered to before the epidemic, hoping for "a better year ahead."
During the lunch market on the National Day holiday, the Sovereign Restaurant in Flushing and the lobby that can accommodate 900 people are almost full. Manager Huang said that whether it is a tea market at noon or a reserved banquet in the evening, the long weekend is full of people. There will be a wedding on the evening of the 3rd. On the evening of the 4th, there was a 90-table group dinner, and more than a dozen boxes for family gatherings were already fully booked, and the bookings for the second half of the year were also the best year after the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020. Upstairs".
The manager surnamed Huang said that maybe the days are longer in summer, maybe because the epidemic control is over, people go out to spend in revenge during the holidays, and one event is followed by the next one. Compared with before the epidemic, the guests at the lunch market came earlier. , so the working hours of the kitchen and service staff are one hour earlier than before. From morning to night, there are also customers eating one after another. In the middle of this month, the newly designed summer seasonal dishes will also be launched to meet more customers.
The manager of the New Magnolia Hotel in Flushing also said that there were always people queuing in the lunch market on long weekends, and some people even lined up for half an hour. The hall that can seat 300 people has about 70 to 80% of the occupancy rate, and business is 50% better than usual. , the epidemic is under control, and dine-in customers are returning at an accelerated rate, which is much more than the loss of 70% of dine-in customers on New Year's Eve. "The restaurant industry is slowly recovering."
(Zheng Yiyan)