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His views about how people shop have also changed. Before, he might have rolled his eyes at a shopper pushing a cart overloaded with groceries. But now he’s grateful that people are taking their shopping trips seriously rather than visiting stores for one or two items.
Even when working at a responsible social distance, going to the store still makes him feel anxious. “Not only do you hyper-analyze everybody that comes up to you, but you also hyper-analyze everything that’s happening in your body,” he says. “If I’m waking up and my throat is sore, is my throat sore because of my sinuses and because I have allergies, or is it because I have been exposed?” Dybash’s store was among those that adopted additional measures in line withfor symptoms.
Dybash considers himself one of the lucky ones. Unlike many of his coworkers, he’s still receiving health care through his former employer, Aparium Hotel Group, through July, and he has some modest savings to get himself and his husband through a short-term financial crisis. The nationwide bailout check has also provided some security. Dybash says that many of his coworkers are forced to supplement their income by working for gig-economy services like Instacart.
Dybash wonders what will happen to his former restaurant workplace and the Detroit food industry if businesses are allowed to reopen under social-distancing rules.But he wonders when and if things might ever get back to normal for him and for the hospitality industry. The Detroit Foundation Hotel where he worked is closed. Nearly every major event of the year — from Movement Electronic Music Festival to the behemoth North American International Auto Show — has been canceled or postponed.
Recently, management placed him in charge of guest services, where he spends the day answering calls from concerned customers. He’s fielding the types of questions one would expect from anyone getting acquainted with this new era of shopping for food: Do you offer curbside pickup? Do you have toilet paper in stock? Dybash finds it a simple pleasure to answer the more standard-issue queries.
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