Even when the restrictions are lifted and businesses start opening up, “I, for one, don’t see myself returning to restaurant work after this,” one restaurant owner said. “There’s going to be less money in it.”
A list of organizations helping restaurant workers who have lost their jobs or had their wages reduced because of COVID-19Gutierrez, who was sidelined by COVID-type symptoms in late March, also has applied for food stamps, spoken to her landlord and credit card company, and deferred her student loans.
She’s trying to think of it as an opportunity, putting her yoga teaching certification to use by conducting online sessions, working on her podcast and writing. After all, that’s why she had gone back to waitressing after four years away, to give her the flexibility to do more with her creative dreams.
Namm also saw it as a solid bet for employment, doing what her dad, a former newspaper printer, advised her — picking a job that a computer couldn’t take over.Her restaurant also shut down in the face of the pandemic, forcing her to file for unemployment, along with her fiancé, who is also a chef. “I think I’m OK for now. If my unemployment doesn’t come in soon, I’m definitely going to have a talk with my landlord,” she said.She’s apprehensive about what the future holds for New York City’s restaurants, worried about finding another place to cook in a world where there are limits to how close people can be to one another.
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