Restaurants across the country are having to make changes — and sacrifices — to keep their businesses afloat, like changing their layouts, procedures for staff and how many customers they accept. But many worry this still won't be enough to save them.
But even doing takeout in the pandemic has been a challenge. Link says he had to close it down and reconfigure when people started congregating in the restaurant.
"I assume we'll be all wearing gloves and masks, which is a bummer," Link says."There won't be a lot of hugging and handshaking and back-slapping and all that." Link says customers and staff will have to adapt to prevent a resurgence of the virus, which he says could cost lives and destroy the restaurant industry.
"I was happy when they called us back to at least come start getting the place cleaned up and stuff," McQueen says."Then when we found out we were opening, it was great."
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