This Texas restaurateur has done anything and everything to survive the shutdown. First came the impromptu store. Then, a household sanitizer called 'the Corona Killa.' And once they could sell alcohol-to-go: Corona-ritas.
After the state passed an emergency measure to let restaurants sell alcohol-to-go, the Corona Killa was followed soon after by the Corona-"We started selling packages of Corona-rita as our margaritas. We were strategizing, we were thinking off our feet all the time," Morales says.
The public reaction to Texas lifting stay-at-home orders has been mixed. Some folks are still hunkering down at home. Others are stretching their legs and tiptoeing back into public life. "This is the first time out in, literally, in seven weeks," said Richard Scherer, a petroleum engineer, who was having the catfish special."It's for mental health purposes that I got to get out. Seriously."
His lunch partner, Jay Reynolds, a local oil and gas investor, was not troubled that going out to eat — he had grilled chicken breast in"I believe if we do what they ask us to do, I feel safe," Reynolds said."I feel like I want to get out, just like Richard. I've been at my home, my office. That's all I've done. So I think the virus is serious but I think you've got to go on with your life.
Gerardo's Casita is struggling, like every other restaurant in town. Jerry Morales is looking anxiously toward Monday when Gov. Abbott will decide whether to let restaurants increase their occupancy from 25% to 50%. The proprietor shudders to think what happens if a new wave of the coronavirus hits next fall.
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