Dec 06, 2020

Restaurants are Closing Permanently Due to the Lack of Government Efforts

‘Free-fall’: 10,000 restaurants have closed over the past three months, according to the National Restaurant Association

Written by Joanna Fantozzi, Nation's Restaurant News

The National Restaurant Association (NRA) has reported that 17% of restaurants have closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of those, 10,000 have closed in just the last three months. In a letter to Congress, NRA's Executive Vice President Sean Kennedy said, "What these findings make clear is that more than 500,000 restaurants of every business type […] are in an economic free fall."