{"id":12536,"date":"2020-06-22T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-owned-businesses-are-helping-the-coronavirus-restaurant-recovery\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T02:42:00","slug":"black-owned-businesses-are-helping-the-coronavirus-restaurant-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-owned-businesses-are-helping-the-coronavirus-restaurant-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black-owned businesses are helping the coronavirus restaurant recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Black-owned businesses are helping the coronavirus restaurant recovery<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 21, 2020 |<\/span> 10:42pm <\/p>\n

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\n Scores of black-owned businesses making the rounds on social media<\/a> are helping some Big App<\/a>le eateries bounce back from the coronavirus sooner than expected.<\/p>\n

LoLo\u2019s Seafood Shack in Harlem, known for its Caribbean-style seafood, has seen revenues go from 50 percent during the darkest days of the pandemic to 70 percent \u2014 and now back up to 100 percent as efforts to support black-owned businesses gain steam, said owner Leticia \u201cSkai\u201d Young-Mohan.<\/p>\n

Business has become so brisk in recent weeks that Young-Mohan \u2014 who runs LoLo\u2019s with chef-husband Raymond Mohan \u2014 has added a takeout\/pickup window to more safely serve customers. The eatery, which serves Belizean conch fritters for $9.87 and softshell crab sandwiches for $12, had previously been letting patrons in the store two at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt started to get busier and we wanted everyone to be safe,\u201d said Young-Mohan, who was born and raised in Harlem. \u201cIt was a safer way for everyone to interact \u2014 from our team to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s no telling how long the boom will last, Young-Mohan says she sees signs that it\u2019s more than a temporary bump, including a recent surge in customers on Juneteenth, a holiday to honor the end of slavery. June 19 \u201cwas literally the busiest day \u2014 not including catering \u2014 that LoLo\u2019s Seafood Shack has ever had in the five-year history of the company,\u201d Young-Mohan said. \u201cMakes me all the more optimistic that support of black-owned businesses is here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Journalist-activist Dorissa White agrees. \u201cPeople are rethinking how they consume and it is for the better,\u201d said White, who recently launched a Buy Black challenge for New Yorkers to restrict themselves to patronizing black-owned enterprises for 30 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cBusinesses, especially in New York, have reached out to say they\u2019ve seen an increase in Web and food traffic and in some cases they have even sold out of their products,\u201d White said, noting that Melba Wilson of Harlem\u2019s legendary restaurant, Melba\u2019s, sold out her entire inventory of cookbooks.<\/p>\n

In lower Manhattan, Robert \u201cDon Pooh\u201d Cummins, a music executive and restaurateur who co-owns Brooklyn Chop House, says his eatery \u2014 known for selling dumplings and sushi alongside steak \u2014 has seen an average of 100 more deliveries a day since the racial justice protests began.<\/p>\n

The restaurant, located across the street from City Hall, has been giving back to protesters, including a recent delivery of hundreds of dumplings and chicken satays to gathering activists. \u201cI think this unfortunate tragedy is uniting everyone,\u201d he said of the George Floyd killing.<\/p>\n

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Aliyyah Baylor, owner of Make My Cake on the Upper West Side and Ma Smith\u2019s Dessert Cafe in Harlem, said she was barely making payroll after the pandemic hit, with sales down to just $500 a day at its worst.<\/p>\n

But then, thanks to the swell of support for black-owned businesses as a way to alleviate systemic racism, \u201cI\u2019m now up to 75 percent of what I was generating pre-pandemic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say they have seen us on support-black-business lists. There are a lot of lists circulating, and we\u2019re on apps and on Facebook posts. There have been a lot of new customers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Delicious food at the right price remains a top priority for most customers, she added, but many mom-and-pop outlets get overlooked simply because they aren\u2019t well-known brands \u2014 not because they don\u2019t provide excellent quality and service, she said.<\/p>\n

Baylor estimates that some 50 percent of her client base are new customers drawn to the lists making the rounds on social media. And she\u2019s already seeing many of them return because they enjoyed their experience and want to make a difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI strongly feel that this is not a trend. It\u2019s not a flash in the pan,\u201d Baylor said. \u201cPeople are adding the black-owned businesses to their community-shopping networks and building relationships.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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