{"id":168591,"date":"2021-02-02T05:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/restaurateurs-show-no-love-for-valentines-day-indoor-dining-return\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T05:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:34:16","slug":"restaurateurs-show-no-love-for-valentines-day-indoor-dining-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/restaurateurs-show-no-love-for-valentines-day-indoor-dining-return\/","title":{"rendered":"#Restaurateurs show no love for Valentine’s Day indoor dining return"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Restaurateurs show no love for Valentine’s Day indoor dining return<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Some Valentine\u2019s Day gift!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Restaurateurs say Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s plan to reopen indoor dining at limited capacity on Feb. 14 won\u2019t help them make money \u2014 but they\u2019re doing it anyway for fear of losing out to the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s complicated,\u201d explained Barry Dry, CEO of Parched Hospitality, which owns the Aussie-style Hole in the Wall restaurant cafes. \u201cIf you have a brand and a restaurant that people like and then you shut it down, you lose all that brand recognition and people will start going to other places.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The idea, said Dry \u2014 who also owns The Sentry, a rooftop restaurant and cocktail bar opening this month at Hotel Hendricks and Hotel Henri \u2014 is to keep the brand in people\u2019s mind so they return in larger numbers in the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tribeca\u2019s Kitchen, which will open for the first time inside on Valentine\u2019s Day, agreed that the governor\u2019s plan to let restaurants open at 25 percent capacity presents owners with a dilemma: Open now at little to no profit or save the headache and risk being left behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a projection. We will make 1 percent profit. It\u2019s a bold prediction. It\u2019s a better shot that we will lose money,\u201d says Rick Camac, Tribeca\u2019s Kitchen\u2019s operations director.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t make money at 25 percent capacity and it\u2019s a joke if anyone thinks they can. But you kind of have to be open. We just built a beautiful space. We can\u2019t build and not open,\u201d Camac said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of opening it to be benevolent for our employees and part is purely for marketing \u2014 just to keep our name out there. To break even is a great goal in my opinion,\u201d Camac said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Restaurateur Guy Vaknin of the Beyond Sushi vegan restaurant chain \u2014 and a new vegan restaurant, Willow, opening this month \u2014 says that with limited indoor dining at 25 percent capacity, he hopes, at best, to break even.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 25 percent, we will just break even,\u201d Vaknin says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Guy Vaknin, chef and owner of Willow. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe are doing it to keep the company and the brand going, and to keep my employees and me employed and to look into the future when we will go back to 50 percent and then 75 percent and then 100 percent indoor dining capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point,\u201d he added, \u201cit is not about making money but circulating enough funds into the system to survive until the gods of New York decide we can open fully. For now, we are still burning money but we will be burning less when we can open indoors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But in order to operate when his current revenue is 10 percent to 15\u2009percent of total revenue before the pandemic, he had to borrow \u2014 a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I doubled down and borrowed even more so I could open my new restaurant, Willow,\u201d he said, adding that he believes revenue will increase to 30 percent or 35 percent with limited indoor dining.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really sad. I\u2019m making it work on crumbs. I started the pandemic with no debt, but I decided to borrow money for the first time in my life to survive. It\u2019s been rough, but it is what it is and I\u2019m not going to let this get me down,\u201d Vaknin said, adding that he is a big believer in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe New York will come back stronger,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to keep the restaurants going.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI love what I do and I can\u2019t stop doing it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Restaurateurs show no love for Valentine’s Day indoor dining return” Some Valentine\u2019s Day gift!\u00a0 Restaurateurs say Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s plan to reopen indoor dining at limited capacity on Feb. 14 won\u2019t help them make money \u2014 but they\u2019re doing it anyway for fear of losing out to the competition.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s complicated,\u201d explained Barry Dry, CEO…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/willow-restaurant.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[91587,70430,70344,22512,71970],"class_list":["post-168591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-1-21","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-restaurants","tag-side-dish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}