{"id":54750,"date":"2020-08-27T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-inability-to-make-a-decision-could-be-death-knell-for-nyc-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:30:00","slug":"de-blasios-inability-to-make-a-decision-could-be-death-knell-for-nyc-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-inability-to-make-a-decision-could-be-death-knell-for-nyc-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio\u2019s inability to make a decision could be death knell for NYC restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio\u2019s inability to make a decision could be death knell for NYC restaurants<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 26, 2020 |<\/span> 10:30pm <\/p>\n

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\n Mayor de Blasio’s indifference to pleas for indoor dining will kill the city’s restaurant scene, owners say.<\/span>
\n James Messerschmidt<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n City restaurateurs reacted with shock and disbelief to Mayor de Blasio\u2019s lack of urgency to reopen eating places indoors \u2014 an industry that employs over 300,000 people and is an indispensable part of the Big App<\/a>le\u2019s social<\/a> and business fabric.<\/p>\n

More than 1,000 of the city\u2019s 25,000 sit-down eateries have closed since the start of the pandemic \u2014 and a prolonged shutdown without a blueprint to reopen threatens to sink many more by winter\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen outdoor dining is done, when PPP loans and SBA loans are spent, it\u2019s over,\u201d said Aquavit owner Hakan Swahn. \u201cAny restaurant will quickly run out of cash. Without indoor dining and any additional government financial assistance we will not be open very long.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Blasio set tongues wagging on Tuesday when he pooh-poohed the struggle restaurateurs face by describing their business as an \u201coptional\u201d activity for people with money that can wait.<\/p>\n

The comments have chefs and owners calculating anew how long they can survive once the city\u2019s program to expand outdoor dining ends on Oct. 31. Many say they won\u2019t last through next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless my [outdoor and delivery] business picks up, we can probably only stay open until the end of the year,\u201d said Key Kim, owner of Japanese hand-roll favorite Maki Kosaka. \u201cRestaurants cannot survive on delivery.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that an indefinitely prolonged shutdown spells doom for high-end sushi restaurants \u2014 a pride of the city\u2019s dining scene \u2014 because \u201cto do omakase [a chef\u2019s tasting menu], we have to order multiple fish from Japan and if it\u2019s not guaranteed to have a certain number of orders, it becomes too costly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert prepares meals for health care workers this past May.<\/span>AFP via Getty Images <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three-Michelin-star Le Bernardin has no takeout, delivery or outdoor seating and chef\/owner Eric Ripert said he\u2019s ready to reopen his indoor dining room next month if it\u2019s allowed. If he can\u2019t open until March, \u201cwe can survive. But the majority of restaurants cannot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Oaxaca Taqueria chain\u2019s dishes are all $13.95 and below. But owner David Schneider says that without indoor service, and without help from landlords and PPP extensions, \u201cIt will be tough to last more than a few months at our Manhattan locations.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Yann de Rochefort, founder of four locations of Spanish-theme Boqueria in Manhattan, survival depends on whether it will have to continue to pay its rents, which range from $16,000 to $50,000 a month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re losing more money [with takeout and delivery] than our rent payments,\u201d de Rochefort said, \u201cIt becomes a question of whether the landlord allows us not to have to pay rent.\u201d<\/p>\n

De Rochefort called de Blasio\u2019s claim that indoor dining is too risky \u201ccapricious\u201d given that restaurants in other parts of New York have served indoors for two months now.<\/p>\n

Carmine\u2019s and Virgil\u2019s owner Jeffrey Bank fumed, \u201cThe mayor can\u2019t have it both ways. You can\u2019t have an identical-size restaurant with an identical HVAC system in Yonkers and Long Island open but not Manhattan. Either we follow the science<\/a> or we don\u2019t.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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