{"id":98283,"date":"2020-10-27T04:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-eateries-beg-gov-cuomo-to-reopen-or-get-some-info\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T04:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:57:17","slug":"nyc-eateries-beg-gov-cuomo-to-reopen-or-get-some-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-eateries-beg-gov-cuomo-to-reopen-or-get-some-info\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC eateries beg Gov. Cuomo to reopen \u2014 or get some info"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC eateries beg Gov. Cuomo to reopen \u2014 or get some info<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n New York City\u2019s struggling restaurants have given up hope that they will be allowed to double their indoor seating on Nov. 1 amid rising infection rates and radio silence from Albany, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Restaurant owners and lobbyists say they\u2019ve heard zilch from Gov. Cuomo on his promise to consider increasing indoor dining capacity by the end of this month. That silence has left them unable to plan \u2014 and bracing for another wave of closures.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we would have heard by now if indoor dining was going to expand by November first. People need time to prepare,\u201d said restaurant consultant Donny Evans.<\/p>\n

\u201cRestaurateurs are scared,\u201d Evans added. \u201cWithout expanded indoor dining, there will be a tsunami of closings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indoor dining in NYC launched for the first time in six months on Sept. 30 at 25 percent capacity, which restaurant owners say isn\u2019t enough to keep them in business once it gets too cold for outdoor dining.<\/p>\n

But many moved forward anyway on Cuomo\u2019s Sept. 25 vow to look at raising indoor capacity to 50 percent by Nov. 1 if infection rates remained steady.<\/p>\n

The seven-day moving average of coronavirus cases across the city at the time was 882, according to Worldometers.com. Now it\u2019s 1,665, or roughly double, as the city deals with spikes across nine zip codes that have already been forced to pare back their reopening efforts.<\/p>\n

Still, restaurateurs say they want answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat angers me the most is that Cuomo doesn\u2019t give us direction for the future,\u201d said restaurant consultant Rick Camac, director of operations for Tribeca\u2019s Kitchen. \u201cAll of us who thought Nov. 1 was happ<\/a>ening spent money getting ready for it. There is a cost to reopen. Will some restaurants now be going out of business? Absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Governor\u2019s office didn\u2019t immedia<\/a>tely return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Andrew Rigie of the New York Hospitality Alliance said his organization is now pushing for the governor\u2019s office to increase indoor capacity to 50 percent minus the red zones in a last-ditch effort to help city restaurants survive the winter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are advocating for 50 percent occupancy in non-red-zone areas, with potential modifications in yellow and orange zones,\u201d Rigie said. \u201cOutside of those zones, the infection rates remain low, so we\u2019re hopeful we can safely increase to 50 percent like the rest of the state,\u201d he said, citing a statewide average of 1.2 percent \u201cwithout the red zones\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRestaurants will continue to close even with 50 percent occupancy but it\u2019s still more helpful than only having 25 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The pop-up counter at Chikarashi Isso.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Selwyn Chan, co-owner of Chikarashi Isso, says he doesn\u2019t plan to reopen his Rector Street location until indoor dining capacity is at 50 percent. It just doesn\u2019t make financial sense, he said.<\/p>\n

The 25 percent capacity \u201cis a joke. For us, that would have meant 18 seats,\u201d Chan said of the fine-dining establishment, which doesn\u2019t have outdoor seating.<\/p>\n

In an effort to pay the bills, Chikarashi Isso last month opened an outdoor pop-up at the Hotel 50 Bowery. It\u2019s a ten-seat chef\u2019s counter on the hotel\u2019s second-floor terrace, where Chef Atsushi Kono prepares a 13-course yakitori omakase menu for $150 per person.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur current strategy is to get by with the limited off-site outdoor pop-up and wait for the 50-percent capacity before reopening our actual restaurant space,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n

Still, he\u2019s not sure how long he can hold on. While his landlord has been forgiving so far, \u201cthat can\u2019t last forever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And once he does reopen, Chan sees \u201cone shot to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a second wave shuts us down, it will be the nail in the coffin,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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