04-16-2020, 04:26 AM
The sit down dining experience will not be economically viable unless those who want it are willing to pay a premium for it. If dine in places are required to reduce capacity they aren’t going to be able to afford the rent of their current footprints. The only way to make it up will be surcharges to sit down and be served.
The average folk or those who won’t pay that surcharge to sit and be served will be reduced to take out dinners or deliveries. If people are staying home much more, this will be a fair trade off.
Another alternative will be commercial kitchens that prepare food and deliver it, but don’t have any dine in option at all. Pizza chains and Zune have done this. Restrauters could rent kitchen only spaces that you see on a show like Top Chef and produce their food that way.
Food trucks are another path forward. Rather than going to areas people work, they could do signups for people requesting them at certain residential locations and show up when they have enough requests.
Just because established business models are being disrupted, it does not follow that new ones won’t replace them. Keep in mind forest fires are engines of forest re-generation. The pandemic reality will cause damage to those wedded to previous ways, but new opportunities will also be available to do things differently. The same dynamics will be true across the entire economy. Those who insist on trying to operate the same way will suffer, while those who are willing to adapt quickly will thrive.
The average folk or those who won’t pay that surcharge to sit and be served will be reduced to take out dinners or deliveries. If people are staying home much more, this will be a fair trade off.
Another alternative will be commercial kitchens that prepare food and deliver it, but don’t have any dine in option at all. Pizza chains and Zune have done this. Restrauters could rent kitchen only spaces that you see on a show like Top Chef and produce their food that way.
Food trucks are another path forward. Rather than going to areas people work, they could do signups for people requesting them at certain residential locations and show up when they have enough requests.
Just because established business models are being disrupted, it does not follow that new ones won’t replace them. Keep in mind forest fires are engines of forest re-generation. The pandemic reality will cause damage to those wedded to previous ways, but new opportunities will also be available to do things differently. The same dynamics will be true across the entire economy. Those who insist on trying to operate the same way will suffer, while those who are willing to adapt quickly will thrive.