Restaurants Will Need a Miracle to Survive This

Rohini Dey, founder and owner of the Chicago restaurant Vermilion, gets real in this opinion piece for CNN.com. 

Like thousands of restaurant owners across the country, she's trying to figure whether to try to stay open — or shut her doors for good.

Selling T-shirts, hats and gift certificates is not going to save us," writes Dey, who is also a trustee of the James Beard Foundation. "As more states begin phasing in restaurant reopening, many of us have no idea what the right move is. But we do know this: We need drastic, realistic solutions so restaurants can survive into the Covid-era future."

She says only solving this public health crisis will ultimately fix the issue. "Everything else is a suboptimal fix," Dey writes.

Read the full article here.