{"id":530118,"date":"2021-05-20T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=530118"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:20:56","slug":"a-third-of-california-restaurants-close-permanently-due-to-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-third-of-california-restaurants-close-permanently-due-to-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Third Of California Restaurants Close Permanently Due To Lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-third-of-california-restaurants-close-permanently-due-to-lockdowns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=530118&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Newsom.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A little more than a year after Governor Gavin Newsom instituted the lockdowns, nearly a third of California restaurants have closed permanently and two-thirds of the industry\u2019s workers have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-85 Component-p-0-2-76\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-lifestyle-coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-d4deaa45439a906fcdfac2f0e12b1880\">Associated Press<\/a>, California\u2019s lockdowns have left the food industry battered and bruised in the Golden State. Prior to the pandemic, up to 76,000 eating and drinking establishments employed up to 1.8 million people. Those numbers dropped precipitously as the lockdowns continued throughout 2020 and into 2021. Though the state has eased restrictions over the past few weeks, employment remains a quarter below what had existed prior to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-85 Component-p-0-2-76\">\u201cCOVID-19 has upended all of our lives, but its impacts have been felt more acutely in the restaurant industry,\u2033 said Democratic state Sen. Josh Newman. \u201cIt is clear that recovery will take time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reopening the economy will likely do little to turn the tide given the labor shortage. A legislative committee in the state said that a lack of staff will be a serious impediment for restaurants as they seek to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-85 Component-p-0-2-76\">\u201cMany restaurants are struggling to serve the customers already allowed under current capacity limits because of a lack of staff, the committee said,\u201d reported the AP. \u201cPotential employees may be able to make ends meet with unemployment and federal stimulus benefits instead of going back to work, it said in its report. Some may fear for their safety during the pandemic, while others may want \u2018more stable career paths\u2019 after being repeatedly furloughed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Sutton, California Restaurant Association senior vice president for government affairs and public policy, called upon lawmakers to allocate some of the state\u2019s budget to create incentives for employees to return to work.&nbsp; Kevin McCarney, founder and chief executive officer of Southern California\u2019s Poquito M\u00e1s restaurant, said the recovery will take at least two to three years.<\/p>\n<p>In March of last year, the National Restaurant Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/national-restaurant-association-11-of-restaurants-could-be-lost-in-pandemic\">predicted that 11%<\/a>&nbsp;of restaurants could be closing permanently. Hudson Riehle, the Association\u2019s senior vice president of research, said the data shows the industry is in \u201cuncharted territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssociation research found that 54% of operators made the switch to all off-premises services; 44% have had to temporarily close down. This is uncharted territory,\u201d said Riehle. \u201cThe industry has never experienced anything like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Gov. Gavin Newsom kept restaurants from serving food indoors and at full-capacity, he received an outpouring of criticism after photos leaked of him attending an in-person dinner at Napa\u2019s luxurious &nbsp;French Laundry restaurant. Award-winning journalist Adam Housley \u2014 a previous Emmy, AP, and RTNDA recipient \u2014 claimed that the dinner had 22 guests and ran up a bar bill of over $15k. No masks were worn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Yountville is my hometown..and where the French Laundry is located\u2026I thought I\u2019d do some digging. Facts about the Newsom dinner. The bar bill was around 15-thousand. 22 people in attendance, not 12. No masks. All indoors. They got so loud, other patrons complained,\u201d Housley tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was \u2018zero effort\u2019 to go outside and there was no social distancing of any type. I\u2019m also told some of those there are now privately laughing at the controversy. Remember this is my little hometown. The walls speak,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom apologized for the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-masks-all-indoors-award-winning-journalist-claims-22-people-attended-newsom-dinner-not-12-15k-bar-bill\">&nbsp;\u2018No Masks, All Indoors\u2019: Award-Winning Journalist Claims 22 People Attended Newsom Dinner, Not 12, $15k Bar&nbsp;Bill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than a year after Governor Gavin Newsom instituted the lockdowns, nearly a third of California restaurants have closed permanently and two-thirds of the industry\u2019s workers have lost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312499,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Newsom.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"A Third Of California Restaurants Close Permanently Due To Lockdowns","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Newsom.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"A Third Of California Restaurants Close Permanently Due To Lockdowns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}