Saddled with debt, payroll and mounting utility bills North Carolina restaurants are struggling to remain open even as the state starts to ease stay-at-home restrictions. Gov. Roy Cooper’s plan to reopen restaurants with limitations beginning May 22, but owners are having to make tough choices right now.
“Every day it gets harder and harder,” said Lou Reda, the owner of An American Table in Rocky Mount.
Only thirty-five percent of restaurant owners in the state have indicated that they can stay afloat beyond two months of closing down or offering limited service, according to the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Associations. That two month marker is rapidly approaching. Restaurants in North Carolina shut down around Mar. 17 to adhere to restrictions put in place to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
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