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Full-service restaurants that have persevered through dine-in bans are not out of the woods yet. Reopening, even once it’s back to full capacity, brings its own slew of challenges.

Throughout the evolving stages of COVID-19, your brand will benefit if you’re presenting a cohesive, well-executed safety strategy.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced Monday that dining rooms will close for a second time effective Wednesday.

Restaurants across the country are facing a setback as a growing number of states roll back reopening strategies in light of a spike in COVID cases.

NYC Hospitality Alliance executive director Andrew Rigie describes COVID-19 as “four near fatal months of economic disaster.” And center for Big Apple restaurants is rent, often the largest fixed c ...

As implausible as this might sound, we’ve now spent roughly a third of a full year under COVID-19 conditions.

While the vast majority of restaurants are taking great pains to follow state and local mandates surrounding COVID-19, there exists a small contingency of operators who are flouting those regulatio ...

With COVID-19 cases rising and states backtracking, the future remains cloudy for restau

A lot of correlations are drawn between the Great Recession and COVID-19 in terms of potential recovery. But there are considerable differences. For one, coronavirus is a global crisis. ...

For as eager as restaurants may be to reopen or increase their capacities, phasing back into business as usual comes with a whole host of concerns.