District Restaurant News | Spring 2020

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Shifting from dine-in to takeout By Rick Zambrano

Restaurants embrace longstanding, increasinglyrelevant best practices to bolster their chances of success amid COVID-19 outbreak Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, restaurants have necessarily moved to delivery, drive-thru and curbside business only. As dining rooms have closed due to stay-at-home orders and protective ordinances in the Washington, D.C. Region, restaurateurs are fully focused on the takeout game. It’s an enormous shift for restaurants that typically have been accustomed to having only 5 to 20 percent of their sales derive from takeout. However, as we’re hearing around the DMV, restaurant owners are willing to take that gamble to keep businesses open. 12 District Restaurant News


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