‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates

“There is huge pent-up demand for consumers to get back to normal. They are tired of having their food out of a cardboard box,” he said, but he stressed that, based on vaccination levels and how mask-averse a community is, there is great regional difference in what restaurants can or should do. And, he said, state and local regulations must do what they can to “give restaurateurs the absolute maximum potential for earning,”