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100,000 Restaurants Shut by State or Local Governments, Many Can’t Survive: Industry Group

100,000 Restaurants Shut by State or Local Governments, Many Can’t Survive: Industry Group
People sit at the bar of a restaurant in Austin, Texas, on June 26, 2020. Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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7/16/2020|Updated: 7/16/2020

A trade group representing about a million of America’s restaurants is calling on lawmakers to help the nation’s ailing eateries after it said nearly 100,000 restaurants were shuttered recently amid pandemic-driven reopening rollbacks.

The National Restaurant Association, the world’s largest food service trade association, on July 15 sent a letter to Congress along with a “Blueprint for Restaurant Revival” (pdf), urging a range of relief measures and estimating that the nation’s restaurants are on track to lose $240 billion in revenue this year.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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