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.
