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OC Restaurants Lament Move to Purple Tier, as They ‘Keep on Taking Such a Beating’

OC Restaurants Lament Move to Purple Tier, as They ‘Keep on Taking Such a Beating’
A file photo of a waiter delivering food to a table at a restaurant in Newport Beach, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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Jamie Joseph
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IRVINE, Calif.—It’s business as unusual—a new, crushing COVID usual—for Orange County restaurants amid a new wave of restrictions prohibiting them from offering in-house dining.

As the COVID-19 pandemic presses on, the county’s surge of recent cases landed it in California’s most restrictive, purple, tier on Nov. 16. There were 628 new cases of the virus Nov. 18; two deaths were reported.

Michelle Thompson is an editor and reporter based in Orange County, California. Her award-winning work has appeared in numerous major Canadian daily newspapers, as well as multiple U.S. publications.
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