I think it's a bad idea to close restaurants.

Went to target for a work from home monitor.

They had only 3 lanes open for checkout.

3 consecutive lanes when there are like 12 to choose from.

50 people were huddled next to each other in line.

Morons everywhere.

Take out baw.

Restaurants are going to do a lot of take out. Young people don’t cook.

It will severely hurt wait staff that make most of their money off tips though.

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You can order take-out...or buy a gift certificate in the short-term to help out your local, preferred eatery.

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Or I can just eat in. It's equivalent and in some cases better than going to the crowed grocery.

Not all gift cards work that way actually. A lot of times the money is pooled. If you buy a 10 dollar gift card at one of my places;

1.) I take your payment and it goes into my bank.
2.) The gift card processor takes the amount of the gift card from my account plus any fees associated with the purchase of the gift card.
3.). I only make money when the gift card is redeemed for products at one of my locations and I also pay merchant fees on the redemption of the gift card.

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This is not "help" and may be the dumbest thing I've seen people suggest. That is merely deferred revenue. It may help with short-term cash-flow, but that gift certificate is NOT cash. You buy it now and use it later. They don't get to recognize that revenue twice.

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What are you talking about? This absolutely helps. The cash helps provide immediate liquidity so the places can pay their employees and keep the lights on during a period where sales are more than likely going to be down.

Also, spoilage is a very real thing so for a portion of the purchase the merchant actually WILL get to realize that revenue twice.

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The pressure on grocery stores will be even greater and cause more social closeness at grocery stores. At least with restaurants open food choices are higher and as long as you are quickly in and out it will provide greater social distancing.

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Restaruants should stay open to satisfy the public and other industries.
From each according to their ability, to each according to their need, eh comrade?

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Take out baw.

Restaurants are going to do a lot of take out. Young people don’t cook.

It will severely hurt wait staff that make most of their money off tips though.

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I have less trust in the safety of food which is delivered to my home . Never know the level of contamination that might occur so I dont use Waitr or Postmates.

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Have you seen all the Karen’s with 3 shoppings carts full of food? A ton of people I have seen at the store the past few days looked like they were preparing to go down in the cellar for the next 2 months

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shite's ridiculous. People are hoarding the most basic food supplies like they will be in the storm shelter for the rest of the year. Campbell's soup cleaned off the shelves, rice, flour, coffee, powdered milk, dried beans and peas???? WTF? Jeez this is not the Great Depression all over again.

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I assume most people know this

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They don't. These morons actually think they're helping keep a business open by purchasing gift cards.