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Online ordering: the key to survival for Chinatown and SGV restaurants
Even before COVID-19 wreaked economic havoc on restaurants across the country, the pandemic was hurting Chinese restaurants. Unfounded fear and outright racism had drastically reduced business.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readEven before COVID-19 wreaked economic havoc on restaurants across the country, the pandemic was hurting Chinese restaurants. Unfounded fear and outright racism had drastically reduced business. Then these restaurants were forced to close when the shelter-in-place order was announced. For KCRW, Phoenix Tso reported on how restaurants in Chinatown and the San Gabriel Valley are faring now that doors are once again open. Read her deep dive into the post-pandemic plan for Asian restaurants in those neighborhoods.
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- 7:18Coming out: A brief history of the queer hospitality industry
- 17:51Reservations and digital menus: restaurants adapt to the new normal
- 30:47Online ordering: the key to survival for Chinatown and SGV restaurantsYou’re reading this
- 37:52Keeping it together between two slices of bread
- 46:10Chef Susan Feniger: ‘I never spent this much time at home in my whole adult life’
The full episode
4 of 6Queer hospitality, restaurant reopenings, sandwiches- 0:00Cuties coffee shop: Making sense of the world and finding community
- 7:18Coming out: A brief history of the queer hospitality industry
- 17:51Reservations and digital menus: restaurants adapt to the new normal
- 30:47Online ordering: the key to survival for Chinatown and SGV restaurantsYou’re reading this
- 37:52Keeping it together between two slices of bread
- 46:10Chef Susan Feniger: ‘I never spent this much time at home in my whole adult life’