How grab-and-go food chains are adjusting to coronavirus reality

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Restaurants devoted to quick bites and drinks are reconfiguring their businesses to limit traffic in tight quarters, while maintaining social distancing

) have been forced to rethink how to serve customers quickly while keeping staffers safe and still make enough money to operate.

But it is not clear that customers will be prepared to wait in long socially distanced queues outside, even to get one of Greggs’ popular vegan sausage rolls, which had helped fuel an 80% rise in Gregg’s share price before the crisis hit. That could lead restaurants to raise some menu prices, said Alex Susskind, a professor at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.

In China, delivery and mobile ordering at Starbucks made up 15% or all orders in January when the crisis was spreading. Mobile orders peaked at 80% in February but remained at 27% in late March, according to a McKinsey & Co report on May 19.

 

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