Restaurant foot traffic in CA dropped 30% in November due to omicron, Bay Area hit harder

that estimates visits to restaurants in San Francisco County dropped 42 percent from January 2020 to December 2021 -- the most of any other Bay Area county. Santa Clara County had a 38 percent drop, followed by Alameda County with a 33 percent drop. All three counties were impacted more than the state's overall decline last month, which was similar to November's percentage.

"This time, it's really bad," said Umberto Gibin, owner of Perbacco in San Francisco's financial district."I just stopped thinking what to do next because every time you make a plan you have to change it."'Moral responsibility': Some Bay Area restaurants temporarily closing for months over COVID surge

Restaurant visits across California fell 58 percent between January 2020 and April 2020 following widespread lockdowns. But by summer 2021, numbers had improved. Before November, the state was almost at pre-pandemic levels for estimated restaurant visits. Gibin got a glimpse of pre-pandemic life. His staff served close to 100 lunches per day in November before the surge, a record not seen since the pandemic began. In early fall, multiple counties in the Bay Area saw estimated restaurant visits at higher levels than in January 2020.Now, with omicron, Perbacco is lucky to serve half of what they did in early November."Today if we finish with 40, 45 lunches... maybe it's good," Gibin said.

Meanwhile in Japan: no vax-passports, no Karens, no problems, everything open. 🙂 nodrugs livedrugfree

Keep limiting people from going in to eat hope it drops more are we supposed to feel sorry ?

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