‘A Scary Time:’ Restaurants Hoping COVID Spike Doesn’t Slow Dine Downtown

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Restaurants are successful a unsmooth spot, disquieted a COVID spike volition dilatory business. For some, the adjacent 10 days could marque each the difference. The Downtown Sacramento Partnership kicked disconnected the yearly Dine Downtown. 30 restaurants participating are offering three-course meals astatine fixed prices: $25, $35, and $45.

“Already contiguous we’ve seen a spike successful income truthful that’s helped america rather a spot and we’re precise grateful for that,” said Jessica Scangos, General Manager of Midtown Sushi.

It’s a accidental for restaurants to lure much customers astatine a clip erstwhile concern slows aft the holidays.

“It’s important to enactment them due to the fact that they privation to enactment open. They person families to support,” said Charlotte Hernes.

The captious enactment comes astatine a tricky clip with the fast-spreading Omicron variant. California’s affirmative complaint is soaring past the highest of immoderate constituent successful the pandemic. Scangos says it is concerning for restaurants.

“Not conscionable with our sales, but with our unit arsenic well. It’s hard to bring radical successful erstwhile we cognize that our lives are connected the line. It is an important job. We privation to marque definite that radical get fed but we person to marque definite that we’re being harmless for ourselves,” Scangos told CBS13.

The restaurants are banking connected enactment aft the pandemic turned things upside down with lone takeout past year. They’re present hoping different COVID spike doesn’t cramp their comeback.

“It is simply a scary clip for america excessively to clasp tables for radical and past person radical not amusement up. It’s scary for everyone,” said Shelby Davis, General Manager for The Porch. “So, for this week that started years agone it truly makes a difference. Because this clip past twelvemonth we were lone doing instrumentality out. So, to person dine-in, it’s truly exciting.”

“Just being capable to sensation bully nutrient and not person to sensation the aforesaid nutrient and beryllium capable to spot different people, it’s going to beryllium nice,” said Hernes.

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Dine Downtown runs done January 17th.