NYC Hospitality Alliance Executive Director Andrew Rigie calls Gov. Cuomo’s 10 p.m. curfew ‘absolutely devastating’ for businesses.
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Jedediah New York, Governor
Jedediah, New York, Governor
Andrew Cuomo, spark backlash
after rolling out a slate of new
lockdown restrictions, including
a 1000 p, DOT M curfew on
restaurants, bars and gyms after
an uptick in cases,
Cuomo arguing quote. If you
look at where the cases are
coming from, if you do the
contact tracing, you will see
they are coming from
establishments where alcohol is
served. Gyms and indoor
gatherings at private homes,
the New York City Hospital pay,
tattle alliance, is sounding the
alarm executive director Andrew
Ridgy joins me now
Andrew welcome to the show.
So you see this 1000 p dot m
curfew being reinstated. I see
also on social media, fearing
that gyms could potentially be
closed in the near future.
You never know where this is
going to lead
talk about the impact of this
1000 p, DOT M curfew in particular,
though, and in particular on the
restaurant industry.
Good morning, its absolutely
devastating
small business owners have been
exhausting their personal
savings.
They have been trying to do.
Everything government has been
telling them to do to keep
people safe
and restaurants have been open
indoors and outdoors for months
around the city of New York and
the state, and we continue to see
infection rates go down until
recently
and we cant continue to have
government shut us down unless
they support us and our workers
its really a dire situation.
Jedediah, you see a lot of
images of outdoor dining.
We are now heading into the
winter.
You will thought be allowed to
have a lot of those
opportunities.
What are the concerns of these
industries and financially? What
are you hoping that the
government will provide in terms
of stimulus to these industries that have been hurt really badly,
that have been hurt really badly
during these lockdowns?
It gets cold here, as the
weather continues to drop its
not going to be feasible,
even outdoor dining itself,
wasnt a sole solution to save
the industry.
What we need frankly right now
is the federal government to
act.
There is bipartisan legislation
called the restaurants act which
will help these small business
owners pay their rent payroll
vendor expenses.
If we dont have support, then
we are going to shutter
more vacant store fronts,
more new Yorkers out of their
jobs.
There is still about one hundred and fifty thousand
people that worked at these
businesses before the pandemic
that still arent back to work.
There is bipartisan support.
It needs to get passed through
the Senate and President Trump
needs to sign it into law.
We need to help these Americans
these small business owners.
They are in such a tough
situation,
really think about it.
What is New York city?
What is our country without all
our great local restaurants,
Jedediah yeah, you know, New
York City is known for that
great food and dining thats.
What tourists come from.
I was walking around my old
neighborhood and saw so many of
my restaurants boarded up.
It was really devastating and
heart breaking so see,
im hoping there is turn around,
and businesses that have left
decide to come back to the city
if the opportunity arises and
they feel they can succeed.
Thank you, Andrew. Our heart
goes out to these people that.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-14.