New Jersey reopens indoor dining; Allendale Bar & Grill and Mahwah Bar & Grill owner Craig Kunisch speaks out.
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Peetsd PETE, restaurants in New
Jersey, getting the green light
to reap he reopen Phi driveway
with some restrictions.
Is this if you have to save
struggling businesses,
the owner of Allen, Dale BAR and
grill, and bar and grill in New
Jersey
Greg? Thank you so much for
being here,
thanks for having me
PETE sixteen days to flatten the
curve,
one hundred and fifty days,
at least here we are with twenty five percent.
Can you gave your business going
forward going into the winter
where you cant just rely on
outdoor dining?
Is this good enough?
Twenty five percent is a step in the right
direction and thats all we have
been pleading for the past
couple of months to make a step.
We have that step going forward.
We cant stand still now got to
keep that forward. Progress
going
PETE New Jersey looks great
compared to New York City, where
De Blasio said June of twenty twenty one its
lunacy. What theyre talking
about with indoor dining here
its a step in the right
direction?
Do you have hope that as the
weather gets colder, it will go
to fifty seventy five percent
businesses? You cant make money
im no expert, but twenty five percent is
probably not going to get it
done.
Twenty five percent doesnt work from a
sustainability and survival
standpoint.
You know we you have your overh
and staff. We have to bring in
darn near full staff, even at twenty five percent
to kind of get it done.
I cant go to my bank and say:
can I send you twenty five percent of my
mortgage?
Can I pay twenty five percent of my utilities?
Can I send twenty five percent of my property
tax,
so we all need to be at
one hundred percent.
There is no doubt about it in
order to be around for a long
time,
our two places have been blessed
with incredibly supportive
community where we have been
rocking the outdoors and have
the outdoor space.
There are so many restaurateurs
that didnt have that
opportunity that are struggling
to stay afloat
now that they are going inside
again its that good initial
first step but are kind of
scream now is to just keep news
mind to Governor Murphy. Dont
take your eye off of us and we
are going to get this done.
We are going to do it really
really well,
we are going to do it safely.
There is so much that we do as
operators to ensure our guests
safety. We will prove that we can
do that at twenty five percent.
We ask that when the data comes
back and says this is going
great, then lets look at fifty
lets. Look at seventy five and lets
sooner or later get back to
where we need to be for the long
term,
not just to get through the
winter, but for survival forever.
Pete amen.
We have been in business
since one thousand nine hundred and thirty five.
We have got to keep this thing
going.
You say data as it per saints
to one hundred percent.
I have been to walmarts and
Kmarts and Lowes in New Jersey.
They are open one hundred percent
dolls. The data say that that was
okay for the last six months
does it feel like they are
picking winners and losers. Here
I dont know where all of the
decision making you know energy
is coming from.
The only thing that we can do is
kind of take what we are given
and do our best with it.
So right now we were told twenty five percent
and we have been as the New
Jersey, restaurant Hospitality
Association has been working
tremendously hard nonstop go,
go, go on getting a step
forward.
We just need a step forward.
We have that step forward coming
Friday,
but we cant stop moving
PETE, absolutely.
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