Gabrielle Hamilton had a good op-ed about this topic as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-restaurant-covid.html https://www.nytime

Gabrielle Hamilton had a good op-ed about this topic as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-restaurant-covid.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-re... As Hamilton notes, even before coronavirus restaurants were facing increasingly tough financial situations. I agree in principle that restaurants should raise their prices. There's really no other option. But it's a tough pill to swallow. Especially with the stagnation of wages. People aren't making more money and yet everything is getting more expensive. Of course if we raise minimum wage, this also hurts restaurants because they rely on cheap labor to keep their already thin margins. Unfortunately it appears that delivery is part of the solution. Restaurants can do more volume with fewer staff and smaller spaces with a proper delivery presence. But the prospect of turning a full fledged restaurant experience into eating another meal from a plastic container just makes me sad. It's not the same.