Something like 20% of restaurants that were open in February are now permanently closed. It might be even a little more than that — I don’t have the data right

Something like 20% of restaurants that were open in February are now permanently closed. It might be even a little more than that — I don’t have the data right in front of me. Extend that timeline to next fall, as in the article, and probably almost all the non-chain restaurants would be done for. Edit: it’s worse than I thought. Data from Yelp suggest about half of restaurants may be permanently closed. I have no idea how that breaks down into national and regional chains vs independently owned restaurants, however. See https://www.eater.com/2020/6/26/21304219/over-50-percent-of-yelp-restaurants-have-closed-permanently https://www.eater.com/2020/6/26/21304219/over-50-percent-of-...