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This doesn't line up with what I'm seeing locally at all. Almost immediately after restaurants were allowed to have dine-in customers, I started to see them pac
by RussianCow 6y ago
This doesn't line up with what I'm seeing locally at all. Almost immediately after restaurants were allowed to have dine-in customers, I started to see them packed any time I came to pick up food. Obviously there still aren't as many people dining out as before the pandemic, but most people I know couldn't wait to start going out on a regular basis again.
With that said, I do think food delivery and pickup will be more popular in general after the pandemic, but I highly doubt it will ever be as commonly done as it is now.
For the record, I'm in the US; I can't speak for other countries. Notably, I was in London about a year and a half ago, takeaway and delivery already seemed to be extremely commons way to dine.
- Jeremy1026 6y agoI'd be those people just needed to get out of the house. But over the long run will revert back to their new normal of ordering in.
- RussianCow 6y agoI don't think so. We're not talking about a week-long or even month-long surge that's starting to fade; it's been like this since the dine-in ban was lifted in early summer, and has only gotten worse now that the weather has turned. If this generalizes to the rest of the country (which is obviously not a given, but I think rather likely), we'll be back to pre-pandemic levels of dining as soon as restrictions are lifted. Also, delivery is only a replacement for dining out if your reason for going out is the food/drink. If, on the other hand, you dine out for the social aspect, then delivery is never going to be a replacement for you. My hunch tells me that the latter is more common, but I'm not as confident in that prediction.