Downtown York Restaurants & The Independent Restaurant Association
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York, PA
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Restaurants Need You!
• Keep supporting locally owned businesses. A dollar spent locally churns much more through a town’s economy. No, this doesn’t mean stop shopping at national chains or franchisee-owned stores. Yes, while some of those dollars flow to corporate headquarters, they too employee local citizens and make a continuing contribution to every town.
• On a night when you just don’t feel like going back out, do so anyway. The extra effort might just keep a locally owned business from shuttering its doors.
• While restaurants will always be busier — pandemic or not — on Friday and Saturday nights, remembers to visit on a Monday or Tuesday. It costs the same to turn on the lights and have employees working no matter what day of the week it is.
• Tip. Please. Even at a fast-food or quick-serve restaurant, the simple act of leaving a dollar or two can make a huge difference to an employee working hard for an hourly wage.
• Need stocking stuffers or gifts for family, friends, and co-workers? Buy gift cards. The business receives the money now and the recipient can use the gift at any time.
• Remember how stressed we all are. No, this is not an excuse for say, an inferior meal or lackluster customer service. But stop and think how hard it is to work all day in a hot restaurant kitchen while wearing a mask, the extra work involved in making sure — even more so than usual — that everything is cleaned and sanitized, and the pressure of making and packaging orders quickly when there are 20 cars waiting in a drive-thru line for hours on end.
Those of us battling every day to survive in the restaurant industry could not possibly thank our customers enough. We are forever indebted to them for helping us through this difficult and stressful time.
This is the life we have chosen, even while possessing the knowledge that the average profit margin in a restaurant is 3-5 percent. You can imagine how difficult that makes things even in the best of times.
We certainly are not in the best of times today. But restaurant owners are collectively enriched by our customers, who are showing the best of spirit … the best of caring … the best of humanity.
We ask you to keep it up.
Downtown York Restaurants & The Independent Restaurant Association