Welcome to the Dave Chang show. I wish we were doing this under a normal circumstances, but considering the coronavirus

COVID-19 epidemic that's currently engulfing the world. I thought it was appropriate that we talk about this and how it's affecting the restaurant industry

We'll get back to normal programming soon, but we wanted to have this podcast to talk about

What's been happening? I'm currently hold up with my family and you have Chris Ying

in

California and you have Isaac Lee in California as well and

We're doing this podcast by computer. I don't even know that you could do these things

But

Here we are and I think this is going to be the new norm and I've tried to record this podcast by myself

Honestly probably 50 times this week and it's been so difficult and emotional for me

I needed the help of some friends. So thanks for joining me guys

I don't know where to begin other than

This is

unequivocally the worst thing that's happened and could happen to

The world at large obviously, but as the economy has been ground to a standstill

I think the service industry slash hospitality world

As born the brunt of this and I have a hard time wrapping my head around just how bad things are going to be

I think this is going to be

Something that fundamentally alters the landscape of what restaurants are going to be when we look back on it and I say that because I think that

a incredibly high rate of restaurants will never open up again and

I want to keep this

Podcasts pretty focused about where we need to go instead of

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