restaurants are struggling right now, big time.

Yeah, it's definitely very bad. The National Restaurant Association predicts that in a three-month period,

five to seven million hospitality service workers, you know, cooks, dishwashers, servers will lose their jobs. A lot already have.

Caleb Pershing is a reporter for Eater. He's been covering the impacts of the pandemic on the restaurant industry.

So I asked him, how's the industry doing right now?

Most places that suddenly can't pay rent are unable to keep paying their employees.

Restaurants operate on, you know, a week to week, month to month.

Revenue and so every restaurant group has laid off its employees for the most part in the major cities that I've written about in San Francisco where I was Eaters editor for a while and in New York City where I'm based now. It's the right thing to do to get employees or now former employees on to unemployment insurance.

But yeah, it's obviously really, really painful.

For many restaurants, the only option to bring in money right now is take out and

delivery.

And that means relying on third-party delivery apps,

like Grubhub and DoorDash.

So, how is that going?

That's today on the show.

Plus, I talked to a high-end restaurant owner,

an app developer who's been forced to innovate in a realm

he never thought he'd have to enter,

the take-out world.

I'm Ariel Jim to people who are in a lot of pain right now, and it sucks.

Caleb Pershing. So restaurants are relying on delivery and pickup right now, and many of them, if not most of them,

are using these third party delivery apps.

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