Impact and Aftermath of COVID-19 in the Food and Restaurant Sector
A pandemic that’s inexplicably huge. A once in a generation occurrence, that has brought the world to its knees. COVID-19, or the coronavirus, as we are calling it, has rendered even the most developed economies powerless. Each and every sector of almost every country has been severely affected, but the quickest impact perhaps, has been on the food and restaurant sector. In the initial stages only, many governments had ordered closing down the restaurants and bars to contain the spread of this virus. However, the impact was just not confined to restaurants only, but a number of other related areas like liquor, wine, and food production, shipping and farming. The pace at which the food & beverage sector was growing was superb. Almost every offline store had an online presence for food delivery to people, apart from a strong focus on ambience at their physical spaces too. While a major chunk of these restaurants had a food delivery app of their own,...