A voluntary 10 percent surcharge is not going to keep New York's restaurants in business. The damage has already been done, writes chrisecrowley
Last week, the New York City Council passed a bill allowing restaurants to add a COVID surcharge. Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Last week, the New York City Council announced that it had passed a new bill allowing restaurants to add a COVID surcharge of 10 percent. The law will stay in place until 90 days after indoor dining is brought back to full capacity, but like so much else done over the past six months, it’s a gesture of help that does too little.
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It seems pretty clear that people are willing to help the places — and, in some cases, the people behind them — they love: Look at the money that was raised in two days by Punjabi Deli, a downtown-Manhattan favorite, or for B&H employee Mahmoud “Mike” Tarabih.
The damage has already been done, and a voluntary 10 percent surcharge is not going to keep restaurants in business.
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