In the ‘never say never category’, the US House of Representatives yesterday passed legislation replenishing the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) with an additional appropriation of $42 billion. But, before we get too excited about the extra round of funding to help restaurants recover from the coronavirus pandemic, realize that it still must pass the Senate,…
Read More »The monthly report, Survey of Consumers, by the University of Michigan was recently released and it showed that final consumer sentiment readings in March climbed to 84.9—a more than eight-point jump since February and the highest level reached in a year. The gains are believed to be largely the result of another wave of direct…
Read More »As we approach the end of 2020, (aka the year from Hell) we note a number of other order that some governors, mayors, county executive or other elected officials have mandated that we weren’t able to include elsewhere and thought it would be best to just run through them. In that vein, Philadelphia Mayor Jim…
Read More »It’s beginning to look like we’ll have to wait until the Georgia runoff elections are over and decided until we see any further movement on a new COVID relief bill out of Congress. Although momentum seemed to be building over the past week or so, control of the US Senate may be getting “in the…
Read More »More restrictions on restaurant operations are being mandated again as coronavirus infections continue to rise across the country. The latest we noted include San Francisco which will ban all indoor dining effective at midnight Friday in the face of a 250% surge in new COVID-19 cases since October 2. The order covers restaurants and food…
Read More »In other venues, similar court actions have taken place over the past couple of weeks. We advised you just over one month ago about the federal court in Pittsburgh invalidating a statewide shutdown and stay-at-home order by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf. Well, last Friday Governor Wolf made good on his promise to veto HB 2513,…
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