Many members of California's San Gabriel Valley are immigrants who can recall memories of the SARS/H1N1, so they began wearing face masks, gloves, and stocking up on wipes and sanitizer in bulk (Via EaterLA)
. Due to stay-at-home orders and xenophobia occurring in other areas, Siu has found himself sticking close to home and ordering take-out to support his favorite mom-and-pop restaurants for the time being. “Big chain stores will be there tomorrow, but the local small businesses may not.”
Uniboil, a hot pot restaurant in Monterey Park that previously experienced a 75 percent drop in business due to COVID-19 concerns, has since reopened to offer customers hygienically packaged “cook at home” hot pot. The new takeout option comes with a mini stove pot, two 24 ounce drinks , a pound of meat, soup base, dipping sauces, and platefuls of veggies. They’ve even added a vegetarian option. Orders over $50 include two complimentary face masks.
Henry Hsu, the son of the owners of Taipei Bistro, and its head manager, has modernized his family’s restaurant to keep them in business, creating an online presence and signing up with delivery services like Ubereats, Doordash, Postmates, and GrubHub. “We have to do all this to offset the huge rise in food costs and the limited availability of inventory everywhere,” Hsu said. “Our business is able to stay afloat because of our loyal customers so we’re lucky.
Deserted Atlantic Times Square in Monterey Park on March 30, 2020, where most of the restaurants have closed.Hsu has implemented new sanitation rules for the restaurant: Customers are not allowed into the restaurant at all, and all pickups and money exchanges are done from 20 feet apart via a bench. The food and money is placed on a bench before the staff steps away for retrieval.
Go Cakes, a custom cakes company in San Marino, lost 100 percent of its wedding and event catering business since March. Although they did think of closing the store temporarily, they ended up switching to dessert delivery and pick up to provide something sweet in the community and hopefully stay in business. Owner Stephanie Fong has created a deliverable new series of cream puff series, which come in a box of six .
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