Putting COVID tests on the menu is one of the latest ways bars and restaurants are trying woo customers back.
Things seemed to be stabilizing last summer and fall until omicron hit. Now they've been limping along for the last month, "with half of our staff having gotten sick at one point, and the musicians getting sick and having to cancel shows."
At $15 a pop, he spent around $75,000 out of his own pocket to do this. But instead of going to the various locations, the entire shipment ended up coming to NYC. With the surge underway, Dorf started offering them to Manhattan patrons for free. He thinks that if the rapid tests were more widely available, more businesses would be doing what he did and offer them to customers.
"We got very excited by having someone else pay for it and actually even administer the tests in front of City Winery, but then when the system got overrun, sometime around December 20th or 21st, those companies went away,” Dorf said. “And they obviously started utilizing their testing for more vulnerable [areas] or other things rather than entertainment."
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