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Poll: More than 50 percent of Ohio restaurants could close within 9 months | NBC4 WCMH-TV
The Ohio Restaurant Association has released a new poll of its members showing the growing impact the coronavirus is having on the industry.
According to the latest numbers, 54 percent of restaurants believe they will have to close permanently in the next nine months if operating at their current capacity.
That number was a 23 perent increase from the week prior.
“Fifty-four percent of restaurants in the state of Ohio – that’s equivalent to 12,420 restaurants. So that’s a megawatt number,” said John Barker, president & CEO of the Ohio Restaurant Association. “That means we have 310,000 employees at risk. That would be over half the industry and this is the second biggest employer in the state.”
This just kills me.