Episode 171: Consumers Themselves Pose Biggest Challenge to Restaurant Reopenings

A number of states including New York and Kentucky went to the polls this week for their primary elections. We’ll discuss the winners and losers and what it all means - if anything - for November. And states across the country are reacting to what’s happening - or in their opinion not happening - at OSHA with regard to worker protections and are empowering their state agencies to fill the void. We’ll discuss what that could mean for operators. And a definitive new study was released by a team of Harvard researchers that analyzes the role of the industry in the recession, the impacts of federal stimulus dollars and what the long path to recovery may look like. We’ll have those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.