International celebrity chef Daniel Boulud said the government was 'cowardly and irrational' in its handling of the COVID crisis. 'It was scary, very scary,' he told Fox News Digital.
He also operates trophy eateries in Miami, Singapore and Dubai, among other glitzy international locations.
The city is still feeling the impact: The number of people eating out in New York City this summer was down 38 percent compared with the same time in 2019, according to data from restaurant reservation service OpenTable. The government response to events "was not rational," said Boulud. "It absolutely could have been handled better." introduced a $26.8 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund in 2021 to aid the struggling industry.
Daniel Boulud's Midtown Manhattan restaurant Le Pavillon opened in May 2021 next to Grand Central Terminal, while offering amazing views of the NYC landmark Chrysler Building. Boulud was able to rely on that money, and his own survival instinct, to get through the pandemic. He even opened a glamorous new Midtown Manhattan eatery, Le Pavillon, in May 2021.
The industry lost $240 billion in sales in 2020 alone, and still has not recovered the 560,000 jobs lost, according to the National Restaurant Association.to those restaurants that were denied aid by the federal relief fund. So far, that idea has fallen on deaf ears. It proved a huge success. Café Boulud at Blantyre is currently being remodeled and will reopen as a full-time restaurant in the near future. "We had some real scares. Whatever Ideas we had to save our business, we did. To-go business, shipping food, cooking classes — that all kept us busy."
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