The business models of many retail businesses have been unsustainable for years and all it took was the pandemic to make that undeniably clear.
Pandemic and post-pandemic complications have caused many businesses to experience “inefficiencies, stress and fatigue,” making it “impossible to ignore” fundamental issues of viability, said chef and restaurateur Vivian Howard in “Foodie Fever Dreams Can’t Keep Restaurants Afloat” published last week in The New York Times.