Valley restaurants continue to adjust one month after dine-in service stopped

Restaurants offering takeout and delivery have been the new norm over the last month but that's not come without many restaurants taking a major hit financially.
"About 50 percent of all restaurants have temporarily closed and about 3 percent have indicated they're closed permanently," says Ohio restaurant Association CEO John Barker.
According to a survey done by the Ohio Restaurant Association sales in some restaurants is down upwards of 90 percent from this time last year and the closing of many restaurants has left around 300 thousand people filing for unemployment. Those restaurants that remain open have had to come up with creative ways to reinvent the restaurant industry.
"We have carry out, we have a special menu. We have like a family package, we have like 12 different family packages for under 40 dollars and it feeds 6 people," says Station Square Ristorante's Owner Ottavio Musumeci.
While all restaurants have had to make adjustments, restaurants like the Korner Restaurant here in North Jackson usually bring in a large senior citizen crowd, they've had to make adjustments to make sure a very vulnerable part of the population remains safe while getting their food.
"Of course we limit it to 6 people in the building at one time, that they call their orders in, we designate a pickup time, and if they call we will run the food out to the car for them," says The Korner Restaurant's Owner and Operator Rob Proverbs.
The next step for restaurants is waiting for the word that they can resume dine-in service, something that many that I spoke with have been prepping for since the order took place a month ago.