How Some Atlanta Restaurants Have Pivoted During The Crisis

Michael Lennox, the founder of the company that owns Atlanta restaurants Ladybird, Golden Eagle and Muchacho, has started a nonprofit called ATL Family Meal to cook and deliver food to out-of-work employees from his and other participating restaurants.

Courtesy of ATL Family Meal

Gov. Brian Kemp says restaurants can begin opening for dining-in again this Monday.

Many restaurateurs in Atlanta say they’re not ready to take that risk, even though shelter-in-place orders have been especially tough on the industry.

In the past month, restaurants have temporarily closed. Others have switched to carry-out and delivery only. And a handful have figured out other ways to survive and adapt in the meantime, pivoting their businesses to work in the current world.