Restaurants were among the earliest and hardest-hit sectors in the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With most dubbed “essential services,” many chose to replace their china and silverware with plastic clamshells.
Delivery companies like Uber Eats, DoorDash and GrubHub began to cash in on a surge in takeout meals, as the pandemic forced Georgia restaurants to stop dine-in services for some time.
Now with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly updating its face mask guidelines and forgoing a masks for those who are fully vaccinated, more restaurants are filling up tables and returning to pre-pandemic service. That means the boom in delivery is about to take a hit.
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