You could be right. A number of businesses are using the pandemic as cover.

Wow. Your disdain for the working class shows our lack of class.

Everyone who isn’t independently wealthy relies on their job to survive. That statement is true whether they work as a salaried management position or an hourly food service job.

If you’re relying on Pizza Rev for your livelihood, and you weren’t a manager working FT with benefits…ouch.

And we’ll all concerned for employees who are not earning their usual income. I would have guessed that goes without saying.

Pizza Studio had great pizza. I liked it, despite it not being baked in a wood-fed oven. Pizza Studio didn’t make it at MOA. A Pizza Rev not too far from my house has also closed in the past couple of years.

I suspect that the demand for “fast casual” pizza, or whatever it is called, isn’t as great as restaurateurs thought years ago. It’s not going extinct, but the Pizza Studios and Revs of the world didn’t quite proliferate like Subway did.

I wouldn’t dismiss COVID-mania as a reason your Pizza Revs closed, Scott, but I suspect the three that closed weren’t making much money before St. Patrick’s Day, and couldn’t afford to lose a lot since then before throwing in the towel.

The longer restaurants are forced to tap dance and accommodate fewer people with added cleaning and sanitation measures, the more we’ll see fall.

I assume the early outs are restaurants that were on the brink before COVID-mania. The last Fuddruckers in Minnesota closed for good on March 21, less than a week after the state shut down their dining rooms. No chance it was a victim of COVID, it was simply hanging on by a thread.

I have to think circumstances are similar for those that shut it down within three months of St. Patrick’s Day.

Let’s all Vegas again, soon. Please!