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The Luxury of Eating at Restaurants

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Title (Dublin Core)

The Luxury of Eating at Restaurants

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Description (Dublin Core)

My wife and I really like going out to eat at the local restaurants. Of course, when the pandemic first hit the Los Angeles area everything closed due to the stay at home order that was issued in Los Angeles county. Naturally we believed that this would just be a temporary situation and looked forward to the day that the order would be lifted, and we could go back to our regular way of life. I decided to use the time sequestered at home productively and to resume my education and I enrolled in Arizona State University to finish my degree while my wife was able to continue working remotely. Ten months later we were able to begin the long journey that was the return to “normal” as the stay at home order was lifted. Much to our surprise, many of the small restaurants that we like to frequent were now closed, out of business due to their loss of clientele and the fact that many were only staying open on a month to month basis when operating regularly. It is a sad thing that the collateral damage from this Covid virus impacted small businesses all over the world in a manner that would not allow them to continue to stay open. Even now, a year after the end of the stay at home order, mandates and medical rules are still limiting the amount of people that are able to enjoy eating good food at their local eateries and it is affecting those businesses that are struggling to continue to provide services.

I recorded the interior of one of our favorite restaurants one morning as my wife and I went out to breakfast, but there were still plenty of empty tables.

Date (Dublin Core)

February 2, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Siegfried Hilke

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Siegfried Hilke

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

audio recording
text story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Food & Drink
English Business & Industry

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

restaurant
Los Angles
California
small business
lockdown
audio
breakfast

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Sensory history
loss of flavor

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/03/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/16/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on February 3, 2022 by Siegfried Hilke using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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