SAN FRANCISCO, June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- For
restaurants, it's been a year of endless pivots, dogged
determination, and creative problem solving. To help shine a
spotlight on the unique challenges that restaurants have faced
since the pandemic turned their industry upside down, OpenTable,
the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations,
launched a new video series called "Restaurants on the
Rebound."
OpenTable's New Video Series Shares How Four Restaurants Pivoted,
Got Creative and Bounced Back Against All Odds
OpenTable's new video series Restaurants on the Rebound
documents a year like no other in the hospitality industry and
follows the inspiring, heartfelt journeys of four restaurants as
they chart their pandemic survival and prepare to get back to
business. These are the pandemic stories — creative, inspiring, and
heartfelt:
50Kitchen -
Boston, MA: Chef Anthony
Caldwell had barely finished celebrating the grand opening of his
Dorchester restaurant 50Kitchen
when COVID-19 caused a nationwide lockdown. But Caldwell wasn't
going to let a pandemic slow him down — he had already overcome a
difficult childhood, addiction, and incarceration to get to this
point. Watch how this chef's sense of hope and commitment to
helping others kept him going, despite the odds, HERE.
China Live -
San Francisco, CA: At San
Francisco Chinese food emporium China Live, owners George and Cindy Chen not only pivoted
throughout the pandemic with ghost kitchens, retail offerings, and
new outdoor space, but they also stood as a bastion of strength for
SF's iconic Chinatown community as it battles the rise of Asian
hate crimes. Watch how one of San
Francisco's most beloved Chinese restaurants stood strong
through the pandemic and Asian hate HERE.
L'oca D'oro -
Austin, TX: Instead of
reopening, Italian neighborhood gem L'oca D'oro put its kitchen to
work feeding millions of meals to the city's food insecure, and
when the historic Texas winter
storm struck, the restaurant kept the food flowing. Watch how
this Austin restaurant showed its
community love through the pandemic HERE.
Pink Dinghy -
Virginia Beach, VA: The Pink
Dinghy has quickly become a beloved community spot — but the
restaurant's road to opening was far from easy. Owner Stephanie Dietz had to navigate all the usual
headaches of opening a business, when a car crashed into the
restaurant, she lost her business partner, and the pandemic hit.
Watch how this Virginia Beach
team banded together to bring this brightly colored dream
restaurant to life HERE.
To learn more about OpenTable's Restaurants on the
Rebound series, please go here. Since April 2020, OpenTable has helped seat more than
135MM diners at no cost to its restaurants and remains committed to
helping restaurants recover. To learn how to support restaurants
near you, go here.
About OpenTable:
OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings
Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), powers reservations for the hospitality
industry. OpenTable's software seats more than 1 billion people per
year and helps more than 60,000 restaurants, bars, wineries and
other venues attract guests, manage capacity, improve operations
and maximize revenue.
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