Make Your Pandemic Shopping at the Restaurant Supply Store
Restaurants and bars aren’t the only food-focused businesses suffering severe consequences from the coronavirus outage – all the suppliers they’ve relied on for ingredients and materials are also suffering. If you can, now is the perfect time to visit your local restaurant store.
Buying home furnishings from food service stores and restaurants has always had its advantages , but now it’s even better. Not only have restaurant stores selling pantry essentials in quarantine-level quantities, they’ve also not been hit as badly as larger grocery chains have in recent weeks. You can even win a package of industrial-sized toilet paper and some hand soap to go with a 25-pound bag of dried beans – and, as a bonus, your purchase will help a vital business get through the crisis. (It’s not like the global companies Krogers, Walmarts, and Costco are hurting business right now.)
If your local store is for members only, you’re in luck anyway. Some stores open their doors to the public during the COVID-19 crisis to keep as many people employed and fed as possible. Before you travel, check or call the store’s website to see if they are changing their opening hours or relaxing membership requirements during the crisis.