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“The reality is we are facing an incredible period of economic depression,” Krissy Lefebvre, who co-owns the restaurant with husband and chef Ludo Lefebvre, said in an email to CNN.
Trois Mec, which opened in 2013, was an intimate 28-seat restaurant with an open kitchen, where Chef Ludo was known for making culinary masterpieces in front of his customers.
“Lefebvre works an ecstatic improvisational groove similar to what you might find from the best Parisian bistronomy chefs, erasing the hierarchy of ingredients,” Gold wrote. “You don’t come to eat anything specific here. You come to taste what Lefebvre is cooking.”
Krissy Lefebvre said she and her husband will continue to help Jose Andres, another luminary chef, by preparing meals for the poor inside the Trois Mec space.
“The restaurant industry now reflects the highest total business closures, recently surpassing retail,” Yelp said. As of July 10, Yelp found 26,160 total restaurant closures, an increase of 2,179 since June 15.
Lancaster said he fears five more of his establishments will close by January.
“It’s almost too overwhelming for me to actually you know, lay in bed at night and process without breaking down, just from the sheer weight of it, ” Lancaster told CNN.
Still, he believes it’s dangerous to eat indoors.
“Having people in bars and restaurants, is not safe,” Lancaster said. “If masks are the key to everything, how can we let people inside of the space to take your mask off to eat and drink? The logic behind that makes no sense.”
Lancaster adds most of his restaurants have little space for outside dining and they are on life support with a Covid-19 vaccine not available soon.
“If we talk about 2021 being our best case scenario, I don’t know how we’re expected to survive,” Lancaster said. “If you were to drive down Sunset Blvd. and think four out of five of these restaurants won’t be there. That collateral damage is incomprehensible.”
Lancaster, the Lefebvres and other restaurant owners are calling on Congress to pass a $120 billion relief bill meant to keep eateries and bar open, and their workers employed.
“The restaurant industry is in a true crisis,” Krissy Lefebvre said, “and without proper support from the federal government, it will become a fond memory, life pre-Covid and life post-Covid.”
CNN’s Jennifer Selva, Jay Croft, Saba Hamedy and Susannah Cullinane contributed to this report
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