New York City restaurateurs are concocting novel ways to drum up business during the holidays, even as a looming COVID-19 lockdown threatens to shutter their venues citywide for the second time this year.
The Tao Group — which was forced to close many of its high-profile hangouts this spring because of the pandemic — is now offering “virtual holiday parties” after Mayor de Blasio warned last week that another lockdown is likely to slam restaurants “within the next week or two.”
That means live, private cooking classes online not only for easy, no-fuss dishes like Tao’s lobster guacamole but also more complicated creations like chicken parmigiana and homemade pasta. There’s even a fortune-cookie baking class, said TAO Group partner Paul Goldstein, who oversees the virtual program.
“One family asked for a virtual cooking class to learn how to make a full Chinese meal, with a Q&A from the chef,” Goldstein said.
Yes, the tab was luxury-priced, at $5,500. Nevertheless, “the more people invited, the less the cost, as the cost of a virtual chef is the same for a family of five or 100 people,” Goldstein says.
Mask are mandatory to purchase products in stores in Most states and yet more people have covid now then before mask. However now that Biden will be in office globalism is back and mask will be mandatory.. king makers won and always will now.
12:31 Exactly, and we both know you can’t fix stupid and boy are 99% of the population stupid! They just threw all common sense out the window for what? To be more enslaved? I just don’t get why people love being slaves so much, being told what to do, how to do it when, where and why or get fined or jailed! Yeah real freedom there right slaves?