Food + Restaurants
Despite being able to resume dine-in service, it’s far from business as usual for Arizona restaurants. In April, we featured two Phoenix restaurants coping with COVID-19 in different ways. Four weeks later, we check in to see how they’re doing.
→ Gyms, Pools To Open As Gov. Ducey Continues To Relax Restrictions
→ Gyms, Pools To Open As Gov. Ducey Continues To Relax Restrictions
May. 12, 2020
While many Arizona business owners have been pushing to reopen, not everyone is so eager. A growing number of business owners are now voicing their concerns — and saying it’s simply too soon to reopen.
May. 11, 2020
A buffet chain with several restaurants in Arizona will likely close permanently, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. There are nine Arizona Sweet Tomatoes locations, including seven in the Phoenix metro area.
May. 8, 2020
Eddie Hantaf is one of the small restaurant owners who is about to reopen in light of the governor’s order. Hantaf has owned Hummus Express since 2012. Though Hantaf has managed to hang on without the help of federal stimulus dollars, he said it hasn’t been easy.
May. 8, 2020
After nearly two months of takeout and delivery only, many restaurants in Maricopa County will resume dine-in services next week. However, several important safety measures will still be in place.
May. 7, 2020
Restaurants can reopen next week in Arizona amid a downward trend in coronavirus cases and other measurements laid out by federal officials, Gov. Doug Ducey announced Monday. Ducey said restaurants can open next Monday and salons and barber shops can open this Friday.
→ Reopening Arizona Might Be A Long Road, Experts Warn
→ Reopening Arizona Might Be A Long Road, Experts Warn
May. 4, 2020
Restaurants could reopen for dine-in service later this month, but that doesn’t mean the experience will be normal. The Arizona Restaurant Association is working on creating guidelines for eating out, during the pandemic.
May. 1, 2020
The Arizona Restaurant Association created a grant program that is helping to ease the burden of those in the industry who are laid off.
Apr. 24, 2020
Steve Chucri, the president of the Arizona Restaurant Association, thinks it's possible that dining at restaurants could resume as early as next month. But he warns that transition won’t be as easy as flipping a switch.
Apr. 20, 2020
The Arizona Restaurant Association says there are more than 10,000 dining establishments in state. Some are still open, many have temporarily closed and others may never reopen. Over the next few months, KJZZ will follow two Phoenix restaurants through the crisis. Meet the local owners behind two different restaurants sharing the same mission: to serve their communities.
→ Arizona Small Restaurants To Gov. Ducey: We Need Your Help
→ Arizona Small Restaurants To Gov. Ducey: We Need Your Help
Apr. 9, 2020
Gov. Doug Ducey’s order to protect small businesses from eviction applied to businesses with fewer than 500 employees — like many of the local bars and restaurants that have been forced to close to dine-in guests. Still, many businesses face the challenge of securing revenue.
Apr. 7, 2020
How the Arizona Restaurant Association adapted "Arizona Restaurant Week" into "Arizona Takeout Weeks" as the coronavirus pandemic affects hundreds of local businesses.
Apr. 1, 2020
Under Gov. Ducey's executive order closing restaurants and bars to dine-in service, counties without confirmed coronavirus cases are exempt. That leaves one isolated county in eastern Arizona still open for business.
Mar. 28, 2020
Crescent Crown, the state's largest beer distributor, will donate a percentage of each sale to bar and restaurant employees who are out of work.
Mar. 28, 2020
Charleen Badman is the James Beard award-winning chef and owner of FnB in Scottsdale, and she’s been calling on local restaurateurs like her to show Congress just how much relief they really need.
Mar. 27, 2020
Tempe has joined a growing number of cities that are closing their bars and in-restaurant dining, due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Mar. 19, 2020
As Arizona’s three major cities closed in-dining restaurants and bars on Tuesday in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, a letter went out to healthcare providers from the Maricopa County Department of Public Health.
Mar. 18, 2020
A bill in the state Legislature would ban transgender teenagers from participating in girls' sports. It’s a bill sponsored by Rep. Nancy Barto (R-Phoenix) that’s particularly aimed at transgender women who are genetically identified as male.
Mar. 3, 2020
A decade ago, it looked like Chef Nephi Craig was on the verge of something big. He had left a burgeoning international career in the restaurant industry to come back home to Whiteriver, Arizona, a small town on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in eastern Arizona, where his people — the White Mountain Apaches — are from.
Jan. 24, 2020
Maybe it is time to do something a little different this Thanksgiving - like giving dinner a Southwestern twist.
Nov. 24, 2015
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