NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Eating places are white-hot in Newport Seaside proper now, in line with a number of within the know, together with Steve Rosansky, president and CEO of the Newport Seaside Chamber of Commerce.
He informed Patch that he is been listening to implausible information from native eating places.
“I’ve heard type high-end, white-tablecloth kind locations, and even under that, that all of them appear to be doing very nicely,” he mentioned. “A few of them are reporting document gross sales, even over pre-pandemic ranges. Those that have been capable of do outside seating appear to have fared the very best. Now that they’ve capability to seat indoors and open air, their occupancy doubled or greater than doubled.”
He attributed this to a wide range of components, together with the pent-up demand to eat out and be social after being cooped up for the final yr and a half. Additionally, people in Newport Seaside have a “lot of discretionary cash to spend” as a result of they have not gotten again into touring but and might not be shopping for new garments as a result of so many are nonetheless working from dwelling, he added.
