Don’t wait for tourism return to open restaurants here
First off, I’m not thinking about Christmas. I’m thinking about our restaurant owners that operate several locations but are not reopening any of them until the tourists return.
Surely if you own four restaurants, you can afford to open at least one of them for part of the week for us kamaaina.
This would help our local workforce to at least partially get off of unemployment, and would increase the number of businesses reopening from the current paltry 33 percent as stated by Mayor Victorino.
My list includes all of you owners that are not reopening any of your locations. Us kamaaina also like to eat out, and if you don’t want my support now don’t expect it when the tourists return.
Fred Van Osten
Lahaina