{"id":4788,"date":"2021-02-19T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2021-02-18T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:16:41","slug":"during-year-of-coronavirus-local-businesses-forced-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/during-year-of-coronavirus-local-businesses-forced-to-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"During Year of Coronavirus, Local Businesses Forced to Adapt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new normal is emerging for small businesses, even as the trajectory of COVID-19 remains unclear. Small businesses face a landscape forever altered as the first wave of economic disruption from the pandemic settles. To get a sense of how this is impacting our local businesses, the <em>Dealer<\/em> talked to several of Hyde Park\u2019s best to see how they\u2019re adapting to the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>For Bruce\u2019s Barbershop, and Cassy\u2019s Chum Bucket, the pandemic was the perfect opportunity to expand. \u201cWe started using this thing called uh, Doordash,\u201d Cassy (of the Chum Bucket) said. \u201cSomeone basically goes and drops off our food at some poor schmuck\u2019s door, and they run out like a little piggy to get the slop.\u201d For Bruce, expanding services became key to surviving in the razor-thin pandemic economy. \u201cYeah, we\u2019ve started offering a \u2018downstairs\u2019 trim &#8212; it\u2019s become very, very popular.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For other businesses, just adapting their regular operations to a pandemic-world took an enormous amount of effort. In an attempt to provide contactless payment options, formerly cash-only Hyde Park staple Valois has started accepting certificates of deposits (CDs). <\/p>\n<p>Still others have just given up entirely. The <em>Dealer<\/em> mourns the loss of the Revival Theater, which went out of business two weeks ago. Theater director Hohn Hoops said in statement that the lack of revenue from Off-Off shows, and an excessive hiring of Metcalf interns from the University of Chicago, contributed to the theater\u2019s demise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small businesses face a landscape forever altered as the first wave of economic disruption from the pandemic settles. To get a sense of how this is impacting our local businesses, the Dealer talked to several of Hyde Park\u2019s best to see how they\u2019re adapting to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-special-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}