After Covid Backlash, U.S. Neighborhoods Rally Behind Chinese Restaurants

Chinese restaurants across America are rebounding, thanks to local support and grassroots campaigns like #takeouthate.

Since reaching a peak closure rate of 60% on April 11, Chinese restaurants have reopened faster than any other category of independent restaurant, Bloomberg News reports.

That's great news for operators of Chinese eateries, many of whom experienced outright racism in the early days of the pandemic.

“I think the initial xenophobia and frankly racist reaction to Covid, Chinatown was the first neighborhood to be impacted as far back as early February,” Malcolm Yeung, executive director of San Francisco Chinatown Community Development Center, told Bloomberg.

“We got racist calls: Can I get a side of corona with that?” said Claudia Leo, marketing manager for Jing Fong in New York City.

Read the full story to find out how Chinese restaurants across the country are coping with the new normal of COVID-19.