Empty chairs and tables are lined up outside a restaurant in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, Monday, March 9, 2020.

The Kitchen's Closed: Your Calls on NYC's Shuttered Bars and Restaurants

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 18, 2020

On Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered all bars and restaurants across New York closed by 8 p.m. Ariel Palitz, senior executive director of Nightlife For the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment, and Gregg Bishop, commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services, take food industry calls on this surreal moment, how you're getting by, and what the city can do to help.

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