{"id":806252,"date":"2020-04-09T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381490"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:30:00","slug":"summit-county-restaurants-remain-open-for-takeout-despite-major-drop-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-county-restaurants-remain-open-for-takeout-despite-major-drop-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit County restaurants remain open for takeout despite major drop in business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frank Michaud and Teresa Toczek at Chimayo Grill in Dillon in October 2018.<\/strong>
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DILLON \u2014 Providing strictly takeout orders to locals isn\u2019t exactly a profitable business model for Summit County restaurants<\/a>. However, several restaurant owners have decided to continue serving to-go food<\/a> to keep kitchen employees working, pay for expenses like utilities and maintain some sense of \u201cnormalcy\u201d for locals.<\/p>\n

TJ Messerschmitt, owner of Fatty\u2019s Pizzeria<\/a><\/i> in Breckenridge, said he has two reasons to continue takeout operations:<\/p>\n

\u201cA: We have the ability to do it. It\u2019s a nice service to the local community here that\u2019s been taking care of us for so many years,\u201d Messerschmitt said. \u201cB: We have kitchen people who \u2026 don\u2019t have the ability to apply for unemployment, so we\u2019re still getting them hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messerschmitt said the money brought in from takeout business is \u201cjust enough\u201d to help pay for utilities and kitchen staff, which he said amounts to four or five rotating employees. <\/p>\n

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