At least 3,150 in metropolitan Guadalajara. 90,000 in Mexico; and 110,000 in the United States.
These are the estimated totals of restaurants gone out of business due to Covid-19, counted between June and December. They were gleaned from business leaders, news organizations, the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Restaurantera y de Alimentos Condimentados (Canirac) and the (U.S.) National Restaurant Association.
Although some estimate that these figures reflect percentages as low as five percent of the total number of eateries, most closure totals are said to represent percentages in the mid-teens. The highest percentage is in the United States, where record keeping may be more exact: 17 percent, calculated by the National Restaurant Association, a lobbying group that has recently asked for government help. However, the Canirac percentage for Mexico is not far different, at 15 percent.
Of course, neither raw closures nor percentages include losses tangential to restaurant closings, such as buildings no longer rented, supplies no longer ordered and, of course, managers and waiters whose pockets do not fill up come la quincena (payday).
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