Las Vegas bar owner saw plenty of turmoil during pandemic
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Jonathan Fine's business has been in turmoil since the pandemic hit Las Vegas. Fine is the founder of Fine Entertainment, which owns Pkwy Tavern, AmeriCAN, Rockhouse, and PBR Rock Bar. He opened the fifth PKwy tavern this month near the M Resort and plans to open the sixth in the Spring Valley area in late September. The latter is in former home of Ricardo's, a decades-old Mexican restaurant that closed after the Pandemic.
The mask mandate was lifted before this new wave of COVID. Bar owner didn't let his employees take their masks off. He thinks it makes the customer feel safer.
The Paycheck Protection Program was a lifeline for the company. The company had about $3.5 million in current payables the day it shut down. They are still paying it off. They gave away food and beer to staff. A lot of beer was wasted. If the government is going to shut everything down, the staff will be the first to get in line for unemployment.
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Las Vegas bar owner saw plenty of turmoil during pandemic. The industry has recovered on the Strip, but off the strip it's not hitting pre-pandemic numbers. The local places are not yet hitting the numbers they were pre the pandemics.
Before the pandemic, the brand had parties where you would sit with a stranger and talk to them. Now, they haven't been able to do that.
There's no reason for big group events to come back. People can't do the bowling, they can’t do darts.
The games that were banned during the pandemic have not come back to Las Vegas bars yet. The city has come out of the crisis much better than before. The bar owner was a victim of recession 18 months ago. He is amazed that Las Las Vegans are resilient. They bounced back from the Great Recession.
There were six shots and a pause for 30 seconds during the shooting. His wife and two friends had to leave the concert because of the chaos. They piled a woman with her baby, a 1-year-old baby and her husband in the car.
