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Patio heaters won’t cut it. What will it take for restaurants to survive winter?
novel coronavirus pandemic was a double-blow for Pazzo and other Stratford restaurants. Not only did the spring lockdown send sales plummeting as it did for the rest of the industry, it also forced the cancellation of the 2020 season for the town’s famous theatre festival, which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors in a normal year.And now the brief boost from patio dining and out-of-towners who still flocked to Stratford during the summer is waning, McCabe says.