Grumpy’s Restaurant & Grumpy’s Restaurant’S, CEO Daniel DeLeon featured infeatured in “Coronavirus: Jacksonville restaurants readying to re-open dining rooms” on Jacksonville.com
By Teresa Stepzinski Posted Apr 29, 2020 at 8:18 PM
Northeast Florida restaurants are getting ready to return to full dining room service after a month of relying on takeout and delivery due to crowd capacity and social distancing mandates to prevent exposure to COVID-19.
Jacksonville-area restaurants are ramping up to re-open their dining rooms after a month-long shutdown due to state and city social distancing and crowd capacity mandates imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Re-opening offers the hope of recouping some of the revenue lost during the shutdown.
GRUMPY’S RESTAURANT
Daniel DeLeon said Grumpy’s Restaurant “pretty much maintained the status quo” during the pandemic.
Except for transitioning fully to take-out and curbside pickup, the menu and business hours remained the same for the popular diner, 834 Kingsley Ave. in Orange Park, owned and operated by DeLeon and his wife, Morgan.
“Shutting down would be in the end a catastrophe. Because once you begin to restart, you essentially are opening a new restaurant. It’s the same steps you take when you open another location. I mean, you’re starting from ground zero,” he said.
Not only is that a lot of work, DeLeon said it just wasn’t an option for him. He wanted wanted to keep his employees on the job and his restaurant operating as much as possible.
“For us, it won’t take as long as other restaurants given that we’ve stayed open our full hours and we offered our whole menu,” DeLeon said.
It was a strategic decision to put them “in a better position when we win this war on COVID-19,” he said.
“I would say it would take a day or two given that we need to get a schedule out there. We’ve got to make sure we have the employees ready to return,”
DeLeon estimated about how long returning to dining room service will take. DeLeon said they plan to continue their curbside pickup and take-out options after the dining room re-opens.
“I think we’re ready. The people are ready. Our customers are ready,” DeLeon said. “We’re just excited to get back open.”
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