{"id":15028,"date":"2021-05-21T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/?p=15028"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:23:54","slug":"coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2021\/05\/coronavirus-industry-impact-2021-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Industry Impact 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Supermarket, Grocery, &amp; C-Store<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/t-CSG_Sales_Leads.aspx?utm_source=newsroom&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=inside_ad&amp;utm_content=Offthechain_Core_ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/Offthechain_Core_ad.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2022\u00a0Hy-Vee Inc<\/strong>.,<strong> The Stop &amp; Shop Supermarket Company LLC<\/strong>, and <strong>Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. announced the availability of COVID-19 vaccination for adolescents ages 12 to 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0The Kroger Co<\/strong>,<strong> Publix Super Markets Inc<\/strong>. and <strong>Trader Joe\u2019s Co<\/strong>. announced they will stop requiring masks for fully vaccinated customers and employees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. will no longer require masks for fully vaccinated customers and employees. Other retailers such as <strong>Costco Wholesale Corp<\/strong>., and <strong>CVS Health<\/strong> have said the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Restaurant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Chipotle Mexican Grill <\/strong>has removed the indoor masking requirement for vaccinated customers except for areas where it is required by law. The company will still require employees to wear masks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0IHOP Restaurant System<\/strong> is planning to launch their fast casual concept Flip\u2019d later this summer. The original launch was paused when the COVID-19 pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Panera Bread<\/strong> will be launching their next generation restaurant in November in Ballwin, MO. The restaurant will feature a double drive-thru with enhanced off-premise features and large dining area for customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Quiznos<\/strong> is looking to open 100 ghost kitchen locations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u00a0Starbucks Coffee<\/strong> has removed the masking requirement for vaccinated customers except for areas where it is required by law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. will no longer require masks for fully vaccinated customers and employees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,11],"class_list":["post-15028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}