
Many restaurants have provided incentives for customers to purchase food by offering discounts to menu items and/or free delivery as a way to adapt to COVID-19 restrictions.
These restrictions include Gov. Gary Herbert's announcement on March 17 that all Utah restaurants would suspend dine-in operations.
Here's what some chain restaurants are offering customers.
Burger King
Cafe Rio
Chipotle
Krispy Kreme
Olive Garden
Little Caesars
Subway
Taco Bell
Wendy’s
7-Eleven
The websites curbsideutah.com
Gov. Herbert has encouraged Utahns to continue to support local businesses by ordering food from restaurants.
'In making these decisions, we still strongly recommend that Utahns buy local, eat local and support local businesses at this time, in whatever way they can, and within these guidelines. Our local restaurants are great sources of nutritious, secure and delicious meals,' he said in a tweet.
Melva Sine, CEO of the Utah Restaurant Association, has seen first hand the aftermath COVID-19 is having on restaurants.
'Everybody is struggling, and everybody is working very, very diligently to survive and be able to move on to the next level and get past this,' Sine said.
Sine added that most restaurants have had to cut back on employees in order to keep their businesses running. 'It's been a major restructuring,' she said.
Despite the difficulties, Sine complimented those in the restaurant industry, saying they have adapted quickly and implemented measures to ensure the safety of their customers.
'They've enhanced their safety procedures for handwashing and sanitizing and doing all of those things to make sure that they're wiping down surfaces — even more often than what they're required to do — just to make sure that they can assure the public that they're taking every possible precaution to make sure that people can enjoy a restaurant meal,' she said.