The snow and ice may have finally melted, but for local restaurants across the Triangle recent storms are anything but over.
“We had a similar situation last winter in January and February, and it took us seven months to recover so much loss,” said Cheetie Kumar, owner of popular neighborhood restaurant Ajja in Raleigh. “[This year] the first Saturday [of snowstorms], I think we did 20% of our normal revenue and normal volume.”
Anytime a restaurant unexpectedly closes can be disastrous financially. But two factors made the back-to-back winter storms even more catastrophic for businesses last month: They happened during January, already the slowest month of the year for many restaurants, and they hit over the weekend…