Restaurants in Houston are still without power after Hurricane Beryl hit the city. Spots like Jūn and Bludorn don't know when they'll reopen.
Houstonestablishments lost power because of the Category 1 storm, which hit Houston on Monday and resulted in at least nine deaths in the United States. Some of those restaurants have since had their power restored, part of the 1 million homes and businesses that have seen their power turned back on, Jason Ryan, the executive vice president of CenterPoint Energy, the city’s largest utility,the Associated Press on Thursday.
Mayor Whitmire has spoken with CenterPoint’s CEO & made it clear that the energy company needs to do a better job restoring power and communicating with the hundreds of thousands of customers who lost electricity due to the widespread power outage caused byFor some restaurants, the hit from Beryl is being compounded by the fact that a derecho that came through Houston in May also resulted in shutdowns.
While the restaurants—many of them small businesses—will be adversely affected by a week of lost revenue, so will some of the restaurants’ employees. As hourly workers, they can lose about a quarter of their monthly income from a week-long closure, the restaurant spokesperson told) are working to get money to these employees, so that they can pay for things like groceries, gas, bills, and more. After the May derecho, the groupmore than $329,000 to some 370 people in the industry.
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