Since late 2021, for example, Haitian restaurateurs have reported high costs for key ingredients like conch, whose wholesale price rose by about 50%. Lingering economic challenges such as the supply chain crisis have delayed the recovery for small businesses in New York, over 70% of which continued to report negative impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of 2021. “You have a different issue with supplies,” said Fred Hendy, owner of Rebel restaurant in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and First Republic in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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But as the city reopens and mask mandates are removed, many Haitian restaurateurs and retailers say they face lingering issues from the pandemic that are keeping them from coming back at full strength.
In the two years since the coronavirus pandemic shut down New York City, crippling in-person dining, Haitian businesses have surmounted much to keep their doors open, along with everyone else. “It has its slow moments, but pretty much we’ve held on through the pandemic.” “We’re just coming back to where we were 2019,” said White, a manager at the bakery. But this crowd, White said, was hopefully a harbinger of things to come. While slow at times, business at the bakery has begun to rebound two years into the pandemic.īusiness on that March morning was slower than the New Year holiday, when lines stretched out the bakery’s glass door for nearly a block, down Jamaica Avenue. NEW YORK - Marie White had a few minutes to speak, as she assisted customers at Le Bon Pain Bakery in Queens Village.
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