Information on COVID-19 Guidelines for New Mexico Restaurants

New Mexico Restaurant Association What you need to know about COVID-19 and Your Restaurant www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Housekeeping Everyone is being muted. Please use the chat box to ask questions. Questions will be held until the end of the presentation. The presentation is being recorded and will be sent to members via the website nmrestaurants.org login. The slide deck will be available at the same time. If you are not a member email me. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Your Host Carol Wight CEO New Mexico Restaurant Association www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Introducing Antonia Roybal-Mack Antonia Roybal-Mack is the founder and a managing partner of Roybal-Mack & Cordova, PC. She is a dynamic powerhouse, and this is evident from her honors throughout her career as a civil lawyer. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Also Introducing Henrique Valdovinos Henrique has been in the hotel restaurant industry for the past 40 & some years, with extensive experience in both sides of the house Front and back. Henrique has been in Albuquerque since 1995 and He is presently the Director of Dietary and Nutrition Services at the Lovelace Women s Hospital. Henrique is also a certified instructor and proctor for the ServSafe program conducting all the Spanish classes for food service workers and managers. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Also Introducing Donna Hebert Donna Hebert has been in the nursing field almost 20 years. Donna was inducted into the National Honors Society of Nursing and graduated with honors. In 2018 Donna completed a second graduate degree in Family Nurse Practitioner. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Antonia Relief Efforts from the State of NM and the Federal Government www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Henrique Practical Things You can Do. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Donna Things you need to know about the virus. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

Restaurant Operation Issues to Consider: Does the revenue model for take-out only meet the expenses you need? Is it worth staying open with a negative revenue model? Consider the options of taking on additional debt? SBA Loans Interest only loan Discussion with Landlords and Bankers: operators should consider approaching landlords to reduce rents to somewhere around 6% of sales while operations are closed and for a 60-day period once we re-open. If doing some to go or delivery sales, offer to share a percentage with them. Landlords should be our partners, and they should have flexibility if they want to get their tenants back and paying rent. The ramp up will allow business to get their feet back on the ground. Contact your utility companies: you need a temporary time-out from payments. Ensure they will keep your power/gas/energy on. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

CLOSING PROCEDURES: Let staff take any food that cannot be frozen/saved. Remove all trash from the building/Cancel Dumpster Pickups. Take pourers off and tightly wrap open bottle tops of liquor in saran. Leave all exhaust fans running - In the unlikely event of a gas leak or pilot goes out during the closing, the fans will help to exhaust any hazardous gas from the building. Turn off any auto-payment processes. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

CLOSING PROCEDURES Cancel any scheduled deliveries. Examples would include: Broadline Distributer Knife sharpening EcoLab Produce Beer line cleaning Coca-Cola Linen Dumpster Cable/Direct TV Music Armored Car NuCo www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

CLOSING PROCEDURES Close Out your Month End Procedures. Alert your payroll company as to the layoffs and changes in payroll hourly and salary. Employee contact info and address updated. Alert your Health Insurance Company to the layoffs and the elimination of benefits. Set up restaurant email to be forwarded. Set up restaurant phone to be forwarded. Cancel all reservations. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

OPERATIONAL A final Inventory of all food and beverage should be taken. Prepare and transfer all perishable food. For a full list including Bar Closure List go to: www.nmrestaurants.org www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

STAFF ISSUES Send your staff to https://www.jobs.state.nm.us for Unemployment or over the phone at 1-877-664-6984 Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Will my unemployment insurance rate skyrocket? We have already had multiple conversations with the State Department of Labor, and they are well aware of this potential issue. We are putting together a government relief paper to present to the Governor. If you have ideas for relief from this situation please email me. www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848

OTHER CREATIVE IDEAS Be an alternative for Grocery Stores Sell your food raw, cook at home, cooked, in bulk curbside Do not over-charge Think trays of lasagna, taco trays, if you can get it, sell TP www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343- 9848

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THANK YOU! We will continue to serve you through this difficult time. Our prayers are with you. We will send all members a link to daily calls. Questions email: Carol Executive@nmrestaurants.org www.nmrestaurants.org 505-343-9848