It’s Virginia Restaurant Takeout Week, and restaurants in the state are reeling due to lack of business following the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Gov. Ralph Northam has limited the number of people who can be inside a restaurant at one time to 10 people, so customers this week are encouraged to call ahead to their favorite restaurant and order out.
Starting Saturday night and into Sunday, I spent hours collecting and compiling the names of area restaurants, in Fredericksburg, Gainesville, Haymarket, Manassas, Stafford, and Woodbridge, and their Twitter accounts. I sent each a message, inviting them to share any specific takeout week specials they might be offering to their customers — at no cost to the business.
One restaurant — Smoothie King of Woodbridge, located at 4296 Merchant Plaza in Woodbridge — responded:
@PotomacLocal @SKWoodbridge Thank u for supporting the restaurants of PWC! I was born&raised here &there’s no better place to have a small business.We’re a large county with small-town roots & take care of each other.We r offering a free immune builder enhancer in all smoothies.
— SKWoodbridge (@SkWoodbridge) March 30, 2020
Smoothie King, we’re happy to share this with our Potomac Local News community. Good luck, and we hope you sell a lot of smoothies this week.
Virginia Takeout Week runs today through Sunday, April 5.
