As fear of coronavirus spreads, business drops more than 30% at Toronto Chinese restaurant
‘People are considering shutting their doors down,’ manager says
Desmond Brown · CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2020 7:26 PM ET
Jeanette Liu, manager of Yueh Tung restaurant, says business has dropped more than 30 per cent in recent weeks.
"The fact that we're seeing about 30, 35 per cent decline speaks to the fact, I think, that it is having a lot to do with coronavirus misinformation," Liu told CBC News.
"A lot of business owners that we know have been calling us, asking how's business," she added.
"We haven't seen a lot of the blatant racism that other fellow business owners have experienced in the last couple of weeks, but they're getting calls, they're getting people threatening them, telling them to go back home where they came from."
Liu said these businesspeople have never lived in Wuhan and come from places as diverse as India, like her family, and Jamaica.
"The fact that people are calling businesses, hardworking business owners who've contributed to the city and telling them to go back home where they came from, it's not funny," she added.