纯K 开始做外卖了
所有主做人与人 in person 沟通的店面，疫情意味着断崖式的影响。而娱乐，相比于吃饭的店面来说，受到的影响显然是更大的。
不清楚纯k 有没有享受到什么补贴之类的福利政策。
对于很多小公司来说，基本就是靠自己硬挺。
但是做公司，或者广义的说，投资，都是会有风险的， 遇到了就面对呗，也没什么。
有看到一篇忘了是New Yorker 还是 New York Times 的文章，说 millennials（千禧年一代, 对应差不多85-95 后） 基本是最近几代人里面最悲催的。成年路上遇到了两次百年一遇的经济衰退，一次是08 金融危机，一次就是现在。
有一些“复盘人生的书籍” 会得出结论说人的出生时间和能否成功有很大关系。而也会有研究数据告诉你一家公司能做成的最重要因素就是Timing。
但你相信乐观的力量吗？一本叫做mindset 的书会告诉你，你的belief 对于你的影响可能比你想象的更大。
所以不管你相不相信乐观的力量。请你，一定，要，选择，相信。
有一篇纽约时报的文章，讲了美国小镇的一家滑雪度假村，因为疫情实在撑不下去了，类似纯K，开始卖杂货和送pizza外卖。但生意还是难有起色。这时候老板想了一个方法，开始穿着恐龙，兔子等的表演服去送外卖，还送上一段跳舞。 大家宅家都挺无聊的，看穿着恐龙跳舞的外卖员，就会找到点乐子。 所以小店的订单居然多起来了。
不管个人还是公司，不管是原先过的不错的，还是过的不顺利的，这段时期都有新的烦恼和新的无力感吧。
勇敢、乐观的面对吧。因为你笑起来，帅气好看
下面是纽时全文
原标题：When Innovation Looks Like Dancing Dinosaurs
原作者：Photographs by Damon Winter Text by Devi Lockwood
原刊于：New York Times
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CORTLAND, N.Y. — In mid-March, after 112 days of being open for the ski season, Greek Peak Mountain Resort shut down its chair lifts and snow-making machines. The hotel and indoor water park closed for business, and preparations for the spring wedding and mountain biking season were put on hold. The staff of 500 was reduced to 17. Greek Peak is an economic powerhouse in central New York. Those layoffs have enormous ripples.
Shelby Davie, the assistant food and beverage director, using a booth in the dining area as her office.
Then, changing the business to accommodate the new reality of coronavirus regulations became a priority. The remaining employees at Greek Peak decided to transform one of their restaurants, Trax, into a takeout and delivery operation, using the hotel kitchen to cook. After seeing pictures of empty grocery store shelves, they pivoted their business strategy again, transforming the lobby space of the hotel into a grocery store with low-cost items for the community.
The lobby of the lodge has been turned into a community grocery.
Sean O’Brien, a banquet chef, watching a live briefing by President Trump at a bar at the resort.
Greek Peak’s new business goal, rather than making a profit, is to stay alive, keep as many people working as possible and continue to serve their community in a different way.
“I think the new normal is flexibility,” Ms. Broderick said.
This new store offers fruits and vegetables, cheese and meats, and has a lineup of frozen, precooked meals for $4.99 that serve one to two people: Salisbury steak, spaghetti and meatballs, mac and cheese, and beef stroganoff.
Catherine Watkins talking to Sean O’Brien while he prepared pizzas for delivery.
The hotel lobby is open daily from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Access to the store is limited to six people at a time, and everyone has to use hand sanitizer when they enter and exit. People can only touch the food that they are going to buy. Customers bag their own items. No one shakes hands.
At first, standing six feet apart in the improvised grocery store was awkward. “Now it’s just normal,” Ms. Broderick said.
Hank Faber lives in a townhouse on the resort property and walks to the new grocery store to buy milk, eggs, produce and frozen meals. Mr. Faber was formerly relying on Meals on Wheels, but has transitioned to shopping at Greek Peak for food.
Mr. Faber is legally blind, and his only complaint about the store is that the lighting is low. “They usually help me pick out the stuff I need,” he said.
Hank Faber gets his meals at the resort.
Ayden Wilber, the resort’s director of operations, had the idea to take its new food delivery service one step further. Greek Peak is “not as well known for delivery, so we were trying to come up with a way to make ourselves a little bit unique,” he said.
While perusing Amazon, Mr. Wilber found and ordered two inflatable dinosaur costumes: one for himself and one for Sean O’Brien, a banquet chef. The costumes arrived on March 25. The next day, the two men delivered pizzas to a family in the dino suits while dancing to “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars.
One of the employees filmed the delivery and posted it to Facebook. “This for making people’s day with a little extra Love!!! I mean BIG extra LOVE,” one person commented. “Great job guys, you made my day,” another added.
Soon, they were getting more delivery calls than they could manage. “I didn’t expect the video to go so viral,” Mr. Wilber said.
Ayden Wilber, the resort’s director of operations, had the idea to make dinosaurs a feature in its new food delivery service.
Music plays and the dinosaurs dance as they leave the van.
The process is quick — Mr. Wilber and Mr. O’Brien shuffle out of the van, maintaining a six-foot distance from customers. They wear gloves on their hands. One of the dinosaurs unzips the pizza from the bag that keeps it warm and leaves it on the ground at a safe distance. Then, they dance back into the van.
“I don’t have very good dance skills so I sort of followed Ayden as much as I could,” Mr. O’Brien said. “It’s funny because if you have a long driveway you can sort of get into the character and dance a little bit.” Short driveways are more difficult, he explains. It’s harder to build the anticipation.
Their goal is to “make people laugh and lighten the mood,” Mr. O’Brien said. “Ironically, I’m a relatively shy person so getting inside it is a task in itself, but then the realization that no one knows who you are is a little more comforting.”
The Gleason kids getting a pizza delivery.
In a normal year, Mr. O’Brien would be preparing food for upcoming events, weddings and corporate meetings. Now, he makes pizza, wings and frozen meals. When they get a call for delivery, either he or Mr. Wilber don a dino suit.
“We’re just trying to do our part to keep people happy,” Mr. Wilber said.
“It’s tough times. We’re just trying to lighten the mood and be out there for people,” Mr. O’Brien added.
Angela Gellatly of Cortland received a delivery on April 1 for her family: two pizzas, fried calamari, a salad and mozzarella sticks. She had been to the indoor water park at Hope Lake Lodge, and saw the video of the dinosaur delivery on Facebook.
“We’re bored,” Ms. Gellatly said. “I think it’s genius what they did.” Her family had decided to avoid takeout because of fears about contamination, but they broke that resolve for the dinosaurs. The delivery was an April Fool’s joke for her 6-year-old daughter.
“I think that more people should follow their lead,” Ms. Gellatly said. “Any kind of entertainment and joy and happiness that we can have right now, I think we have to seize the moment.”
The VanDeWeert family ordered pizza to celebrate the 11th birthday of Adam VanDeWeert, right.
Angela VanDeWeert of Marathon, N.Y., ordered pizza, mozzarella sticks and a birthday cake to celebrate her 11-year-old son’s birthday. Two families in the neighborhood came to their yard to celebrate, at an appropriate distance.
“No child wants to have a birthday during this crisis. Just having smiles on their faces is huge right now,” she said. The kids are feeling it. We need reminders that we are in this together and there are smiles underneath the tears right now.”
Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Wilber refer to their dinosaur costumes as “hazmat suits.” The hardest part of the delivery is making sure that the costume is inflated enough. “If the wind is blowing, you bobble,” Mr. O’Brien said. They found that they could use a leaf blower to speed up the process of inflating the costumes in the back of the van.
Ayden Wilber, right, and Sean O’Brien riding back to the resort after making their deliveries.
Inside the dinosaur suit, it’s difficult to see, and it’s hot. “The hardest part is when we’re hopping out of the van, if they’re not fully inflated, you’re trying to get them to inflate and stumbling around a little bit, trying not to fall in ditches,” Mr. Wilber said. “It’s kind of a riot.”
The dancing dinosaur delivery has become so popular that Greek Peak has had to limit it to just three days a week — Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. — so that they were not leaving the kitchen empty with an already limited staff.
This week, they delivered pizzas to a coronavirus testing center in Ithaca. On Easter, Mr. Wilber and Mr. O’Brien will deliver premade Easter meals in bunny costumes.
Hank Farber walking home after picking up frozen meals at the resort.
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