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Local restaurants struggle as chilly weather and COVID-19 continue to keep diners away

Jan 28, 2021

People's general feelings about dining outdoors in the middle of winter, in the middle of a deadly pandemic, are about what we expected when we asked this week's "On the Street" question of Inlander readers (see page 5). Plenty of respondents noted that recent outdoor meals were definitely chillier than is comfortably tolerable, even with the presence of portable propane or electric heaters...

Rock City Grill co-owner Jim Rhoades

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