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Restaurants
“Once we get to the point
of herd immunity, the indus-
try will look different,” said
Jason Brandt, Oregon Restau-
rant and Lodging Associ-
ation director. “My hope is
that it looks like it did before
(the pandemic). For sure, the
model will be more diversified.
“Restaurant owners have to
meet customers where they’re
comfortable.”
The trade association has
been urging the state to con-
sider easing dining-in restric-
tions, Brandt said. Oregon’s
foodservice industry accounts
for less than 1% of all work-
place outbreaks and 4.7% of
all Oregon outbreaks, Brandt
said. The leisure and hospital-
ity industry lost 25,500 jobs in
December statewide, and De-
schutes County nearly 30% of
those jobs in December, com-
pared to 2019, according to
state jobless data.
“Businesses are simply try-
ing to combine limited sales
from takeout and delivery
with Paycheck Protection Pro-
gram dollars with the hope
that indoor dining will be-
come available,” Brandt said.
“The industry continues to be
challenged by disproportion-
ate sacrifices in terms of help-
ing stop the virus spread.”
At El Sancho Taco Shop,
Joel Cordez, said he’ll con-
tinue the option for online or-
dering, except during summer
tourist season. The restaurant
learned last summer that add-
ing online to dining-in and
takeout was too many orders
and people had to wait for
their food. Cordez said he
didn’t want the quality of the
food to suffer.
“We’ve done fine this year,
but we’ve been lucky,” Cordez
said. “We had a strong take-
out business, but that’s not
what we specialize in. We like
our atmosphere where people
can hang out, and that’s what
our business is about: atmo-
sphere and food.”
Not only has Bethlyn’s
Global Fusion opened up a
so-called ghost kitchen and
called it Bombay Bend, but
they’ve also instituted online
ordering, said co-owner Beth-
lyn Rider.
The loss of revenue from
the governor’s restrictions
on dining-in prompted the
restaurant to look at its ex-
penses and ways to grow the
business. After brainstorming
and reaching out via social
media to Bend foodies, Rider
said, she and her partner
opted for this single cuisine
that is not on their normal
menu.
“It’s really helped us a lot,”
Rider said. “We launched it
Jan. 5 and it’s been really good.
Better than we thought. It’s
bringing in extra revenue.”
The most difficult task,
Rider said, was building a
website for the new cuisine
and for the online ordering.
“Right now, we’re living in a
virtual world,” she said. “The
tech part is the hardest.”
Going forward some com-
bination of online, ghost
kitchen and theme meals will
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Regional conflicts
The largest chip manufac-
turer in the world is Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufac-
turing Company, Limited
(TSMC) with most of its pro-
duction in Taiwan and several
factories in China. If you’ve
been following the latest news
(outside of COVID-19 and
US politics), China’s threats to
invade Taiwan have escalated
over the last few weeks due
to its perception that Taiwan
may proclaim independence,
even though it’s already a rec-
ognized country in its own
right. The United States re-
sponded to the threats by
increasing fleet operations
around the island of Taiwan,
moving a U.S. carrier battle
group into the disputed South
China Sea.
This potential conflict
threatens the worldwide sup-
ply of chips and could de-
stroy major sectors of the US
economy. With Intel’s recent
struggles, the US is vulnerable
to any disruption to our “ball
bearing” supply of chips.
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Mobile phones feel
the bite
Now cell phone companies
may be cutting back produc-
tion due to critical chip short-
ages. Samsung anticipates
production disruption as the
demand for memory chips
needed for mobile phones,
laptops and tablets exceeds
the current chip foundries’ ca-
pacities.
As the shortage continues,
some companies are add-
ing their own chip fabrica-
tion foundries. Apple has felt
the impact, especially with
chips that manage power in
their iPhones. Apple is mak-
ing moves to secure its chip
demands. It will start selling
Mac Pros in 2021 using their
own chips manufactured in
Taiwan and announced last
December that it’s replacing
Qualcomm chips in its iP-
hones with new Apple-de-
Computer chips are
a strategic resource
Similar to Iran’s threat
to the flow of oil from the
Middle East through the
Persian Gulf, China’s bully-
ing threatens chip deliveries
from China, South Korea, Ja-
pan and Taiwan. The United
States needs to secure chip
production on our soil and
provide incentives and tax
breaks to build more North-
ern American chip found-
ries, including in Canada
and Mexico. These should be
considered National Strate-
gic supplies, just like natural
gas, freshwater, oil and energy
production.
First step: buy only
U.S.-made chips
The government can take
the first step, to insist all chips
and other digital discrete
components in any federally
be part of the repertoire. They
created an Inauguration Day
dinner, a Valentine’s Day din-
ner and family-style meals.
They’ve all been popular,
Rider said, because they give
value to the customer.
With 15 years of business
in their belt, the owners of
Sparrow Bakery are making
a plea to customers to buy
twice as much takeout to help
struggling restaurants, said
Whitney Keatman, one of the
owners of the bakery. They are
calling the campaign “Twice
More,” to tap into a program
established in 2007 during the
economic downturn, called
“Make Local Habit.”
“We’re prevailing upon
our customers to help save
us,” Keatman said. “We’re en-
couraging the public to take
out more. Everyone is barely
hanging in there. If we can
get 10,000 or 20,000 people in
Bend to buy twice as much,
we’ll have the ability to turn
that into dollar signs.”
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purchased device be com-
pletely manufactured, assem-
bled and tested in the U.S.
within five years.
Secondly, create a “chip in-
frastructure” funding initia-
tive to create public/private
chip manufacturing facilities
and U.S.-only subcontracting.
Third, to fund Canadian
and Mexican chip fabrication
facilities near our borders and
re-initiate free-trade agree-
ments.
Bottom-line: achieve chip
foundry independence
With these initiatives, the
threat to the free-flow of com-
puter chips by hostile nations
will be neutralized. Our eco-
nomic security and the secu-
rity of our armed forces de-
pends on it.
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Preston Callicott is the CEO of Five
Talent Software and is a self-described
tech humanist who wants to embed
the best of human traits in AI systems
and robotics … before they rule the
world. His wife, Chelsea, and twins
remind him how great life is and that
work isn’t everything.
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