Smaller local businesses also benefited from being back in business as regular customers stayed local for their Thai or fish and chip fix. ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Cathie Bills with a fish and chip meal for her family from Gourmet Seafoods Shirley. ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Gourmet Seafoods Shirley owner Eugene Gillette says he is three times as busy as a usual day. Along the street at Thai Corner Takeaway, Ethan Charlett was handed his food through a plastic sheet. He ate there about once a week, and said lockdown without takeaways had been hard but had improved his cooking skills.

Source: Stuff April 28, 2020 08:37 UTC