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Nationwide Chicken Shortage Is Fowl News For Restaurants Nationwide Chicken Shortage Is Fowl News For Restaurants
Nationwide Chicken Shortage Is Fowl News For Restaurants The COVID-19 pandemic is causing more trouble for family-owned restaurants already struggling financially, but now have to contend with a nationwide chicken shortage as demand for the product grows. With Americans turning to comfort foods during the pandemic and ordering more chicken dishes and sandwiches from area restaurants during stay-at-home mandates, poultry producers have been struggling to keep pace. The poultry producers were also stretched extra thin when many meat processing plants were forced to close at the beginning of the pandemic due to COVID-19 outbreaks, while some chicken…