Many of New York's streets have come alive with fenced-in dining areas with tables and umbrellas and decorated with flower boxes and hanging plants.

To owners of bars and nightclubs, pandemic restrictions on the industry can feel punitive. But there are important differences, virus hunters say, between a bar and a restaurant that serves alcohol.

The coronavirus triggered the sharpest economic contraction in modern history in the second quarter as the pandemic hammered the economy, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Restaurants are getting squeezed. How many will survive? And what should we do about it?

The first job David Parham ever had was as a busboy at a restaurant in Georgia. After working several jobs in the food industry, the Roswell native now...