As restaurants across Texas shut down their dining rooms, 1 million jobs are on the line

Thousands of Dallas service industry workers are facing sudden unemployment in the wake of this week’s mandatory city-wide shutdown of all restaurant dining rooms and bars. And hundreds of thousands more restaurant industry workers around Texas will be out of work as the statewide closure of all restaurant dining rooms went into effect Friday.

According to the Texas Restaurant Association, the restaurant shutdowns in Dallas and Harris counties alone will have a projected loss of up to half a million jobs in the state’s restaurant industry.