Dallas Ebola Scare Impacts Local Businesses
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Ken Molestina
DALLAS, Texas (CBS 11 News) – Despite repeated attempts from health officials and local leaders to calm concerns over Ebola in Dallas the paranoia continues, and now it’s taking a toll on local businesses.
Back Country Bar-B-Q on Greenville avenue sits just down the road from Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. It’s in close enough proximity to the hospital where the Ebola patients have been treated that worries over the virus here are rampant.
Frank Hart, the restaurants manager and president says their business has been slipping in the past two weeks, and he has no doubt it has everything to do with scared people not wanting to be in the area near the hospital.
Hart said, “The large corporations they can weather a storm like this, but your small business people we are living month to month.”
He tells us sales at Back Country Bar-B-Q has dropped about 40 percent since the Ebola concerns began.
He says if this continues they may not be able to sustain themselves beyond the holiday season.
Hart added, ““November, December are my two biggest months of the year and if they’re not going to be there then yeah. It’s probably going to be over.”
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