Football is not just a game in Boone, it’s a business, and local restaurants felt the impacts of COVID-19 on the sport.
“Coming in for an evening shift, it’s normally pretty slow, but on game days specifically, we would have a packed house. We’d have people waiting out the door,” server/manager at Our Daily Bread Mackenzie Hemphill said. “Not having those game days, our numbers have gone down tremendously.”
App State football has long been a core value of the Boone community, drawing thousands of fans and alumni to Boone every game day. These fans don’t only attend the games, they spend money eating and shopping in Boone.