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Four Seasons Hotel in D.C. lays off employees amid coronavirus crisis

Layoffs related to the novel coronavirus pandemic have reached the Four Seasons Hotel Washington D.C. The hotel filed a layoff notice with the District that affects 413 employees, according to D.C. records.

The notice was filed March 20 but only appeared on the city’s public website of Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification events Tuesday.

The Four Seasons is still open but it has closed its restaurants and bars, according to a statement posted on its website. We’ve reached out to Four Seasons for more information and will update this post when we hear back.

Many hotel companies have laid off or furloughed employees as restrictions on travel related to the coronavirus have virtually eliminated hotel demand. Some of them are maintaining employees’ health benefits or have paid some kind of severance. Many of them plan to rehire the employees once business goes back to normal.

Local hotel brand companies Marriott International Inc. and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. have also…

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Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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