"Taste is a three-year-old Sichuan restaurant in downtown Palo Alto that specializes in numbingly spicy dishes like Chongqing xiao mian, but it hasn’t been selling much of anything lately. Owner Sandy Liu tells Palo Alto Online that the restaurant had less than $600 in total sales this past Monday and that sales, overall, have been down 80 to 90 percent for dine-in customers and 50 percent for deliveries ever since coronavirus fears started to mount last month. If that sounds like an unsustainable financial hit for a small restaurant, Liu agrees: She says the restaurant is on the brink of closing permanently, and might do so as soon as this week." - Luke Tsai
