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"At On The Square in Tarboro, co-owner Inez Ribustello says the restaurant did not have many of the challenges facing big-city eateries because it always did takeout; she describes customers buying more locally, the small retail wine shop being converted into a general-store space stocked with essentials (toilet paper, groceries), the creation of a large delivery service, and a sustained shift in business so that takeout now represents about 40 percent of sales with items like chicken wings selling out nightly when they were offered." - Matt Lardie