ROBERT PRICE: Hodel's, that beloved local dining institution, is at a COVID-19 crossroads | Columnists
The Hodelâs story spans two great pandemics. The north Bakersfield dining institution can, in a very real sense, trace its origins to the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Today it totters on the precipice of commercial survival. The COVID-19 outbreak, and consequent, government-mandated countermeasures, have closed Hodelâs Country Dining, the buffet-style landmark, after 53 years, at least temporarily. And the Hodel family really doesnât know what comes next. âEverythingâs...
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