Post-Pandemic Recovery

Beyond ethnic difference and migration, ethnic food shops are essential businesses in the British high street and their adaptation and survival is essential to post-pandemic recovery and the economic capacity of an urban region.

Working in close relationships with their local communities, ethnic food shops have played an active role in responding to the pandemic and its emergencies: providing food aid to marginalised people, responding to supply chain disruptions and pandemic-induced demand for specific products, navigating the changes in the business landscape ushered by the pandemic (increase in delivery services, the emergence of virtual kitchens, the shortage of personnel, the shifting public health requirements).

How have business responded and adapted to the pandemic and what is their role in post-pandemic recovery is the object of investigation in this dimension of the project.