How 5 Local Restaurants Reinvented Themselves to Survive COVID-19

Over a single week in March 2020, nearly every plan at Topsfield Bakeshop was wiped from the calendar. The 15-year-old store, which operates the wildly popular Whoo(pie) Wagon—a fixture at area festivals, corporate events, and colleges—saw its schedule vanish, including the bakery’s thriving wedding cake business, in an unexpected instant. This, at a time when owners Mary and Chris Bandereck were in the home stretch of building an expanded facility with extensive kitchen space on Route 1 in Topsfield. “We were in too deep to turn around,” Mary says of the construction project. “We had to figure something out or we’d lose ever

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How 5 Local Restaurants Reinvented Themselves to Survive COVID-19

Adaptability has been key in keeping these North Shore food businesses afloat—and these five restaurants have gotten particularly creative.

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