In a letter sent to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the state’s most powerful restaurant lobbying group said that the current shelter-in-place order for all of California could cause as much as 30 percent of the state’s restaurants to permanently close “unless there are bold measures taken by the state.”

The message came from the California Restaurant Association (CRA), which “actively works to influence legislation at both the state and local level,” its website says. Prior to the coronavirus crisis, it