CUYAHOGA COUNTY, Ohio — Have you noticed more restaurants closing in Ohio? You're not crazy.

According to the Ohio Restaurant Hospitality Alliance, at least 500 restaurants will have shuttered this year.

The CEO and President of the Alliance, John Barker, told me the number is much lower than during COVID-19, though.

"We think about 110,000 restaurants closed across the United States during the pandemic. That was really from the summer of 2020 all the way through about 2022," Barker said. "You see some mom and pop's that maybe got opened after the pandemic when things were really booming. Now we're back to an environment where costs are really high and they're high because you had that inflation that just zoomed from 2020 up to really late last year."

Barker said food costs are up almo

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