Maybe if it was the fast food and junk food dives that shuttered, but it's very likely the fine cuisine, the mom and pops, the "this is our one night this week we're going to eat out and we're going to make it count" places that do not have chains of other restaurants or branding in other areas to keep them afloat. New ones may come back in their place but if I was an owner of a small business restaurant that died because I couldn't afford rent in a city that told me I couldn't open up, I would be slitting some throats, and damn anyone who thinks I would be wrong in doing so.