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typically have 30-35 installers, some who
come from Puerto Rico. When business
dried up, we advised them not to come,
so we ended up operating with only
a third as many people as usual. " The
company ended up setting up more than
20 testing sites and 30 restaurants.
Other tent rental companies found
work from other sources.
At the beginning of the pandemic,
New York Tent, based in Bohemia,
N.Y., made the decision to ride out the
downturn without laying off any of its 50
employees " because it's taken us a long
time to get to a really good place with our
team, " says CEO David Tannenbaum.
New York was hit hard and early by the
pandemic. " It got serious here real quick, "
Tannenbaum says. " There were periods
when there was a little work, and some
seasonal staff were furloughed, but we
really started brainstorming and it's been
keeping us going. We have a lot of relationships that help. We just doubled down. "
The company landed work with
hospitals and the Army Corps of
Engineers, but decided to let restaurant
work go to others. " A lot of what we do

the restaurants couldn't afford, and I
didn't want to cheapen our product by
giving it away, " says Tannenbaum. " So
we let that go to some of the smaller
companies while we focused on large
national clients. "

BUSINESS IS BOOMING, BUT ...
Everything Entertainment, an event
production company providing services
to both corporate and private clientele
from its headquarters in Staten Island,
N.Y., has been providing tenting
for restaurants, but it's not like the
corporate clients that have been the
company's main clientele in the past.
" The restaurants are only taking tents. Nobody is taking walls,
ϐlooring or anything else, " says Scott
Weisberg, the company's president
and co-owner. " So business is booming, but it hasn't been proϐitable. "
Deryck Dietz, CEO of Traube Tents and
Structures, St. Louis, Mo., believes his
company's diversity-with extensive work
in government and in the commercial/
industrial sector-has helped it " tread
water " during the pandemic.

TOP: New York Tent, Bohemia, N.Y., was hit
hard by the pandemic, but the company did
not lay off any employees. Landing work with
hospitals like this one made a big difference.
Photo courtesy of New York Tent.
BOTTOM: While most traditional tenting
opportunities disappeared with the
pandemic, some emergency tenting needs
gave companies business. Traube Tents
and Structures, St. Louis., Mo., installed this
temporary Minneapolis, Minn.-based grocery
store that took the place of a CUB Foods
supermarket that was damaged during
rioting following the death of George Floyd.
Photo courtesy of Traube Tents and Structures.

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