Cameron Mitchell wasn’t sure he restaurant company would still be around.

The founder and CEO of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants was just as scared as anyone in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic that the event might lead to the end of the company he’s spent nearly three decades building.

Now seven months in, the self-described optimist feels more confident in his business’ survival and hopeful the worst has already occurred. But there still are key questions to be answered — five in his estimation — that businesses, restaurants especially, need answers to in order to feel better about the future.

In this episode of Crisis Management, Mitchell lays out those questions and when he expects to hear answers. He also shares a look at how his business is performing — what’s working and what isn’t — in addition to updates on several new restaurants that were in the works when the pandemic hit.