Abstract: Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, social production and people's lives have been directly and profoundly affected. For a while, national economy almost came to a halt. Catering is one of the worst hit industries. This article takes Hangzhou's catering industry during the 2020 epidemic as the object of investigation, focusing on the analysis of the economic losses, difficulties facing the catering industry of Hangzhou, government measures, and the self-rescue efforts of the catering industry, so as to put forward some development suggestions.

Key words: novel coronavirus epidemic, pandemic era, Hangzhou, catering industry