Since all Burger King locations are closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the fast food chain has released a campaign showing customers how to make their burgers at home. As people self-isolating pine for their ‘old lives’, DIY projects and recipes are helping them satisfy their creative urges.

To keep businesses alive during COVID-19, bars across New York City are being permitted to sell alcohol to-go, either bottled up or in plastic cups. With people feeling the effects of being cooped up at home, this once-illegal perk is feeding their desire for relief via small acts of rebellion.

Eating alone used to be a sad affair. But thanks to Britons getting more comfortable with their own company and an uptick in solo-dining restaurants and single-serving cooking approaches, dining by yourself is now de rigueur. So how can brands tap into the food and drink ‘aloneness economy’?

Many are calling lockdown a social nightmare, while others are thriving and can’t imagine going back to ‘normal’. Canvas8 spoke to Jenn Granneman, author of The Secret Lives of Introverts, to understand why certain people love being at home and what brands can do to better cater to them.