A September 2020 Yelp study found that 800 small businesses are closing every day in the United States.
More data is needed to fully understand the scope of the pandemic's impact, but it's incredible to watch people beat the odds. Some Bay Area business owners have managed to adapt by making masks or starting something like a distance picnic company. Joe Haley and Mustafa Oberi started their company ParcNiks SF, to give people a safe space to eat outdoors and do it in style.
Lennotch Taplett, owner of LUXGROOM, also found a way to thrive in our new environment.
"For the past dozen or so years, I've owned a barbershop in downtown Union Square and you know business was great," Taplett said. "The pandemic really changed how I had to go about doing things. With the uncertainty of the opening and the closures, the best idea for me was to ask myself, 'How do I get my business back to my clients?' A mobile barbershop was the perfect solution."