2021 Jefferson Awards: Matt Stern
In March 2020, the country and the economy began to collapse due to a deadly virus - and there was only one thing Matt Stern could think of:
"It was just an emergency and I was like, we have to help people."
Matt is the Owner of his family business, Stern Beverage - the local Budweiser distributor.
"Most of my friends are in the industry in one form or the other - waiters, servers, bartenders, owners," he explains. "It's a pretty thick network of people."
He wanted to help restaurants and bars in the Quad Cities that were being forced to close by the minute because of COVID-19. So, he got on Facebook and created a page called "