FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Jeff Braswell, owner of Jaxon Edwin Social House in Ellicott City, Md., displays three cocktails, Liquid Mary Jane, Lockdown Lemonade and Persephone, available for to-go purchases, on Friday, May 15. (Brian Krista/Baltimore Sun Media Group/TNS)
Cocktails to go help restaurants stay afloat
Worried that the four Virginia restaurants she runs were headed for disaster during the pandemic, Sarah White branched out.
The neighborhood restaurants, which serve casual-style foods such as burgers and sandwiches, started providing curbside pickup. One of the owners applied for and got funding from the federal Paycheck Protection Program. And when Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam in April allowed restaurants to offer cocktails to-go, White decided to give it a try.