Kristine Sherred: Why I won't be sitting inside a restaurant, with closed windows, anytime soon
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
2/5/2021
Kristine Sherred, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Feb. 5—The past year has been nothing short of a nightmare for small business owners — and service workers, postal carriers, teachers, nurses, students, people in general — in America. As has been well-documented in these pages and many others, it has been incredibly damaging to the restaurant industry and the millions of people it employs. It will continue to be.
But I cannot in good conscience encourage your return to enclosed dining rooms, no matter how kind you are or how well you tip.