Restaurant grants move swiftly, prioritizing businesses predominantly owned by vets, women and minorities Matthew Korfhage, The Virginian-Pilot © Hannah Ruhoff / The/Virginian-Pilot Restaurant owner Kevin Ordonez at Alkaline Baby Izakaya in Virginia Beach on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Ordonez applied for a federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund grant Monday, and said whether he gets the money will be a large factor in the continuing existence of his restaurant.
“Brain is fried,” wrote Eric Nelson, owner of Norfolk restaurant Crudo Nudo, on his Facebook page Monday afternoon. “The SBA grant application has been frozen for 2 hours.”
Like the owners of more than 200,000 food-service businesses this week, Nelson was applying to receive a grant from the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund, approved this year as part of the CARES Act.
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