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Angela Rosen opened Penelope and The Beauty Bar inside the Fairmont Olympic Hotel 10 years ago. COVID-19 safety rules required her to cease operations completely for much of last year. Now she’s open again but at just 25% capacity.
“I did not sleep that night. And I just like was beside myself,” she said. She was referring to the night after she got an unemployment insurance premium bill that went from $500 a month to $8000 a month, an increase of 1600%.
“The numbers don’t work, because you’re forced to be at 25% capacity. There’s no way you can make it,” Rosen said.