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The owner of North Country Brewing in Slippery Rock believes he did everything right.
When faced with the initial covid-19 shutdown orders implemented by the governor a year ago the first of which, right before St. Patrick’s Day, cost him about $32,000 in wasted food Robert McCafferty closed. He tried to do takeout, he said, but his business just couldn’t sustain it.
“It was all very new,” he said. “We understood the severity of everything.”
So they made it through last spring, and got to work rebuilding in the summer when some restrictions were lifted, and he could reopen.