A wild year for restaurants in Clark County
Businesses found new ways to stay afloat as virus changed models, habits By Rachel Pinsky for The Columbian
Published: December 31, 2020, 6:02am
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Writing about food felt heavy in 2020. After the pandemic hit and precautions shut down restaurants, the nature of my beat shifted overnight. I went from writing stories about fun things like the best doughnuts in Vancouver to covering an unfolding catastrophe for restaurants.
I spent a lot of time searching for verbs other than “pivot” to describe the industry’s effort to survive as Gov. Jay Inslee issued and modified orders to combat COVID-19’s cruel spread.