Fort Worth Weekly
Protecting the Pour
Fort Worth is home base to a national movement that is raising public and political awareness of the plight of restaurants and bars.
By Edward Brown
Hospitality workers are invited to take a grab-and-go bowl of smoked pork (or a vegetarian alternative) starting at 5 p.m. at The Usual.
Artwork by Georgie Parker
Like many things in 2020, restaurants and bars are becoming political (in a nonpartisan manner). Faced with a Payment Protection Program (PPP) that allotted around 5% of forgivable loans to restaurants and bars at a time when the hospitality industry was being forced to temporarily close, many hospitality owners who oversee a workforce of 15 million are barely able to pay rent and overhead.