Takeout 25 has saved local restaurants in Oak Park. Now it’s flexing its spending muscle across the Chicago border, in Austin. Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune © John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune Prentiss Harris and Techa Lewis, co-owners of Chubby s Char House, outside their restaurant on May 12, 2021.
As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on last fall, Ravi Parakkat watched tensions rise in his community between restaurant owners desperate for revenue and officials trying to keep people from congregating indoors.
A potential solution hit him: Why not formalize the idea of ordering takeout, something people were doing already, and turn it into not only a means to a meal but a kind of civic salvation?
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