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Interview with Diego Diaz
The pandemic has been disastrous for many small business owners, but especially for those who opened in the middle of public health orders and lockdowns. Diego Diaz and his family opened Tio David’s Peruvian Flavor last May in Albuquerque’s Nob Hill. But because they didn’t open before February 2020, they were not eligible for any of the COVID-related federal loans or grants for businesses. He has started a crowdfunding campaign for the restaurant.
DIAZ: We received the key for our new building, February 1, and right after that is exactly when lockdown started. So we just did our best to get the restaurant open. But we had to delay it up until May, you know, we re just working and hoping that we can ride this out all the way until everything starts going back to normal. We re hoping that because of the vaccines, hopefully here in a couple of months, I believe some people are going to start going back out. And even if it s not dining in, you know, eve