The Bearded Jaffle co-owner Todd Gawn. Source: supplied
One Melbourne small business has taken it on itself to support some of the city’s casual workers, offering free meals to anyone who has found themselves with no income and no support for two weeks. And the local community has jumped on board with a gusto.
The Bearded Jaffle in Ascot Vale the toastie business owned by AFL star Max Gawn and his brother Todd Gawn is shouting lunches for casual workers, hospitality staff and contractors, or anyone else who has found themselves without any income at all during Melbourne’s fourth COVID-19 lockdown.
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Twelve months ago it was unthinkable that an invisible threat – described as a wicked enemy by the state’s Premier – would turn Melbourne into a ghost town.
The city buzzed with international students, office workers thronged to the CBD, colleagues shook hands and trams and trains heaved with commuters and tourists.
Few Melburnians had heard of Brett Sutton and Zoom was the noise of Formula One cars streaking around Albert Park Lake every March.
But the world is a different place as we emerge, blinking, into the new normal , one of the now ubiquitous phrases that would have confounded us a year ago, along with covidiot, blursday, quaranteam and zoombombing.