3 Seattle-area restaurant groups receive maximum grant from Restaurant Revitalization Fund
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Naomi Tomky, Special to the Seattle P-I
July 14, 2021
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This week, the Small Business Association (SBA) released the data about the 105,000 restaurants that received grants from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, of which about 2,000 were in the Seattle area and 1000 in Seattle proper.
The $28.6 billion fund, part of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that passed in March, set out to help cover the industry’s pandemic-driven losses, but the too-small purse caused controversy about how to distribute it.