Small businesses join governor to push for additional relief
By SAM METZJanuary 27, 2021 GMT
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Walter Gloshinski, who owns Smiling with Hope Pizza in Reno, Nevada, believes the pandemic has forced workers to make impossible choices.
“I see so many businesses like small restaurants and their employees are making $10-an-hour. They’re ‘get-by people.’ They come to work sick and don’t say anything because they have needs and you can’t blame them,” he said Tuesday, speaking alongside other small business owners and state officials during a virtual roundtable on pandemic issues.
Gloshinski and his wife have a background in special education, and three members of their nine-person staff have cognitive disabilities that make finding a job difficult, he said. He decided to close his restaurant amid a Reno-area surge and said uncertainty surrounding vaccines makes it difficult to plan for the future.