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Workers in the battered live music industry get one break: free high-end meals We re not looking at it as a handout, said Mary Conde. We re looking at this as a thank-you.
Lily Janiak May 9, 2021Updated: May 12, 2021, 7:23 pm
Manny Cabanas (left) of Another Planet Entertainment hands out meals to music industry workers outside Verjus in San Francisco. Another Planet Entertainment partnered with Touring Professionals Alliance Kitchen to provide 2,500 free meals over five weeks to unemployed workers in the Bay Area music industry. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Verjus was exceptionally if unusually staffed. Food runners came not just from the Jackson Square wine bar, restaurant and shop but also from Another Planet Entertainment, the concert promoter that runs the Greek Theatre, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and the Independent, among other venues and festivals throughout the Bay Area.
HEINZ, The LEE Initiative Launch Grant Opportunity to Help Black-Owned Restaurants Preserve Cultural Legacy
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Co. said that Black-owned restaurants are critically important to communities across the country. The company wants to help ensure these businesses thrive for years to come. Stock/kali9)
Activism has shaped a new social justice movement, following the death of George Floyd. A need for change has been assessed in various societal areas, from police reform to support of minority-owned businesses. In the case of Black-owned restaurants, sometimes an expression of standing with the Black community can be as simple as explaining how support can be provided by patronizing Black-owned restaurants. For instance,
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It’s been a year since the coronavirus pandemic upended the U.S. restaurant industry, necessitating innovations in takeout, carry-out cocktails, expanding outdoor dining and contactless technology. Trends that weren’t supposed to take hold for years have occurred at an accelerated rate.
“Looking at 2020, obviously it was the worst year in history for the United States restaurant industry,” said Hudson Riehle, senior vice president of the research and knowledge group for the National Restaurant Association. “In all the industries in America, the restaurant industry was the most impacted in terms of employment and sales decline.”
Riehle said 2020 ended with an estimated $240 billion less sales than 2019 a 19.2% decrease and that 2 million restaurant workers remain out of work, even though the country is staring to reopen.
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