To help keep people in their community afloat, some social media users have created Adopt a Restaurant Worker groups on Facebook, where people can provide financial support and connect unemployed workers with future work.
One early group started in St. Louis, Missouri, where nurse Sheri Ford-Beezley worked with co-workers to establish STL Adopt-A-Server in mid March. I have several friends who are bar and restaurant owners, bartenders, servers and cooks, Ford-Beezley said. I was desperate to try to find a way to help them. . The St. Louis group grew exponentially. It was insane.
While the group did have to come to an end with over a thousand members, moderating the page became too much work for Ford-Beezley and other group administrators, most of whom had full-time jobs in teaching and nursing it spawned several other local groups nearby, including in areas like Kansas City and Central Ohio.
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Mar. 1—Colorado Restaurant Association officials say they were "shocked" on Friday when Gov. Jared Polis released an updated COVID-19 vaccine schedule that didn't put restaurant workers on the same level as grocery store workers. Sonia Riggs, the president and CEO of CRA, said in a statement released on Friday that the Governor's Office, including the governor himself, assured the organization .