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Perez s is one such business. Under normal circumstances, The Bread and Honey House dining room has a capacity of only 16 people. So, technically Perez could have eight diners inside (but again, one table). But it s so small that I don’t think putting in four more people inside would increase our revenue to afford another full-time person,” he says, adding that he only wants to hire an employee for whom he can offer adequate hours. He s opened the patio, which normally seats and 30 and under COVID restrictions can accommodate about 16 seats outside. But the patio and takeout alone won’t cut it. The Bread and Honey House has, through a partnership with Local First Arizona, started catering to homeless shelters. Perez says the revenue has helped his business, easing the pain of paying bills. ....
All throughout 2020 since March, anyway a song rattled around in my head: People Who Died, by the Jim Carroll Band. It was a minor hit in the early 1980s; maybe you know it. Carroll, the punk-poet author of The Basketball Diaries, wrote it as a sort of tribute to friends he knew who died before their time. Some of them met wild ends: a guy killed by bikers, a woman who jumped in front of a subway train. Others left Earth via less dramatic but nevertheless heartbreaking routes. My favorite line goes: Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old / He looked like sixty-five when he died / He was a friend of mine. The chorus goes: ....