About In the Weeds on KCRW
In restaurant lingo, to be in the weeds is to feel overwhelmed in the thick of chaos. In pre-pandemic times, it often referred to drowning in orders. COVID-19 radically altered the restaurant industry, and brought a different kind of chaos and struggle to those who depend on it to survive. These intimate first person confessions are their stories.
A Los Angeles diner based on Skid Row has been donating meals to those in need as part of its plan to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and help its surrounding community at the same time.
For this week’s installment of “In the Weeds,” Monica May describes the renovated diner that she and her business partner, Kristen Trattner, opened in 2008 during the last economic downturn.