Fewer industries got hit harder by the pandemic than restaurants.
In 2020, sales nationally were nearly $250 billion below projections, 2.5 million workers lost jobs, and more than 100,000 restaurants and taverns closed.
In hospitality-dependent Nevada, it’s feared that more than one-third of all restaurants have closed for good.
Alexandria Dazlich, director of government and public relations for the Nevada Restaurant Association, said the reopening of the economy is the only way to prevent more damage to the industry.
“There have been some instances of restaurants reopening, which is encouraging, however, the overall status of the industry remains dire, she said, In order for restaurants to begin to make a real recovery, they need to be operating at 100 percent capacity and the vast majority of restaurants that have been hit are small independent businesses.”
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Montgomery: The state said it was distributing its first COVID-19 vaccine doses to prisoners Wednesday, the Alabama Department of Corrections announced. The Alabama National Guard was expected to deliver about 1,400 doses to the Bullock Correctional Facility. Prisoners are not required to get the shots. The doses were first allotted to a National Guard-run clinic aimed at vaccinating rural communities. In a statement, ADOC said attendance at those clinics last week was limited by severe weather. The state Department of Public Health notified ADOC that a surplus of defrosted Pfizer vaccines needed to be used. Prisoners and other populations in group settings are prioritized under federal vaccine guidelines because of the risk congregant settings pose for the highly infectious coronavirus. Families of prisoners last year said
Nevada restaurants eligible for grants in COVID-19 relief aid
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Nevada’s restaurants are among the industries hit hardest by the pandemic and restaurant owners and a Las Vegas congresswoman hope the new federal COVID-19 relief law will be another lifeline for those struggling to hang on.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a Democrat who represents the Las Vegas Strip and downtown, appeared Wednesday with several restaurant owners to tout $28.6 billion in grants that were included in the law signed by President Joe Biden.
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