Restaurants across the country are banding together to advocate for greater government aid to hospitality workers, G_Sny reports
The push to organize began in earnest early last week with two meetings: one held at the Atwater Village pizzeria Hail Mary, the other a conference call organized by Ann Hsing, chief operating officer of Santa Monica restaurants Pasjoli and Dialogue.
The duo reached out to nearly everyone they knew to spread the word, expanding what began as a loose affiliation of Eastside restaurants into a network of a few thousand people in two days. The newly united front, at least in L.A., emphasized outreach at three levels: city, state and federal. “We’re trying to put everything under one banner, in an open-source way, because that is what makes it easy to share the message,” she said. “There’s a majority of opinion of what needs to be done and what our industry needs help with. We’re trying to make the big movements on behalf of small businesses.”“Every day that help is stalled, it gets exponentially worse. There’s no way to quantify it.
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