“The food and beverage industry is not even paycheck-to-paycheck,” says the executive director of the Southern Smoke Foundation. “It’s shift-to-shift.”
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last Monday, she had already spent the week fielding panicked calls and texts from restaurant industry peers around the country. In Washington state, which was slightly ahead of New York in terms of its restaurant closures, unemployment claims had jumped 115 percent between March 7 and March 14. Claims across the country were up by 70,000, with so many coming in that the online application site was crashing.
“There was a lot of crying. I had so many people on the phone crying to me, devastated, because the business was completely wiped out in a matter of minutes,” says Seebode, who points out that there are over 250,000 restaurant and foodservice workers in New York City alone, and that such jobs made up 9% of employment in the state in 2019.
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