In a show of support for presidential candidate Joe Biden, more than 150 chefs and restaurant owners across the country signed ancondemning President Donald Trump’s handling of COVID-19, which, they say, created an “existential crisis” for restaurants.
Included on the list of signatories are dozens of respected and well known chefs whose restaurants and bars represent both fine dining and more casual establishments. Among the signers are celebrity chef Elizabeth Falkner, television star and baker Duff Goldman, chef and cookbook author Anita Lo, Nina Compton of Compère Lapin in New Orleans, Brandon Jew of Mister Jiu’s in San Francisco, and Fran Camaj, owner of the Los Angeles-based Gjelina restaurant group.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, independently owned and operated restaurants have been regularly overlooked and ignored by the federal government, receiving little — if anything — in the way of clear guidance or financial support.
The PPP loan program that the CEOs and chefs were at the White House to discuss at May’s roundtable has faced criticism since its inception. In a first round of PPP funding, franchise locations of major restaurant chains like
Neither Trump nor Biden can address the issues that restaurant workers need to address on their own terms:
The poor man doesn’t know what day it is. Why would you think he can be a good president. elderabuse
Joe Biden helped destroy the small business, sickening that he's being propped up by them. Some people have no common sense. Vote Green, write in someone, don't vote, all of these are better options than putting your name on treason.
Small business owners should have helped make Yang happen. You've all been crippling your consumer base for decades voting for neoliberalism. You make money from the bottom & you made sure they didn't have any. You shot yourselves in the foot.
It’s the liberal that want to keep everything shut down
Morons. Your best hope at survival is Biden, who said he would've hesitate to shut you down again and seems to have no issue with your patrons being harrassed by mobs...
50 years in office.... Who failed who?
eaterpdx socialists like socialists
eaterpdx Any woke ass liberal running a restaurant, waiting for the government to tell him when he can open needs to go out of business..here in Portland these fools are bowing down to the liberal leaders while they've shut their doors..
that's funny joe biden would still have them 100% shut down. lol
Running out of anti Trump topics already? Maybe try one on Fat ass GovPritzker and chicagosmayor shutting them all down and raising minimum wages and what that does to a small business owner.
Oh bullshit. He’s the only one trying to reopen the country and the restaurants. How about they pen a letter to our Mafia Don Gov Cuomo who killed thousands of elderly people and refuses to reopen restaurants despite what his precious science shows.
GTFO. Yeah let’s endorse a guy who wants $15 minimum wage, free healthcare and higher taxes. No way it will be any harder to hit profit margins with all that noise.
150! Holy shit! That's gotta be almost all of them! If you are going to be making in-kind donations to the Biden campaign, just put the sponsored hashtag in there.
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