Independent Restaurant Coalition

Few sectors were hit as hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as the hospitality industry, with restaurants and bar closures serving as a frontline defense against social mixing. And yet, many of these businesses have struggled to get relief funding. As Food and Wine reports, despite multiple iterations, the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program proved problematic and controversial. And more recently, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund only provided compensation to about a third of businesses that applied […]