'We’ll start by saving 100 restaurants, bringing back roughly 1,000 displaced restaurant workers at $20 per hour and providing 50,000 free meals to those communities hit hardest by COVID-19.'
that are considered “high need communities”—will provide grants of up to $30,000 to cover at least six-weeks of payroll expenses for a minimum of five employees at 100 restaurants.
“Small businesses across the board, and these mom and pop restaurants in particular, they were dealing with the rising rents, they were dealing with so many challenges making it harder and harder just to keep going each day,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said announcing the program,. “In communities of color, in immigrant communities, small businesses represent something additionally powerful: They represent culture and identity. They represent perseverance.
First Lady Chirlane McCray provided additional details on the program, stated to be valued at $3 million in total. “We’ll start by saving 100 restaurants, bringing back roughly 1,000 displaced restaurant workers at $20 per hour and providing 50,000 free meals to those communities hit hardest by COVID-19,” she was quoted as saying, emphasizing the word “start,” and implying more restaurants could be accepted down the road.
Still, with somewhere around 27,000 restaurants in New York City, it would seem likely that the program will find interested participants.
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