As restaurants and bars across the United States shut their doors and lay off th...
Efforts to help the out-of-work are also being championed via online fundraising platforms such as GoFundMe, which is full of restaurants, theaters, and other venues raising money to stay afloat and celebrity-led campaigns to raise money for charities.
“So we came up with this idea of just letting people donate to servers and bartenders directly,” she said. On Wednesday – when she would have usually been at The Midlands D.C. Bar Garden with friends – she said she sent three or four bartenders there $10 or $15 tips via Venmo. U.S. service workers get most of their money from tips, according to the National Employment Law Project, and – unlike most other industrialized countries – Americans’ health insurance plans are tied to their employment.
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