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Lindsay Mescher is at a breaking point. After a year trying to keep her fledgling restaurant afloat during the pandemic, anxiety infects every moment.
“I'm at this spot where I wake up, and the first thing I think about is our finances. I wake up in the middle of the night. I toss and turn and it just hits,” she said. “It’s what I think about all day. And I don't know if I'll have that in me anymore.”
She founded her little farm-to-table restaurant, Greenhouse Cafe in Lebanon, Ohio, in July 2019 after moving back home from Nashville to be close to family. Her brother had died in a workplace accident, and his widow found out weeks later that she was pregnant with their first child.