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The owners of my local restaurant are like my family - and I’m anxious and sad that their business may shutter
‘The government has done little to assist the restaurant industry, which employs more than 300,000 New Yorkers.’ Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images
‘The government has done little to assist the restaurant industry, which employs more than 300,000 New Yorkers.’ Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images
Mon 21 Dec 2020 06.20 EST
Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 10.29 EST
When I heard Andrew Cuomo on the radio recently, talking about shutting down indoor dining in New York City restaurants again, I turned up the volume. I follow the hospitality industry news as if it affects me personally; in a sense, it does. My friends own a restaurant in my neighborhood, Sake Bar Satsko on East 7th Street. Since it opened in 2004, Satsko’s, as it’s also known, has become like another room of my house – the room where all t