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For the hospitality industry, struggling to recover, it’s a moment of reckoning Janelle Nanos © Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Rachel Miller Munzer, a co-owner of Mamelehs, is using PPP funds to raise wages and get rid of tipping. After a year of forced dormancy, the restaurant industry is scrambling to get ready for an expected boom this summer. That means hiring back some of the thousands of workers who’ve been without jobs or steady hours over the past year because of pand...

‘They are our family’: Neighborhood bars struggle to survive during pandemic By James Sullivan Globe Correspondent,Updated January 14, 2021, 2:52 p.m. Email to a Friend Longtime customer Cindy Wallick eats and has a drink while playing Keno at Pratty’s C.A.V. in Gloucester.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Pratty’s C.A.V. in Gloucester has been a family business since Jimmy Pratt bought the place in 1986. He’d been working there since he got back from Vietnam, when it was stil...