One COVID outbreak in a workplace could shut a restaurant down permanently. Katy Connors works with the Independent Restaurant Alliance of Oregon. She said almost every restaurant she works with has encountered a COVID scare. Those can shut a business down for close to two weeks. At this point, owners are worried about how long they can keep going like this. “At this point we have restaurants that have zero savings,” Connors explained. “They may have just gotten their second round of PPP but they also may have not gotten that second round of PPP which means there are no funds to support that closure.”