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Too used to seeing boarded up storefronts everywhere. and there is natural tendency for us to see this and think things must be bad here but they must be still good at the places they are still open. what we have found, across the board, whether they are open or closed, they are bleeding money and accumulating debt, every day. >> so you've got three restaurants? >> yeah. >> are any of them open? >> no. >> reporter: greg morris has been in the restaurant industry for nearly 30 years but today his barstools sit empty. his kitchens, quiet. forea whil for a while, he tried reopening but in los ang...

>> yeah. >> reporter: are any of them open? >> no. ♪ >> reporter: greg morris has been in the restaurant industry for nearly 30 years. today, his barstools sit empty, his kitchens quiet. for a whil he tried re-opening but in los angeles where only outdoor dining is allowed there wasn't enough room to come even remotely close to paying his rent. you're talking about four different tables right here. >> yeah, six feet apart. >> reporter: that's it. >> yeah. >> reporter: he tried takeout and delivery but lost money there as well. i hate to ask, but how much are you losing? >> in the last five m...

Pivoting immediately. they said we have got a space. there are hundred people so they started offering meal boxes. they started offering grocery items in neighborhoods that didn't have access because the restaurants had the accounts the bring the fresh food in. by may, we saw that the fru vegetable had fixed their distribution issues so those restaurants pivoted heavily into restaurants and take out options. restaurants can't survive on 25, 40, 50% of past revenues given the business models that they started before covid and so the restaurants act, something that people can no go look at saver...

American who is were living just above that poverty line bounce down below it because the unemployment numbers are still high and those monthly checks have gotten smaller and you can keep going on and on and on with all the economic inequities and adversely affecting people of color. >> i've heard of some restaurants when they had to be closed, they were just putting meals together and trying to infuse into these spaces that we're calling food deserts. tell me about something inspiring of group, an organization, a restaurant that is doing something to stop this problem. >> there's so many. the...

It is sitting there in front of the folks on capitol hill to pass a bailout for an industry that represents almost 5% of gdp. we're seeing now all of the pictures of closed restaurants, the ones that are open are only available for 25% of customers. we're in a very, very deepening food crisis and our wood workers are being abused. so everything that we talked about in march, april and may, has only grown worse so it was time to take a second and harder look. >> and you did a great job. i remember what is eating america, the four specials and the salinas valley farm workers an the food insecuri...