Collected Item: “The Big Boys”
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The Big Boys
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article
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In the restaurant world, there are the big boys and the ma-and-pa restaurants. Shake Shack is one of the big boys, founded by Danny Meyer, so why did it receive 10 million dollars of the Small Business Relief Money? Glitches, confusion, and fine print. National Restaurant Association lobbyists fought for a provision that would allow funding to go to chain restaurants with fewer than 500 employees per location. The relief money now exhausted many independent and small restaurant owners were left out while chains got millions.
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#allsfairinfood, #foodways, #greed, #foodculture, #ShakeShack
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/business/shake-shack-returning-loan-ppp-coronavirus.html
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
David Yaffe-Bellany
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2020-04-20