Behind the Concerted Effort Not to Save America’s Restaurants

Restaurant are dying at a record rate—but insurance companies won’t bail them out

Moe Tkacik
Marker
Published in
10 min readDec 3, 2020

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Photo illustration source: Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images

In the early days of the pandemic, Rosa Thurnher did what every restaurant owner did and leaned into the impossibility of the circumstance: She learned basic code and pivoted to takeout, applied for grants and a Paycheck…

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Moe Tkacik
Marker

senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, co-founder of Jezebel, former Wall Street Journal reporter, off-again waitress, mommy