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Are Worker-Owned Restaurants Better Equipped to Weather the COVID-19 Crisis?

The swift and brutal way that the novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the local food scene is well documented at this point, as restaurants across the Bay Area have laid off thousands of workers — in many cases almost immediately after the six-county shelter-in-place order was announced early last week. There is, however, at least one category of food businesses in the Bay Area that largely has not had to deal with layoffs: restaurants, bakeries, and grocery stores that