Major restaurant chains like Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Potbelly have been publicly excoriated for receiving millions in government loans intended to buoy small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis. But a rule that allowed them to participate in the Paycheck Protection Program, which determined a restaurant’s eligibility based on its number of employees “per physical location,” rather than in total, wasn’t originally introduced by these chains or their lobbying groups, as they emphasized to the LA Times. Instead, it came at