In an effort to stand firm against racism and injustice, we have allocated $500 for each Graffito team member to donate to an organization working directly on social and racial justice efforts today.
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On June 23rd, Massachusetts Restaurants United hosted a Town Hall topic: How to Talk to your Landlord, featuring Graffito’s Jesse Baerkahn. This post includes the entire video presentation.
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Lately we’ve been spending a lot of time chatting with clients and colleagues about the effects that Coronavirus has had on their business and industry as a whole. Breaking from this pattern, we’re sharing perspectives from our own team in a quick Q&A.
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Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday extended the order requiring non-essential businesses to close their physical locations to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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Like everyone else, we’ve been scrambling to get a better understanding from SBA Preferred Lenders regarding the Paycheck Protection Program of the CARES ACT. This is the best summary we have got to date, which comes by way of a banker at People’s United Bank.
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State Senator Jamie Eldridge has filed an action to make insurance companies pay for coronavirus closures. It could be a “game changer.”
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We need the Governor and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to fully grasp the magnitude of the crisis restaurants are facing now, and will have to face when this madness subsides.
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At the same time as all of this, each of us have all been balancing ordinary work (and thankful to have it) with family (even more thankful to have it) obligations.
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Food & Wine published a candid, forward-looking call to action from our dear friend, Chef Matthew Jennings.
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The major events of life, personal and professional, are celebrated in restaurants. Acquaintances become friends around a table in the safe and controlled environment of a restaurant. Individuals become lovers across a restaurant table, sometimes.
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