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Local Restaurant's React to Stimulus Bill

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Local Restaurant's React to Stimulus Bill
Local Restaurant's React to Stimulus Bill
Restaurant Owner's Reaction to the Stimulus Bill

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With restaurants being forced to use curb side delivery or even close down, the industry in chattanooga is anxious to see how the stimulus bill can help businesses climb out of their financial hole.

News 12's winston reed gets reaction from owners in our area in our continuing coverage.

Pkg: 22 employees at the pickle barrel in downtown chattanooga were laid off over the past month.

Sot: "right now we're already on a skeleton crew i've got 2 cooks in the daytime and a bartender answering the phones and at night i have 1 bartender answering the phones and 1 cook."

Restaurant employees laid off are eligible for unemployment but owner ben bowers says it's not enough.

Sot: "i've talked to some of my servers and bartenders and their unemployment is 160 dollars a week and that's not going to cut it for them."

Curbside and delivery is simply not enough to push through.

"with the business we're getting i'm losing money."

The restaurant industry will have a piece of the 2 trillion dollar stimulus package.

The government is serving loans with interest to cover 2 and a half months worth of payroll and tax breaks.

Over at herman's, owner rodney billups is optimistic about the stimulus bill but says there is still uncertainty.

"right now i think small business are in denial on how we will get that package."

Laying off 8 of his servers was difficult for billups to overcome.

Sot: "they are more like my family thank just my employees i tried to do the best that i could do with them and the ones that i do have they're working split days."

Standup/ sig out: "owners who laid off their employees after feb.

15th can be forgiven for the loan if they rehire their entire staff or increase wages before the end of june.

Will these benefits allow the restaurant industry in chattanooga to stay afloat?

Only time will tell.

Reporting in chattanooga, winston reed, news 12 now.

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