Local heroesBig Table is a resource serving the Seattle/Spokane area and also San Diego with assistance for restaurant and hospitality industry struggling with a variety of issues including poverty, substance abuse and now the COVID-19 crisis. In Washington, D.C., Hook Hall is distributing care kits and family meals daily from 6-9PM for industry workers. Launched in 2015, Southern Smoke is a Houston-based 501 (c)(3) organization created to help hospitality workers and since 2017 its emergency relief fund has distributed more than $1million to F+B industry workers in crisis. COVID 19 Hospitality Task Force is a Facebook group (by invitation) with numerous links to stories and sources, as well as other hospitality workers. Restaurant Workers Community Foundation has a dedicated COVID 19 information site with links to resources for industry workers, including information on relief funds and unemployment applications.

Source: Forbes March 31, 2020 02:15 UTC