Since the pandemic hit Texas, about 9,000 restaurants across the state have been forced to close. Another 12,000 were promised relief funds that never showed up.
AUSTIN, Texas — In the two years since the pandemic hit Texas, about 9,000 restaurants across the state have been forced to close. But when Congress passed a trillion dollar spending package earlier this month, it didn’t include any relief money for restaurants.
“About a third of our eligible Texas restaurants received funding from the RRF,” said Kelsey Erickson Streufert, chief public affairs officer for the Texas Restaurant Association. “It was truly was a business and job saver here in Texas. But unfortunately we had 12,000 local restaurants that did not receive that fund, and what we’re telling them now is that we don’t think it’s going to happen.”
“We’re over two years into this pandemic,” she said. “I think it’s important to remember that restaurants were ordered by the government to close. It wasn’t a bad business decision or strategy gone wrong.”
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