Hospitality has been one of the hardest hit industries in the war against COVID-19.
But businesses in Echuca-Moama have refused to give up without a fight and, in some cases, have come back bigger than before restrictions limited their ability to trade.
Still, there is no denying our pubs, clubs and restaurants have suffered. Without the usual summer trade, an indirect result of the bushfires across the country, followed by the COVID-19 lockdown, there have been businesses who have struggled to survive or tragically collapsed under the pressure.
But throughout this pandemic, there have also been success stories and today the Riverine Herald does its best to cover a sample of them.
In this 16-page hospitality feature, we talk to those businesses who have adapted to come out the other side of COVID-19.