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Pittsburgh’s restaurant workers say they are baring all the brunt of the region’s coronavirus spike, but are seeing little benefits.

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HE PRESSURE TO KEEP RESTAURANTS open in Allegheny

County has been immense. Even as restaurants and bars have been one of the driving forces of the June and July coronavirus spike, restaurant owners protested to reopen their establishments, conservative politicians have lobbied on their behalf, and indoor dining restrictions were lifted as the county still sees triple-digit new COVID-19 cases each day.

The industry has been hammered economically. According to the Wall Street Journal, 570 restaurants have permanently closed in Pennsylvania as a result of the pandemic. Allegheny County hasn’t been immune with many restaurants also closing their doors, including longtime favorites like Alexander’s in Bloomfield and Shiloh Grill in Mount Washington. It’s understandable why many owners and market-driven politicians are clamoring to let restaurants “get back to normal.”

But the people on the frontlines of this industry, the ones that are literally risking their health to pour water, cook meals, and serve plates of food tableside, don’t feel the same as their bosses.

Pittsburgh City Paper talked to four different restaurant workers who spoke about their experiences working during the pandemic.

They don’t speak for every worker, and there are clearly some servers, cooks, and bussers who want to reopen too. But the servers CP spoke to said many of their coworkers feel the same as they do, and that restaurants shouldn’t have reopened for indoor dining. They also said that there is little incentive to go to work for minimum wage when tips are low, that significant percentages of employees ignore requests to wear masks, and that they feel vulnerable as their coworkers test positive for coronavirus while the owners continue to rush to reopen their establishments.

With the additional amounts of unemployment benefits ending this week, restaurant workers in Allegheny County and across the country are faced with a precarious choice: go to work at locations linked to coronavirus spikes or face little government support while unemployed.

Larisa Mednis quit her server job at Soba on July 1, rather than go back to work at the pan-Asian restaurant in Shadyside, which was set to reopen the next day. An employee at Soba tested positive for coronavirus on June 30, according to Mednis. Soba closed on June 30, but opened back up two days later for outdoor dining service.

Mednis, who also worked the host stand regularly, had already put in her two-weeks notice because she says the environment of working in a restaurant during the pandemic felt too uncomfortable. But she was still scheduled to work on July 2.

She says leadership at big Burrito Group, which owns Soba, never told employees exactly who tested positive, just that this employee’s last day working at the restaurant was June 24. Since Mednis worked that day, and wasn’t told to get tested by management, she thought it was too risky to return to work.

When Allegheny County moved into the green phase of Pennsylvania’s reopen plan on June 5, many big Burrito restaurants

reopened for indoor and outdoor dining, with capacity limits. Soba opened on June 8, and Mednis says during these three weeks before it closed down again briefly after the employee tested positive for COVID-19, the restaurant usually had 16-23 employees working in the large space.

But Mednis says there were many instances when front of house staff were confined to close quarters for periods of time, including relegated to a three-foot-wide servers’ alley in between serving customers. She says while the customers were given space to social distance at tables, that same space was not given to employees.

Amelia Benson, a Soba busser who worked at the restaurant during June, concurs that space for workers in the restaurant doesn’t allow for much social distancing.

But she believes the restaurant group should have tested all employees that worked on June 24, the last day the employee who tested positive for coronavirus worked.

“My logic is that I left work with the person who tested positive.

I should be tested before I serve the general public again,” says Benson. “It strikes me as too risky to serve the general public.”

Benson and Mednis say workers were not tested before Soba reopened on July 2. The next day, all restaurants in Allegheny County were closed to indoor and outdoor dining for one week as a way to stem a new spike in coronavirus cases. Since July 3, new daily cases have regularly reached more than 100, and for several days, cases have been over 200 a day. Before July, Allegheny County never saw a day with new daily cases over 100. County officials have said contact tracing has shown the visits to bars and restaurants, as well as people traveling in and out of the state, were the main drivers to July’s coronavirus spike.

Benson adds that employees at Soba are paid the tipped minimum wage in Pennsylvania, which is $2.83 an hour. She says workers were told that after furloughs brought on by mandatory restaurant closures earlier in the pandemic, employees would have to return to work or big Burrito could consider that a resignation, which would disqualify them for unemployment benefits.

“I don’t have a stake in the restaurant industry,” says Benson, noting she will be OK economically without her Soba job. “My concern is for who this is their full-time livelihood.”

In June, after an employee at Spork Pit in Garfield tested positive for coronavirus shortly after reopening to indoor dining, a worker at its sister restaurant, Spork, felt the situation was emblematic of the problems of restaurants being too eager to serve dine-in customers again.

“I think it was too soon to open up to indoor dining and indoor bars,” says the employee who spoke to CP on condition of anonymity. “I think it is irresponsible.”

Mednis also says most customers have been courteous, but the pandemic has slightly increased the amount of more entitled customers visiting Soba, like those who refuse to wear masks or ignore server’s requests for social distancing.

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some customers, and government officials value restaurants being open more than the safety of restaurant workers.

A protest was held in July in Downtown, where a group of restaurant owners and workers called for bar and on-site alcohol consumption restrictions to be lifted. The organizer of that protest did not attend because one of his employees tested positive for COVID-19 the day before, and he was awaiting test results.

“I understand that the industry is in a precarious position, but that burden should not be on a person making $2.83 an hour,” says Mednis.

Bill Fuller, president of big Burrito Group, says his company acted carefully and appropriately. He says he asked the Allegheny County Health Department about testing everyone at Soba, but the health department “cautioned against mass undirected testing to avoid overwhelming the labs.” He says ACHD says they would take care of contact tracing for the case.

“Also, per the ACHD, upon confirmation of a positive result, we shuttered the restaurant for 24 hours and sanitized the entire facility,” says Fuller. “We hired a professional firm licensed in this type of cleaning and remained closed for two days afterwards.”

Fuller rejects the idea that big Burrito is putting the company’s profits ahead of worker safety. He says the company has followed all county, state, and federal guidelines. He notes that all big Burrito employees undergo wellness screenings every day at work, which includes checks for elevated temperature and other COVID-19 symptoms.

“At no time were decisions made to put revenue gained from customers above the health and safety of employees,” says Fuller.

However, Fuller does admit that the big Burrito Group, and other restaurant owners, have been under harsh economic conditions during the pandemic.

The company sought and received a federal PPP loan, and when the county announced that indoor dining must adhere to a 25% capacity limit, Fuller cited it as the reason all of big Burrito specialty restaurants, which includes Soba, would indefinitely close.

(All of big Burrito’s Mad Mex restaurants are still open, and two of those locations were included in ACHD’s first round of COVID-19 Assessment Reports and both locations received 100% satisfactory assessments.)

But an employee at Casbah who spoke to CP on the condition of anonymity,

says they also feel the restaurant group is valuing revenue over worker safety.

Casbah also closed indefinitely since it is a big Burrito specialty restaurant, but this worker worked there the few weeks in June and July when it was open.

They describe a similar environment to Soba, in that workers were crammed into a small server station when not helping customers, and fears over interacting with customers who don’t wear masks while dining, and some who exhibit low regard for social distancing guidelines.

“It feels really really classist, that their enjoyment is valued higher than our lives,” says the Casbah employee.

Bobbi Linskens, an organizer for the Restaurant Opportunities Center in Pittsburgh, says the labor group has heard numerous stories similar to the experiences of the big Burrito employees.

“We have also found that when we have tried to help those restaurant workers organize for safer conditions and/or better compensation and benefits for risking their lives, many restaurant owners are using the pandemic as cover to retaliate against the workers,” says Linskens.

This appears to be the workplace life of restaurant workers during the

Patrons dine outside of Condado in Lawrenceville while others wait for to-go orders on Tue., July 21.

pandemic, and little help is on the way.

The Casbah employee says workers have requested hazard pay raises during the pandemic, but that conversation “has gone nowhere.” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Lehigh) has said that restaurants don’t need more regulation or government funding during the pandemic, and that restaurants just want to reopen. (Every worker CP talked to said they wished restaurants were only open for takeout).

Not all restaurants are just doing the bare minimum required by the county health department when confronted with COVID-19 cases. When Spork Pit’s employee tested positive in June, which was followed by an employee at its sister restaurant Spork also testing positive, ownership paid to get everyone tested.

All other employees tested negative, but the restaurant decided to close indefinitely on July 2. It has since announced reopening, but only for takeout.

“What are these things that we can do to catch the most COVID cases, without shutting down entirely?” Spork owner Andy Tepper told CP in early July, referencing the balance of trying to maintain the restaurants while also not contributing to coronavirus spread.

Two weeks ago, Gov. Tom Wolf (D-York) announced $50 million in hazard pay grants for a bevy of front line workers in industries like health care, grocery stores, transit, and custodial services. But restaurant workers are not eligible.

A worker who currently serves at a restaurant in Lawrenceville, who spoke to CP on the condition of anonymity, says the pressure to serve dine-in customers during a coronavirus spike has made them question if they want to remain in the industry altogether, despite loving the job.

The worker says they feel bad for the family who owns their restaurant, and knows they are struggling to keep the place open. But says the government policy has been too focused on restaurants being opened, and not enough about helping small-business owners and workers directly.

Wolf has supported a federal bailout specifically for the restaurant industry that could lessen pressure on the restaurant industry to remain open, and potentially lessen pressure on workers to serve customers. Fuller says he supports more federal aid for the industry as well, especially for small businesses and restaurant workers. But the bill, the RESTAURANT Act, has yet to move in Congress.

“I think the government is so concerned with the economy, but not the workers,” says the Lawrenceville restaurant employee. “You can support the restaurant without coming in and putting us at risk. I love this job; I drink wine and get to make cocktails. But this pandemic has made me realize that people don’t really care about us.”

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PUPIL PLANS How some Pittsburgh-area school districts are planning on reopening during COVID-19

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S SCHOOLS ATTEMPT to figure out what the fall semester will look like for students, the Pennsylvania Department of Education has required all school districts to submit health and safety guidelines laying out their precautions and plans for the upcoming school year, while the country is still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The plans explain different options for students, describing new safety measures as well as how rules will change depending on whether the state is in the Red, Yellow, or Green phase. Many schools are offering blended or hybrid model options, as well as options for families to enroll their children in a separate cyber school program.

The state Department of Education requires the plans to be approved by the school board, so not every district has yet made theirs available. But a number of Allegheny County schools, including the Pittsburgh Public Schools, have released theirs to the public. Here are some highlights.

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Arsenal School, part of Pittsburgh Public Schools, in Lawrenceville

Pittsburgh Public Schools The PPS program would offer either a blended option or fully online cyber school option to students. Students enrolled in the blended option would be placed in two cohorts, which attend in-person school on two days a week, and participate in online classes on the other three days that they are not present.

However, the school board has not yet approved the plan, and board member Kevin Carter introduced an alternate resolution that would have students attending fully remote classes for the first quarter (nine weeks) of the school year. Teacher’s union leadership is supportive of the move to start students at fully remote learning. PPS school board will vote on the plan on Tue., Aug. 4.

North Allegheny School District North Allegheny will offer two main learning options for students: in-person learning in schools, which has three potential phases depending

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on the state’s safety restrictions (fully in person, hybrid with a cohort system where students attend in-person classes twice a week, or a fully remote model), or remote learning through NA Cyber Academy. Students will have the opportunity to switch their enrollment to the online or in-person program at the end of each quarter of the school year, if they have changed their decision. NA school board will vote on the plan on Wed., July 29.

Mt. Lebanon School District Mt. Lebanon has decided to move their first week of school back a week to Aug. 31. Their program offers two main approaches — fully in-person, with the option for the school to move to hybrid options if necessary, and online through the Mt. Lebanon Cyber Academy through Edgenuity. Their cyber school program will include live and recorded instruction. The school board will vote

on the plan on Wed., July 29.

Aug. 3 to choose options for students.

Gateway School District

Moon Area School District

Gateway, in Monroeville, has three options available for students: a “Blended Learning Model,” which uses a cohort system; the Gateway School District Cyber Academy, which functions through a partnership with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit with live-stream teaching; or GATE (Gateway Academy Transitional Education), an online program that combines live and recorded instruction. Students in the Blended Learning Model would be placed into two cohorts, attending class two days a week, with online classes on Wednesday and recorded classes on days students aren’t physically in school. During Red Phase, all students will participate in GATE, or, if specifically enrolled in it, the cyber academy program. The school board approved this plan on July 21, and parents/guardians have until Mon.,

Moon offers traditional and blended options, as well as a fully online school option through the MASD Cyber School program. When traditional learning is in effect, students will attend school five days a week in person, with face shields and masks provided by the school. During blended learning, if conditions change in the district, students will be part of a cohort system, attending in-person class on MondayTuesday or Thursday-Friday, and students will be provided with their own iPads (K-4) or laptops (5-12). Students enrolled in the cyber school program through Lincoln Learning will remain online throughout the semester regardless of what phase Pennsylvania is in. The school board approved the plan on July 20 to send to the state Department of Education.

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I’d say Black Owned PGH takes up the most of my time out of everything. It’s collaborating with other organizations and universities, Zoom meetings, planning COVID-friendly events, finding ways to fund local Black businesses, finding sponsors or grants, planning scholarships to give out and so much more. Quarantine has really allowed time for me to strategically organize ways, outside of Instagram posts, to really help the Black entrepreneurs in Pittsburgh.

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VERYBODY IS DEALING with COVID19 quarantines and restrictions in different ways. While there’s no single right way to cope — social distancing and staying TF home aside — connecting with friends, family, and neighbors is a good place to start. You can contact your loved ones on your own, but you might also be curious how your favorite strangers in Pittsburgh are coping, so Pittsburgh City Paper is reaching out to artists, activists, workers, and makers to see how they’re doing.

Today, it’s Kyley Coleman, founder of Instagram account @BlackOwnedPGH. This interview has been condensed for length. Read the full version online at pghcitypaper.com

WHAT IS YOUR DAILY ROUTINE IN QUARANTINE LIKE? WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING ON A TYPICAL QUARANTINE MONDAY, FOR EXAMPLE? Something I struggled with during quarantine is staying productive, which is why I like to have a routine. On a typical Monday, I usually wake up and set my intentions for the day, whether that’s something I’d like to accomplish that day, what I want my purpose of my day to be, how I’ll incorporate self-care, etc.

I find taking a moment to gather your thoughts in the morning is really helpful when navigating throughout my day.

Then, I usually sort through BlackOwnedPGH’s DMs/emails and try to respond to as many as I can. I try to also

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make 1 to 2 detailed posts a day to highlight a Black-owned business. Around noon, I like to either try a new recipe (courtesy of Pinterest lol) or treat myself to takeout from a local restaurant. My mother and I have been watching Netflix shows together, which is something I really enjoy since I’ve been away at college for a few months — I missed family time so much. Later in the day, I like to paint.

It’s a new hobby of mine and a fun way to pass time by creating. In the evening,

after dinner, I go for a night walk around my neighborhood and begin to conclude my day. I usually end the day with a warm shower, writing, some R&B music, and the late-night scrolling.

HOW WERE YOU SPENDING YOUR TIME BEFORE YOU STARTED BLACKOWNEDPGH TWO MONTHS AGO? HOW MUCH OF YOUR TIME DOES THE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT TAKE UP NOW? Before BlackOwnedPGH, all my time

THE ACCOUNT HAS GROWN QUICKLY IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF BLACKOWNEDPGH? As for the future of BlackOwnedPGH, I want it to be more than an Instagram. I want it to be an organization, a resource, a tool and an additional helping hand to Pittsburgh. The plan was to have a few vending events, but I prioritize COVIDsafety regulations before anything. I’m not sure when I will be able to set up a big marketplace, [but] hopefully, I can put a small one together. In the meantime, I still want to do something virtually though. Currently I’ve been trying to work on a scholarship application that will be open to any Black-owned business owner or soon-to-be Black business owner in Pittsburgh.

Also, we are trying to create a website and an app which will make it easy to locate and sort through Black-owned businesses. All of this couldn’t have been possible without the donations we have received. We are open to any ideas or suggestions people have to offer, too!

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The three owners understand what sells. “No one can say no to tacos and fajitas,” says Avila. At the same time, they want to work in more authentic pieces of various Latin American cuisines. (On the website, they call their menu a mix of “Mexican cuisine and a variety of Latin food from South America.) Avila’s husband is Honduran and has already been weaving in traditional dishes, like flautas and sweet plantains.

For my first visit to El Sabor, I went with a few Mexican standards: carne asada tacos, chiles rellenos, and a whatwould-be-made-tableside-if-not-forCOVID guacamole.

It was all middle-of-the-road in taste, save for an accidental order of salsa verde, which kicked with flavor. (I ended up mixing the salsa verde into almost every dish; it added an especially perfect zing to the fresh, but flat, guacamole. ) The tacos, which I ordered Tijuana style (they also have a Pittsburgh-style option on the menu too, made with flour tortillas topped with lettuce and cheese), were just slightly off. The mix of the corn tortilla, cabbage, onions, and queso fresco was missing something; I wanted a pinch of cilantro or the zesty flavor of a really raw onion. The mild flavor of my carne asada — done quite well and was easily my favorite part of the tacos — was masked by the other elements.

I had a similar feeling towards the chiles rellenos. The cheese sauce that smothered my expertly-cooked peppers stuffed with ground beef overwhelmed the dish; it was too rich.

El Sabor is one of the many restaurants that has been forced to push back its opening date due to COVID-19 restrictions. The delay, paired with recently fast-changing restaurant regulations as Allegheny County’s cases spiked, has prolonged El Sabor’s soft-opening phase; Avila says they are still working out kinks and tweaking recipes. The restaurant has the bones of a good menu, and I’m excited to return in a few months to taste the changes.

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ORDAN CORCORAN FEELS she would

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“There are so many kids, especially right now, that are struggling with their mental health and they don’t know what it is,” says Corcoran. “Little Lucy is a fun, informal, bright way to start bringing up the idea of mental health without these medical terms that might be intimidating.”

Corcoran was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder almost 15 years ago, during her freshman year of high school. For two years leading up to that diagnosis, Corcoran struggled. She didn’t know what was going on, and she was being bullied at school. “[T]he stigma surrounding mental health was so strong, that the idea of something being wrong with me mentally was humiliating,” says Corcoran.

So she refused to get help, and when she went to college things got worse. Corcoran was in and out of the hospital, taking ambulance rides with an oxygen mask strapped to her face.

Eventually, Corcoran found writing as a creative and emotional outlet.

While she struggled to express herself in person, with writing she was able to explain her feelings in a much clearer, healthier way. In response, Corcoran founded Listen, Lucy about seven years ago. The mental health organization has the goal of ending the stigma around mental health.

Originally, Listen, Lucy was an anonymous online outlet where people could share their stories without fear of judgment while using writing as a coping technique. Visitors to listenlucy.org can still do that, but the organization evolved to include Corcoran speaking at middle schools, high

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schools, and colleges, as well as mental health organizations.

The idea for Little Lucy came about three years ago, and Corcoran started writing the story before her second book, Write It Out, was released in 2017. Write It Out is an “interactive journal with 40 prompts that will get your mind to work and your soul to heal.” Listen, Lucy, her first book, came out in 2015 and included a collection of anonymous stories that were submitted to listenlucy.org.

“It never felt like it was the right time [for Little Lucy], but I always kept coming back to it,” says Corcoran. “Then last summer, one year ago, I gave birth to my son and became a mom. All of a sudden Little Lucy started popping up in my brain a lot more.”

Just before the pandemic shutdowns began in March, Corcoran told her editor she wanted to revisit Little Lucy. She started rewriting, and when quarantine happened, Corcoran made the book her priority.

In Little Lucy, a young girl named Lucy learns about 4-7-8 breathing, a technique that involves breathing in for four seconds, holding the breath for seven seconds, and then exhaling for

eight seconds. Corcoran has used this breathing plan for over a decade. Lucy also learns a few other options for dealing with the “little butterflies in her stomach,” in case the breathing plan doesn’t work.

“I think when parents hear words like mental illness or anxiety or coping mechanisms or medication, all of that sounds so official and overwhelming,” says Corcoran. “So that’s why with Little Lucy, we wanted to focus on the ideas of little butterflies, because you don’t have to have a mental illness diagnosis to care about mental health, we [have] all felt butterflies in our stomach.”

The book’s illustrations are done by Ashleigh Long, owner of Chicago-based graphic company, Something of a Dandy.

Long was given photos of Corcoran as a child to use as inspiration.

“I think the most important thing with Little Lucy is that there isn’t any reason to be afraid or to be imitated to be talking about these things with your kids,” says Corcoran. “From the jump, we talk to our kids about physical health, eating right and exercising, and taking care of ourselves and personal hygiene.

All of that is so important but mental health needs to be on that list too.”

Follow staff writer Jordan Snowden on Twitter @snowden_jordan

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FRI., JULY 31 DATE NIGHT DRIVE-IN The Allegheny County Parks doesn’t just have family movie night. Their Date Night series caters to a more PG-13 crowd, and this week you can catch the wildly fun whodunnit Knives Out at South Park. The movies are free and there will be popcorn for purchase from Ekernally Yours. Gates open at 7 p.m., movie starts at dusk.

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