May 30, 2020 — 
A group of Oakland restaurant owners has composed and sent a “Retail Recovery Proposal” letter this week to the City of Oakland, expressing their collective urgency around saving their businesses while reopening safely and protecting their workers while moving “back into what is hopefully a new and improved ‘normal.'”
A group of Oakland restaurant owners has composed and sent a “Retail Recovery Proposal” letter this week to the City of Oakland, expressing their collective urgency around saving their businesses while reopening safely and protecting their workers while moving “back into what is hopefully a new and improved ‘normal.'”
“Something has to be done immediately to avoid the certainty of mass restaurant closures,” reads the letter, signed thus far by over 150 Oakland-based small-business owners, workers, and stakeholders and originally coauthored by Miles Palliser, owner of the Athletic Club Oakland; Chris Pastena, owner of Chop Bar, Tribune Tavern, and Calavera (depicted above); Jake Freed, owner of Shiba Ramen; Derreck Johnson, owner of Home of Chicken and Waffles; Melissa Axelrod, owner of Mockingbird; and Romney Steele, owner of The Cook and Her Farmer.
“Small retail businesses, and the restaurant industry more specifically, were already suffering and in need of support prior to this crisis,” the letter reads.…
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