Viva Italia 🇮🇹 🎶 #Coronavirus

Nationally and locally there are funds being created to assist employees and now political action groups being mobilized to ensure representation for a stimulus bill. Can a media outlet organize all the efforts so we don’t create overlap. We need solidarity more than ever ✊🏼

Pete Wells They can come and get it if they want but I won’t pay anyone that demands I shut down with zero plan of action. The restaurant community will only survive this if we do things differently. I will not conform to rules that at this point make ZERO SENSE.

I just paid February’s sales and meals tax, and I have $0.66 left in our restaurant account. I’ll be using money my family has been squirreling away for my daughters college fund to restart things. Wondering if that makes me a monster. Tax deferment could have been something.

I’m working with a group representing independent restaurants this is what we need. foodpolicyaction.org/how-congress-c…

Restaurants are biggest 🇺🇸 employer after govt. 15m workers + farmers, suppliers, delivery drivers. Congress and WH must keep the industry functioning to feed first responders, hospitals, elderly, &vulnerable. Thx for your leadership Tom Colicchio Independent Restaurant Coalition Senator Chris Van Hollen

Thank you everyone for your incredible messages of support and encouragement.♥️ Many of you asked what it was like in the ER right now. I want to share a bit with you. Please RT: A Day in the Life of an ER Doc - A Brief Dispatch from the #COVID19 Frontline:

America's response to the coronavirus is the worst in the world, which is shocking and has a lot to do with a leader who is completely unfit, temperamentally and intellectually, for the job 1/

.Donald J. Trump President Donald J. Trump Please have a conversation with Tom Colicchio about the way to help the resturant industry.Nobody has work harder than him,understands bills, congress mechanics and how we can really be investing into solutions. #ChefsForAmerica

"Chicago immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. are eligible for all relief programs run by the city amid the coronavirus outbreak, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered Tuesday." Your move, D.C. wgntv.com/news/coronavir…

According to a new survey from James Beard Foundation, 4 out of 5 restaurant owners remain uncertain they can reopen once the pandemic passes. If it wasn’t clear before, it is certainly clear now: PPP DOES NOT WORK for independent restaurants. #SaveRestaurants saverestaurants.com/news-item/apri…

Lula C will be open for curbside pick up starting Thursday 5/28. On Monday you’ll be able to pre-order brunch and dinner packages as well as wine and beer via Tock. We’ll be serving some classics and some beautiful… instagram.com/p/CAirCgiBvYH/…

No hyperbole here: We are all teetering. No one is exempt. If we lose our city’s best restaurants (as we did with beloved Blackbird Restaurant this week), it erodes our attraction as a world class city. If we lose our neighborhood restaurants, it erodes the very fabric of our lives.

One of a kind Lula Cafe instagram.com/p/0lEOnpnlx6/

Gallery of the day: #Pastry #Chef Kelly Helgesen Lula Cafe Jason Hammel ow.ly/Oyfzu

My hometown. Yale Blue Green: Yale and @TheMADFeed will pilot a food industry leaders in sustainability program

All these kids with Kunz spoons that have no idea who Gray Kunz is

Powerful read in Lucky Peach by Lula Cafe's Jason Hammel on the crucial importance of money in the restaurant biz: platem.ag/1Hr0PuC

#risingpastrychef of year goes to Kelly Helgesen of Lula Cafe #banchetawards #jba CFF Chicago