Dear Friends,

As a big part of the independent restaurant industry here in New Jersey we have watched too many friends close their businesses, one by one, and then entire towns in one fell swoop. Some forever, some we don't know for how long.

We need help from the government and the insurance companies, right now! Without restaurants open we would be unable to employ our amazing talented staff. Without restaurants purveyors cannot survive. Without purveyors, farmers and processors cannot survive. Without farmers, nobody can survive! A true trickle down effect. 

In New Jersey restaurants employ almost 350k and generate over 18 billion a year, and take up 8% of the jobs here in the state. The spread of COVID-19 has made citizens vulnerable across NJ, across the country, and few are as unprotected as those in the hospitality industry. Without decisive and immediate action from the government, we will not survive these restaurant and bar closures. Small businesses like ours need an immediate actionable plan for workers in our industry.

If we do nothing, the next crisis will be even more deadly than the Coronavirus: the supply chain will be broken, and people will starve.

Please join us in asking, requesting, begging the government to act in 2 ways:

1) Save the small independent food business industry, the same way it just helped the airline industry with a $50 billion bailout.

2) Demand that the insurance companies compensate food enterprises under their business interruption policies. All of them have excluded, since SARS, certain types of disasters — specifically communicable diseases, from their policies. We need the government to demand that this small print be eliminated.

Please join us and click the button below to sign this petition.

xoxo Heirloom Kitchen