A Seattle Restaurant Redesigns for Social Distancing

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The One Year, One Neighborhood series follows small businesses in the Pike/Pine corridor in Seattle, the first coronavirus hot spot in the U.S., to get a sense of what cities will look like as they reopen.

Makini Howell is a chef whose plant-based menus have made her restaurants Plum Bistro and Plum Chopped a popular draw in Seattle. She’s been using some of the funds she secured through the federal Paycheck Protection Program to hire back staff, who are remodeling her flagship for the era of social distancing. “Some people are saying I’m remodeling for an industry that might not come back, and I realize that,” she says. “But, you know, I’ve always been a survivor and a fighter, and I know that we will come back.”

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