Out of Work and Tips, Restaurant Workers Face Their Own Coronavirus Crisis

By: Zariah McInnis

An empty bar in Sioux Falls, S.D., this week. As workers reel from the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis, tipped employees who lack a cash cushion are especially vulnerable.

PHOTO: ERIN BORMETT/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many people are out of work. Many are bartenders, who were currently making an income for themselves. No with the bar and restaurants closed they are unemployed and cant serve drinks at all.

The bill being passed through congress this week is set to help the unemployed. It is said to give $600 to unemployes on weekly benefits, but bartender were typilcally making $450 in one night. For them to adjust it gone be hard and they are getting hit the hardest.