LA’s Sugarfish vows to retain all 600 workers for the entirety of the pandemic (Via EaterLA)
, and the latter offered an earlier-than-others look at what was coming down the line from COVID-19-stricken Italy. Until the start of the pandemic, Uovo made its fully handmade pastas in Northern Italy and flew the product over for its restaurants here. Since the transport has become unfeasible due to the pandemic, Uovo has been producing pasta locally in LA.
When combined with the Uovo and HiHo Cheeseburger operations, the plan to save every job would total out to more than 700 people across the three companies. Greenberg says that the current plan hasn’t been perfect — executives and managers have made tough decisions about their own pay, and not everyone is getting as many hours as they may have been before — but it is sustainable. For now. “It is our intent to keep everyone through this, but I can’t know that we will,” says Greenberg.
For the time being, those jobs remain in place. “If things continue to run like this,” says Greenberg, “or at some point
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