Jeremiah Stone isn’t sure if his NYC restaurants will survive COVID-19. But he’s going to support the people protesting for George Floyd for as long as he can.
, a Minneapolis-based organization focused on decreasing funding towards police and increasing community-based safety measures. They were one of the first restaurant owners I saw do this; since then, many more have pledged donations. These efforts feel especially poignant given how much. I imagined that this small act was a big thing for Stone and von Hauske’s little restaurant group.
I saw it on social media, this image of someone with their knee on someone’s neck. Within a few seconds of seeing it, you could feel the oppression, even if you didn’t read the story. I was pretty shocked, but unfortunately I knew this kind of police behavior was so common—so common that an incident like this was recorded and being shown on every news outlet.
I’m a cook. It’s what I’ve been doing for the last 16 years, and it’s all I know. I didn’t even go to college. I don’t feel like I’m the person to affect policy change or something like that. But I know I can make food. I know we can control the money we make from that food and have it go to people who need it. So I started to think about what we can do as a small business that’s obviously struggling. We don’t have a lot that we can offer.
So last week, I called Fabián and Daryl [Nuhn], our partner at Peoples, and asked them, “What do you think about donating the money that we make from the weekend to the
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