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To: Governor Murphy
Opening New Jersey Bars an Restaurants before June
If you wait until June to open bars and restaurants, we will not withstand this. It's killing us; not only the bar and restaurant owners but the staff as well. This is many servers and bartenders main income and a lot of them got denied from unemployment. I'm a bartender who was denied unemployment and this is my main source of income and if this goes until June, the bar I work at will loose our state liquor license. If you don't use or lease your license for 90 days, you lose it on top of the financial hardship. There are many ways restaurants can open while being safe and following rules. We can remove tables to comply with the distancing, and can only allow for a certain amount of people in at a time, limit hours of business, and having the sanitation in check better than what the grocery stores are doing.
Why is this important?
For me and many of these servers and bartenders as well as businesses owners , this is our livelihood. We have absolutely NO money coming in but still have to pay our state and federal taxes along with utilities, insurance, etc. Please reconsider this.