⁍ Thousands of small businesses around the country are teetering on the brink of failure.
⁍ The coronavirus pandemic has affected different sectors of the economy.
⁍ Small businesses say time and money are running out fast.

– When Ayeshah Abuelhiga first opened her pop-up restaurant, Mason Dixie Biscuit Co., six years ago, it was the next step on her path to attaining the American Dream. But now, in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, she has had to make the wrenching decision that thousands of small business owners across the US have been forced to make: to close her doors for good. A first-generation American who grew up in public housing and worked multiple jobs to put herself through college, Abuelhiga was still working a corporate job when she launched the Kickstarter campaign that helped her finance the launch of the Mason Dixie Biscuit Co. pop-up shop in 2014. It wasn’t entirely clear there would be a market for her comfort food-driven biscuit breakfast sandwiches in health-conscious Washington, DC, but customers stood in lines that stretched for blocks—even as locations shifted. “We had lines all the way down to the Costco for like two miles long and it was as if that opening day lasted a month and a half,’ Abuelhiga recalled. “It was insane.” The accolades, a permanent brick-and-mortar restaurant location, and, most importantly, customer loyalty followed. The location—in DC’s Shaw neighborhood

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/business/bunkers-new-zealand-intl-hnk/index.html