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00:00I don't know if it's that healthy to be in here when it's like this, knowing that we're
00:21not open tonight.
00:22We're not going to be open tomorrow night, and we haven't been open for two months.
00:28I have this anvil on my chest, not because I'm worried about my restaurants, of course
00:32I am.
00:33I'm scared to death.
00:35But I'm really worried about this industry going down.
00:45Time is of the essence here, and Senate is on recess.
00:48Look, I don't run the Senate, but I don't agree with people taking vacation when there's
00:54work to do.
00:55No industry in America has lost more revenue or jobs.
00:59I think the numbers are 11 million people that work in independent restaurants.
01:02If we don't get help, 65 to 80 percent of all independent restaurants across this country
01:06will close their doors.
01:09Every day the stakes get higher.
01:11Every day it gets more frightening and more suffocating.
01:15You have to wake up in the morning saying, okay, we're trying to save 500,000 restaurants
01:21and our own.
01:22What do I got to do?
01:25What do I got to do?
01:26What do I got to do?
01:27What do I got to do?