- The COVID-19 pandemic — so deadly for so many — proved a perfect time to open a new restaurant for a select group of entrepreneurs who bravely chose “hope” over fear.
- He audaciously opened a sprawling 7,500-square-foot Mediterranean steakhouse, Alba on 53, in Hanover, Massachusetts, in August 2020, while executive mandates and many consumers crippled the state were gripped by fear.
- Around 90,000 eateries around the country closed because of the pandemic.
