Restaurant house owners in SB and SLO counties may very well be eligible for grant cash
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Restaurant house owners in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties may very well be eligible for grants from the California Restaurant Basis’s Eating places Care Resilience Fund to assist companies from throughout the state with tools upgrades, worker retention and deferred upkeep, in keeping with SoCalGas.
These qualifying eating places positioned inside SoCalGas’ service space are inspired to use for a $3,000 grant from now via April 30.
To be eligible, restaurant house owners should personal lower than three items and earn lower than $3 million in income, in keeping with SoCalGas, with precedence given to eating places owned by girls and other people of shade.
Final yr, the fund awarded 318 grants to impartial restaurant house owners, a SoCalGas spokeswoman stated, noting that 65% of recipients had been women-owned and 83% particular person of color-owned.
SoCalGas in 2021 co-founded the Eating places Care Resilience Fund in partnership with the California Restaurant Basis to assist small companies recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, for which SoCalGas donated $525,000, the spokeswoman stated.
This yr, the fund has earmarked practically $1.5 million in small enterprise grants to donate, she stated, with $525,000 of that donated by SoCalGas.
“Eating places and the households and workers that run them confirmed unbelievable resilience and energy as they tailored their companies to serve all of us through the pandemic,” stated David Barrett, vp and basic counsel at SoCalGas and California Restaurant Basis board member.
“Final yr’s grants supplied important assist to native eating places as they struggled to maintain their doorways open,” he stated. “This yr, grant funds will present assist for kitchens or crews, whereas total supporting restaurant resiliency.”
Lisa André covers life-style and native information for Santa Ynez Valley Information and Lompoc Document, editions of the Santa Maria Occasions.
