On March 16, 2020, Gov. Kate Brown announced that dining rooms across the state would shut down indefinitely. As COVID-19 cases started to climb in Oregon, our neighbor to the north, Washington, was already battling a monster, trying to contain the rapidly spreading outbreaks across the state. Oregon’s onsite dining ban, while seen as a necessity and requested by a number of restaurant owners, brought one of the state’s largest industries to a standstill. More than 80 percent of Oregon’s restaurant workers were out of work in a matter of weeks, if not days. Those who kept their jobs were working constantly, trying to navigate takeout, how to shift
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