Rihanna Walton had worked in the service industry since they were 16 years old. When the pandemic struck, they were working as the bar manager for cocktail bar Tough Luck, mixing mezcal and whiskey drinks and developing the wine list for the mostly neighborhood crowd. In March 2020 they lost their job, like hundreds of thousands of other restaurant workers, but by June, when bars began reopening for outdoor dining, they returned to Tough Luck. They left around two weeks later. “I felt like we put in all the systems to make a safe experience and did everything in my power to execute it, but people weren’t ready to
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