How neighborhood restaurants are surviving COVID-19

What does it mean to be a neighborhood restaurant in the middle of a pandemic? We checked in with four decades-old restaurants to see how they're surviving.
Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • December 9, 2020
On a recent afternoon, in the corner of a red leather booth at the Serving Spoon in Inglewood, owners Angela and JC Johnson counted their blessings. “After all that’s happened, we realize we have zero control over everything,” Angela says. “We are...
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