L.A. restaurants in low-vaccine areas brace for new mandate hits

Restaurant owners in areas with low vaccination rates worry the new Los Angeles city proof-of-vaccination mandate will be another nail in the coffin.
Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • November 7, 2021
“Is this the beginning of the end?” Kim Prince asked during a recent phone call. “We have been in a period of pivot, pivot, pivot. I just want to fry chicken.” On Monday, Prince, who owns Hotville restaurant at the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw mall, and...
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