Small Business Under Siege

Dimo's Pizza owner transformed his ovens to produce face shields for frontline workers and received help from his landlords to stay afloat amid ongoing restrictions.

Small businesses are being forced to play regulatory roulette – comply with absurd authoritarian assertions that leave them treading water or drowning forever.

North Carolina's small businesses and restaurants ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic's economic devastation are standing up to Congress. 

Los Angeles County's ban on outdoor dining can remain in place until early February, the California 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled. 

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to reinstate stay-at-home orders and prohibit outdoor dining on Dec. 6 dealt a shattering blow to already-wounded restaurants like Covina's Bread & Barley.

Leo Keka, the owner of Alba Prime Steak & Seafood in Quincy and Alba on 53 in Hanover, had already worried about making enough before the latest restrictions.

CKE Restaurants former CEO Andrew Puzder stressed that the best stimulus for small businesses is customers

Arizona small business owner Kevin Redden said on Sunday that “the world was lifted off my shoulders,” after getting financial support from “The Barstool Fund” on Christmas.

2020 was shaping up to be a lucrative year for a quintessential mom-and-pop fairytale business in the party rental industry until they "lost it all" to coronavirus restrictions.

Some Pennsylvania restaurant owners are defying the state's coronavirus restrictions temporarily banning indoor dining.

Marie Liburdi, who owned and lost Teaching Toys as well as one of her Montessori schools during the pandemic, decided to donate everything in her store.

The imposed 10 p.m. curfew under short notice was the "breaking point" for a New York restaurant owner to decide to leave the state for Florida, evading the burdensome coronavirus restrictions.

A restaurant owner mocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with an Instagram video showing him and his staff eating outside in a blizzard, as a criticism of the latest coronavirus lockdown.

Small business owners and their employees have suffered disproportionately from government shutdowns and mandates at every stage of the coronavirus pandemic.

We need to be doing everything in our power to maintain the 100,000 restaurant jobs that have come back to New York City since the pandemic hit. 

Most small-business owners in the United States believe the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is still ahead of them, with half saying their operations would permanently close within a year unless the business environment improves, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said on Tuesday.

In nearly every state throughout the country, gyms were the first businesses that were forced to shut down by the government and were one of the last to reopen.

The group, known as the ReOpen Minnesota Coalition, is calling on businesses in rural Minnesota to reopen Wednesday and for businesses in the Twin Cities metro area to reopen Friday.

The New York State Latino Restaurant, Bar & Lounge Association, which hosted the rally, is calling for rent and insurance relief, grants and loans through the Paycheck Protection Program, local and state funding programs and grants as well as for "help from our local leaders."

A tense video has emerged purportedly showing a California restaurant owner asking public health inspectors “are you going to pay my rent?” during a recent dispute over coronavirus prevention restrictions.