Hires, haircuts and hydration: Fla. store gives food service workers jobs

摘要

Louis Vera worked in restaurants before becoming a car dealer and knows about living paycheck to paycheck. So when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Vera, CEO of Vera Cadillac-Buick-GMC in Pembroke Pines, Fla., north of Miami, gave temporary jobs at his dealership to 10 people from the restaurant and hospitality industries that weren't working. "One of them, she owns a business that she had just opened two weeks before they had to shut down and it does little doughnuts, little dessert things or pastry things," Vera said. "One owned a Lebanese restaurant. She had to close down. The other five or six of them were bartenders, either at AmericanAirlines Arena, Hard Rock Stadium or Hard Rock Casino."