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Jobless Toll Mounts As Hotels Furlough, Eateries Close an Estimated 35,000 Tourism, Hospitality Workers Already Temporarily Laid Off Public Records & Notices Monitoring local real View a complete estate since 1968 day’s public records Subscribe Presented by and notices today for our at memphisdailynews.com. free report www.chandlerreports.com Wednesday, March 25, 2020 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 135 | No. 48 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ COVID-19 Jobless toll mounts as hotels furlough, eateries close An estimated 35,000 tourism, hospitality workers already temporarily laid off WAYNE RISHER Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Coronavirus has left the Memphis tourist industry “in shambles” and thrown at least 35,000 people out of work so far, the city’s tourism chief said Monday. Memphis Tourism president and chief executive Kevin Kane made the statements after city officials again ratcheted down the ability of people to move around the city. Kane said he was “conservatively” estimating 75% of restaurant and hotel workers were temporarily out of work and candidates for unemployment benefits. A state Department of Labor and Workforce De- velopment spokesman said a weekly tally of statewide joblessness wouldn’t be available until Friday. Caritas Volunteer Emmy Miller takes an order from Brodrick Peete in Midtown on Monday. (Ziggy Tucker/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) Meanwhile, hotels including The Peabody and The Guesthouse at Graceland were operating with bare- bones staffing after furloughing employees. The Memphis job actions came as national chains Restaurant workers fi nd friends started furloughs that are expected to run into the hun- dreds of thousands. “I think we’re north of 35,000 tourism and hospital- ity employees who are laid off today,” Kane said. – and a meal – at Caritas “The hospitality industry is in shambles. We’ve never seen hotels with 10% occupancy or less. We’ve seen res- JENNIFER BIGGS news, concerned about COVID-19 and community.” taurants shutting down en masse,” Kane said. Courtesy of The Daily Memphian thinking about Caritas Community So they turned around and headed Tourism is responsible for about $3.5 billion in direct Spencer and Kristin McMillin Center, where Kristin is the develop- west to home. On the way, they came spending in Memphis and Shelby County and employs were on their way to Asheville, North ment director and Spencer was until up with the Restaurant Workers Unity more than 50,000. The larger region including North Carolina, in an RV on March 13. They recently the executive chef in the café, Project, a plan that continued to evolve Mississippi and eastern Arkansas lists about 69,000 planned for a relaxing trip, dinners at the heart of the center where anyone as Memphis restaurants started shut- hospitality industry employees. local restaurants in the town they keep eats, regardless of their ability to pay, ting down in droves. Then all dining Kane said there were “very few” visitors still in the trying to call home. and where festive monthly wine din- rooms were temporarily shuttered by city and Monday’s shelter-in-place order from the city, But they came back to Memphis. ners featuring local chefs are a big Mayor Jim Strickland on Thursday. dubbed Safer at Home, would “probably lock people “When we got to Pigeon Forge, draw. Now Caritas, which Onie Johns even deeper inside their homes.” where we were going to stop for a few “It really got us thinking, ‘What opened in 2006 in a former Mason- The Memphis tourist attraction Graceland and the days, things had gotten really intense,” can we do to help?’” Kristin said. “It’s ic Lodge at Harvard and Merton in Spencer said. not only the homeless that will be HOSPITALITY CONTINUED ON P2 They were keeping up with the suffering, but the whole restaurant CARITAS CONTINUED ON P2 INSIDE Public Records ................ 4 Public Notices ................. 8 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Marriage licenses are unavailable ©2020 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company while Shelby County Clerk’s O ce Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 135th year information since 1968 reviews internal policies for its digital Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information platforms. Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Wednesday, March 25, 2020 CARITAS CONTINUED FROM P1 Binghampton, is serving free meals to out-of-work restaurant employees and anyone else who needs one. “We’re not charging anyone We’re not charging right now,” Spencer said. “If some- anyone right now. If one wants to help, they can put money in the donation jar or go someone wants to help, to the website and make a dona- they can put money in tion there.” Some restaurants were still the donation jar or go to open when they went to work the website and make a March 16, with Spencer back in donation there.” the kitchen to help out. They had decided to shut the dining room “–Spencer McMillin and try curbside, still offering res- taurant workers a free meal, but it didn’t take. By Thursday, they Vault who formerly worked at planned to go through the food Caritas, came in with gallons of Kathleen Barth and Jose Upegui prepare orders in at Caritas on Monday. (Ziggy Tucker/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) they had left and shut the doors. crawfish soup that will be on Tues- “But by then people heard day’s menu. about what we were doing, and it “I call it my crawfish boil glass of iced tea. As always, the would be nice for me to have As for Spencer, who left as was also the day they shut down soup,” he said. “It’s basically the menu will vary daily. But now some food for her when she gets executive chef a few months ago all the dining rooms,” Spencer same ingredients, but in a cream it will depend on what’s been home,” he said. “I got a Cobb sal- to work on a Caritas cookbook, said. “And all of a sudden, every- soup. donated. ad and a cheeseburger and we’ll he’s back in the kitchen for the one wants to help — chefs, res- “I’ll bring something by as of- “Every food company, every split them.” duration, cooking and helping taurants, farmers. We have an ten as I can. Caritas has a big place restaurateur, everyone I’ve talk- Sherianne Bangham was a to serve meals from the walk-up abundance.” in my heart. It was here for me at ed to has all said the same thing: server at Char until the restau- windows Monday through Friday, The Rendezvous donated the right time and I volunteer here What do you need? What do you rant let everyone except manag- 11 a.m.-2 p.m. more than 200 pounds of pork as much as I can.” need?” Spencer said. ers go on Thursday. She’s also a “When you’re out of work and and chicken, so you can get Ren- Steph Cook, who recently Greg Strope is a chef at Riz- Caritas regular, a diner who pays you can get a good meal free, well, dezvous nachos at Caritas. A bin closed down Rawk ‘n Grub inside zo’s, and is one of a small number for two meals when she buys one, that’s $10 or so a day you don’t with 200 pounds of sweet potatoes Growlers because of COVID-19, of restaurant employees who still at the café. It’s a practice that have to spend and that adds up,” is sitting in the pantry, donated stopped in to see what he could has a job as Rizzo’s is doing curb- many adopt and part of the way Spencer said. “So yeah, it looks by a local farmer. Around lunch do. He’ll be in the kitchen with side and limited delivery. The the center, a nonprofit, collects like I’m working here again,” he on Monday, someone dropped off Spencer on Wednesday. senior employee couldn’t get by funds. said. bags and bags of deli meat and “That day, we’ll probably do on the reduced hours, so Strope “I love it here and I’ve always And they’ll keep working as cheese. Blues City Donuts were be- a Rawk ‘n Grub theme,” Spencer took the job. He was at Caritas on paid it forward,” she said. “I put a long as they can, Kristin said. ing handed out with every order, said. Monday to pick up lunch and put little money in the jar today. It’s “Unless our board or the gov- because they delivered about 12 On Monday, folks could get a donation in the jar. not as much, but it’s a little. There ernment shuts us down, we’ll be dozen Monday morning. cheeseburgers, a Cobb salad, “The old lady is out running are people who are a lot worse off here as long as we’re needed,” Derk Meitzler, chef at The soup, a vegetable plate and a cold some errands and I thought it than me.” she said. HOSPITALITY CONTINUED FROM P1 short-term jobs created by the pandemic. I SHOULD Hilton said furloughed employees adjoining hotel in Whitehaven furloughed would be “given direct access and in an undisclosed number of employees af- some cases expedited access” to jobs with ter Graceland temporarily closed due to companies that need workers to combat PROBABLY coronavirus. coronavirus, including Albertsons, Ama- Elvis Presley Enterprises announced zon, CVS, Lidl, Sunrise Senior Living and Friday it was closing the attraction at Walgreens. GET A least from Saturday, March 21 through Kane said some of the larger hotels April 3. The 450-room hotel remained including The Peabody and Guest House open Monday.
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