- July 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Bar and restaurant owners are describing the recent violence on Pittsburgh’s South Side as anxiety-inducing and bad for business.
KDKA’s Meghan Schiller talked with business owners about why they’re fearful post-lockdown behaviors will hurt their bottom lines.
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“That’s a possibility for sure,” said Joshua Wirwas, the manager at Fat Heads. “If it gets bad enough.”
The sounds of the sax filled the corner of 18th Street Friday, hours after gunshots rang across East Carson Street in an overnight triple shooting.
Business owners tell KDKA they fear the shootings will keep customers away.
“We had this pandemic keeping people in the house, and now we don’t need people keeping people in the house,” said Averill “Apple” Grimes, the kitchen manager at Fat Heads.
At Fat Heads, they’re using dumpsters to block off the parking lots to keep the outside late-night…
