All Sydney Gressel wanted was some pizza.
It was March 12, a few days before San Francisco issued its stay-at-home order mandating that all restaurants could only stay open for takeout and delivery. While restaurants, food trucks, and grocery stores are all within walking distance of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco where Gressel works as a pediatric nurse in the emergency department, she says at the time, the hospital was inundated with people. Her and her coworkers rarely had time to run out for food.
On that day, Gressel's friend Frank Barbieri asked how he could help. Gressel suggested Barbieri throw her and her coworkers a pizza party as a morale booster. Barbieri teamed up with his friend Ryan Sarver, who worked in the restaurant industry and knew it was suffering. (The pandemic would take a toll on the industry in the days, weeks, and months ahead)Some Bay Area restaurants had already starting closing. Read more...
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