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A Small Business Owner's Dilemma

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Georgia has confirmed more than 24,000 cases of COVID-19 and tallied close to 1,000 deaths from the disease. However, Governor Brian Kemp is still allowing a number of the state’s businesses to reopen this week, citing an increased capacity for testing and hospitalizations. Employers, for their part, have been left in a lurch. How do small business owners reopen? Should they? And, if an owner chooses to remain shuttered, can it count on the government for help? Guest: Christopher Escobar, owner of the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When I called up Chris Escobar, he was at work in downtown Atlanta.

0:31.0

He owns an old movie theater called the Plaza.

0:34.0

It's got one of those big marquees and a neon sign.

0:38.0

But right now, there's no one buying popcorn, no projector flickering.

0:43.0

Where are you sitting?

0:46.0

I keep oscillating between, I'm sitting at a little high-boy table in front of the bar area.

0:51.0

Just past the concession stand.

0:53.0

But I'm walking around a little bit as I tend to do while I'm having conversations about this whole situation.

0:59.0

And I pace, and I'll walk up and down the aisles of the empty auditorium.

1:04.0

This whole situation is the coronavirus, of course.

1:08.0

The plaza's been closed for more than a month.

1:11.0

It feels like the room misses people to be here, honestly.

1:16.0

Yeah, it feels like you miss people, too.

1:18.0

I do. I really do.

1:26.0

I heard the theaters known for the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

1:29.0

We are. So we're not just known.

1:31.0

It's become an Atlanta tradition. It's on the bucket list.

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