KEY POINTS
  • Restaurant owners Stephanie Bonin and Keith Arnold were worried in March 2020 that they would be ruined financially.
  • Faced with the need to shut down their restaurant due to Covid-19, Bonin worried how her staff would survive financially.
  • She started a Change.org petition for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks that has just crossed 3 million signatures. While the pandemic has evolved, the financial need has stayed constant, she said.
A worker installs U.S. flags as part of a Covid-19 memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Jan.18, 2021.

When the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in March 2020, Stephanie Bonin and her husband, Keith Arnold, co-owners of a Denver restaurant, worried they would face financial disaster.

The crisis prompted them to close Duo Restaurant, which serves farm-to-table contemporary American cuisine.