"Food is a romantic business."
-- Allison Harris
On her last day of work, after that lunch shift when no customers came, Allison Harris ducked into the bakery, played a punk song on her phone and danced.
A friend joined her: feet kicking, arms pumping, heads bobbing until they were exhausted.
Allison wasn’t sure why. She just wanted to — needed to.
“Maybe,” she said later, “I was trying to dance away my fear.”
For weeks, she had seen it coming. Eateries in Seattle, San Francisco and New York had shut down because of the coronavirus. Business in Tampa Bay had been dwindling. The St. Petersburg restaurant where she waited tables, Baba, had gone to take-out only.
Then that day, March 19, the owners decided to close.
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