'Staying locally in the community is going to be really important,' this New York chef says. 'I think we're gonna see a lot more support of black-owned businesses.'
Chef Sam Branch and his wife Lisa Lloyd-Branch have been an integral part of serving traditional Jamaican fare in New York since 2013, with a brick and mortar pop-up in Williamsburg that recently shifted to a delivery-only model due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The business owners and parents of three young African American daughters told ABC News that they would gladly put the immediate success of their business on hold in the fight for racial justice and end to police brutality. "This past weekend, things started changing," chef Branch said."Things got a little rough, and I noticed how"It wasn't concerning as much as it would've been at any other time," Lloyd-Branch said thinking back to operations before the pandemic."Because of everything transpiring so quickly and things turning negative in some aspects, it wasn't our major concern. I think people not being focused on being consumers, I think was a rightful distraction.
The pair told ABC News they were unsure if any damage had been sustained by the protests to the pop-up at Artists and Fleas where they set up shop.
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