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LA starts shutting down due to coronavirus outbreak

Even for a rainy day, Jared Koziak said he could not remember seeing his restaurant so empty. “Normally, we would at least have a couple of people in,” says Koziak, who works as a server at Sawyer restaurant in Silver Lake.

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By Steve Chiotakis • Mar 17, 2020 • 1 min read

Even for a rainy day, Jared Koziak said he could not remember seeing his restaurant so empty.

But as fears continue to mount from the spread of the novel coronavirus, cities and counties across California are taking drastic steps.

For the remainder of March, the dining room at Sawyer will look just like it did last Saturday morning: empty, along with every other restaurant in the city, because of an order by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.

“We cater to a lot of restaurants. We sell microgreens to them, and they are slowing down,” said Nick Long, who works with Metro Greens. “So that is where the anxiety level has come up a little bit.”

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