A Café Owner in Seattle Hopes He’s “Too Small to Fail”

Jun.02 — Zack Bolotin opened Porchlight Coffee & Records in 2009. Early in the pandemic, he realized that government loan programs weren’t going to be of much use. “No one’s really going to do much to help out with this other than our customers,” he says. But they may be enough. “I’ve repeatedly made the joke that we’re too small to fail.”


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