‘Missing That Part Of My Identity:’ A Server Looks For New Paths After His Restaurant Closes

It’s been about a month since restaurants in Atlanta began closing or shifting their business strategies in response to the new coronavirus.

Jay Norris was a server at Golden Eagle, a restaurant in Atlanta’s Reynoldstown neighborhood that closed in mid-March. Now, for the first time in his adult life, he says, he’s unemployed.

“The first week and a half, it felt very surreal,” he says. “It’s like, I personally am dealing with this crisis, and then I think of everyone in the world also dealing with this crisis.”