Restaurant workers are frontline workers. While the risks they encounter by doing their jobs are imminent, there has been no immediate policy change to ensure they earn federally-mandated hazard or premium pay, on top of safety measures and life-saving PPE to protect them from the coronavirus.
As long as employers are receiving federal tax dollars to keep their businesses running, they must, in turn, ensure fair and living wages for the people who help keep that business afloat. Hazard pay must be sufficient to ensure that restaurant workers being paid less than a living wage are adequately and properly compensated.