Speaker unverified: belief

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…That's good. That there's some bright spots amidst a nationwide, maybe negative trend when it comes to permitting. I think when you're in any business, certainly the restaurant industry or even our line of work, I would argue, you have to be an optimist. You have to see the silver lining on the way out of how to get there, but it's a slog. I do think that one of the responsibilities we now have as a company, as we're a little bit bigger now, is to help on behalf, particularly of these small businesses, to represent them almost as a class and actually try to even the playing field a bit and make it a bit easier to actually be a small business. What do you argue for on behalf of small businesses? When you talk to someone in Washington, what are you saying?…

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