For Episode 14, our Imbibe 75 coverage continues with a conversation with Maxwell Britten—a bartender, bar owner, and co-founder of THIRST Group—and New York State Assemblymember Robert Carroll, about some of the challenges bars and restaurants are facing related to insurance coverage amid the pandemic.
This year’s Imbibe 75 highlights people, businesses, and organizations working to build a better drinks world. One of these organizations is THIRST Group (The Hospitality Industry Re-Imagined Security Trust), an advocacy group composed of bar owners, craft distillers, and other hospitality professionals, that tackles pandemic-related insurance coverage. For this episode of Radio Imbibe, we talk with one of THIRST Group’s co-founders and New York organizers, Maxwell Britten, a bartender and bar owner who’s previously worked with establishments including Maison Premiere and The Django at the Roxy Hotel; and New York State Assemblymember Robert Carroll (44th District), who introduced a bill earlier this year that would require business interruption insurance to cover disease outbreaks such as the COVID pandemic.
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