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San Jose, California - May 20: Jorge Vargas, a former server at Black Angus Steakhouse, cried while explaining the hardship he's endured throughout his unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic as he waited in a breadline at Hunger at Home, a nonprofit founded at first to help other organizations feed clients with surplus food from the hospitality industry. (Dylan Bouscher/Bay Area News Group)
San Jose, California – May 20: Jorge Vargas, a former server at Black Angus Steakhouse, cried while explaining the hardship he’s endured throughout his unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic as he waited in a breadline at Hunger at Home, a nonprofit founded at first to help other organizations feed clients with surplus food from the hospitality industry. (Dylan Bouscher/Bay Area News Group)

Re: “How coronavirus created the Bay Area’s new mile-long breadlines” (Mercurynews.com):

On the front page of your May 21 paper, I thought I saw a face that seemed familiar. In reading the caption under the photo, I noted it was Jorge Vargas, a person who had served us several times at the Black Angus Restaurant both in Milpitas and at the-now closed Sunnyvale location.

He was, and still is, an excellent server who always did a very good job of making our visit pleasant. I feel very bad for him and his family. He is in a food line through no fault of his own. It is due to circumstances beyond his control.

I am not a social media person; however, I would appreciate knowing how I can offer at least some support to him and his family.

Robert Bergey
Santa Clara

 

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