GRA Weekly
March 31, 2022
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Sippin' Local Polls Open
InsiderAdvantage Georgia/JAMES Magazine announces the 3rd annual SIPPIN' LOCAL poll highlighting a growing Georgia industry. Everyone is invited to vote for their favorite breweries, distilleries and wineries located across the state. The top 10 vote getters in each category will be listed in the May/June issue of JAMES Magazine, and the number one company in each category will be spotlighted in a feature article. Make sure to come back every day to vote for your favorites and share the poll with your followers, friends and family! If you don't see your favorite on the list, choose the "other" option and write it in. We will add it to the ballot.
*In partnership with the Georgia Restaurant Association, Georgia Craft Brewers Guild, Hospitality Business Network Foundation, Foodie Road Trip, Georgia Grown, Atlanta Beer and Wine Festivals and Georgia Distillers Association.
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We are onto the final stretch. Get a quick update of what bills of importance are moving and how they will impact your business from GRA President + CEO Karen Bremer. Watch Now.
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Georgia Department of Revenue | Sales & Use Tax Rates Effective April 1, 2022
Counties Impacted: Appling, Dekalb (in Atlanta), Fulton (in Atlanta), Haralson, Henry, Lamar, Madison, Monroe, Muscogee, Peach, Rabun, Spalding, Webster.
Atlanta opens five resource centers to support small businesses
AJC - Mayor Andre Dickens and Invest Atlanta CEO Eloisa Klementich made the announcement Monday in southwest Atlanta at Pittsburgh Yards, a shared workspace for the community off University Avenue. Dickens said that building is hosting one of the new centers. The mayor said the other centers are located at the Mary Parker Foundation on Campbellton Road; the Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RCIE) near the Atlanta University Center; the Goodwill of North Georgia on Metropolitan Parkway; and the iVIllage center on the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive corridor near the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA station. Read more.
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UGA Survey
We want to know your thoughts about oyster farming and oyster sales in Georgia! The University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government is surveying individuals involved in Georgia’s food service industry to understand how Georgia’s new oyster farming industry may benefit the local food service industry.
This survey will take up to 15 minutes to complete. Your survey responses are anonymous and will not be available to anyone outside the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Survey results will be presented as summaries so that individual responses will not be identified. We encourage you to share this survey with other food service industry professionals you know. Your input can help inform the future of oyster farming and sales in Georgia.
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New Program to Help Address Workforce Challenges
We're proud to announce that a new bill has been filed in DC—the Essential Workers for Economic Advancement Act or EWEA—thanks to the work of the National and State Restaurant Associations. If passed, the EWEA would create temporary, market-driven worker visas for workers to legally enter the United States from other countries to fill vacant positions in essential industries. And thanks to the leadership of the National Restaurant Association, which has been working on this bill for months, the program is specifically tailored to our industry with restaurants getting priority for 25% of the new visas. It’s not a silver bullet to our labor challenges by any means, but it’s a great example of the fact that we are engaged in policymaking to make a tangible difference in the issues that matter to you. Read more.
RRF Replenishment Update
There is a bipartisan group of lawmakers in DC working to try and resurrect the COVID-19 healthcare funding that was removed from the big budget bill that recently passed. If a deal comes together on that funding, then it’s possible an RRF replenishment amendment will be offered to it.
We want to be very honest with you that we don’t anticipate an RRF amendment passing at this time because the two sides of the political aisle strongly disagree about the way to pay for RRF replenishment. Plus, many other costly amendments are also expected to be offered, making it more difficult for Congress to say yes to any one of them. But please rest assured that we are ready and, if any opportunity presents itself—even an amendment vote on RRF replenishment—we will use every tool available to us to urge its passage. We know small and independent restaurants need and deserve this funding, and so we will continue to give this effort everything we’ve got. Therefore, please stay tuned over the next week or so, in case we put out an urgent call to action.
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