"Employing a small staff from day one has been an important overhead-saving measure for first-time restaurateurs Michelle Serafin and Claire Risoli as well. The two signed a lease in February and were ready to welcome diners into their 90-seat Mexican restaurant Pocha in Highland Park, complete with a live mariachi band and Yucatan bar bites, when shelter-in-place orders came down." - Cathy Chaplin