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"A studio-sized Brooklyn tiki bar that was tightly packed pre-pandemic and pivoted during indoor restrictions to selling containers of pina colada and delivering jugs of mai tai by bike under temporary to-go liquor rules; this helped preserve community ties with regular neighbors rather than turning the space into a liquor store. The abrupt end of to-go sales is a financial setback for a very small business and — perhaps more importantly — risks losing the close relationships built with regular customers." - Elazar Sontag