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D.C. restaurants struggle to stay open as pandemic relief dries up
Z Burger restaurant owner Peter Tabibian applied for a Paycheck Protection Program loan during the height of the pandemic to help keep his eateries in Tenleytown, Dupont Circle and Greenbelt afloat. Now, his handcrafted burger chain is grappling with inflation-driven surges in the cost of meat, rent and electricity, he says. “I didn’t raise my…