Dozens of local business owners are getting a spotlight for the District’s Black Restaurant Week campaign, which is taking place across the nation’s capital and surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties now through July 27.
The organization behind Black Restaurant Week offers small, minority-owned businesses with marketing and brand awareness. The organization does not take any cut of sales earned during the campaign.
“They’re actually able to see year over year, the sales go up during this period because essentially new traffic’s coming in,” said Falayn Ferrell, the managing partner for Black Restaurant Week. “It’s bringing new dollars in, and we’re not taking any percentage of that.”…