next, i'd like to introduce laurie thomas, executive director, golden gate restaurant association. go ahead, laurie. >> am i unmuted? >> you are. >> can you hear me? thank you for asking me to join you. and thank you to everybody out there. i'm going to pivot a little bit from my prepared remarks. as i listen to carlos and to mark, i think we want to maybe take a different direction with what i was going to talk about. just kick me off when i hit five minutes, okay. so first and foremost, i do want to second -- a thank you to the office of economic workforce development, the team and everybody there. and how closely they've been working with us in the business community and the city in general to delay the gross receipts tax payments until next year, under $25 million in gross receipts, to delay the license fees, to help with the grants and the loans. we'll come back to something carlos said. and i can reassure him it's certainly nothing to do with hispanic or not. i didn't make the lottery for my small restaurant. it's just more demand than supply problem that we have. there's so m