The American Rescue Plan Act established the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) to provide funding to help restaurants and other eligible businesses keep their doors open. This program will provide restaurants with funding equal to their pandemic-related revenue loss up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location. Recipients are not required to repay the funding as long as funds are used for eligible uses no later than March 11, 2023.

The SBA approved 100,650 applications totally $28.6B worth of RRF grants in the three short weeks the program was open to the priority groups (women, veterans, and socially and economically disadvantaged), which resulted in the program running out of money before the non-priority groups could even apply. Overall, the SBA reported that it has received $65B in applications from 266,000 applicants. The Democrats in the House have sponsored the Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act of 2021 to provide RRF grants to those who applied but did not receive funding, but the RRF Replenishment Act has not found a receptive audience in the Senate.

Over 1,800 food service businesses in the U.S. received grants of $2,000,000 to $10,000,000, which we list in the table below:

RRF Grants of $2 Million+