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      Your favorite Michigan shop or restaurant might close forever. Help save it.
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    <span>Gift cards help "flatten the curve" of lost income from COVID-19.</span>
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      Thank you for helping keep your favorite Michigan restaurants and shops afloat during COVID-19.
      There are now two ways you can help:
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        <h3>Option 1: Support a Small Business</h3>
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          <li>Find your favorite <span class="post-splash-option-emphasis">Michigan business</span> below.</li>
          <li><span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-2">Buy gift cards for yourself, family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc.</span></li>
          <li><span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-3">All proceeds go directly to the small business to help it stay afloat!</span></li>
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        <h3>Option 2: Support a Small Business AND Help Feed Frontline Workers</h3>
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          <li>Find your favorite <span class="post-splash-option-emphasis">Ann Arbor restaurant</span> below.</li>
          <li><span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-2">Donate gift cards to Michigan Medicine. When purchasing a gift card, please indicate</span>:
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              <li>Recipient name = <span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-2">Michigan Medicine</span></li>
              <li>Recipient email address = <span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-2">GiftCards@umich.edu</span></li>
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          <li><span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-3">All proceeds go directly to the Ann Arbor restaurant to help it stay afloat!</span></li>
          <li><span class="post-splash-option-emphasis-3">Gift cards will be used to buy meals for the frontline hospital workers working hard to keep us healthy and safe!</span></li>
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    <h1>Michigan Businesses</h1>
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      <h1>Our duty as loyal customers</h1>
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        Our small businesses need us more than ever. Even though we can’t leave home, we can still support local restaurants by buying gift cards. It’s basically a mini-loan, so buy one now and make a plan to use it later.
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      <h2>3 weeks can kill a business</h2>
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        Restaurants have tons of fixed costs: rent, labor, loan repayments, insurance, supplies, repairs – the list goes on. Even successful restaurants have razor thin margins of 3-5%, and a third have struggled to pay employees at least once. For some, the loss of business due to COVID-19 could tip the balance into bankruptcy.
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