What once decorated the walls has now become a saving grace for staff at a Florida pub during the coronavirus pandemic. Over the years, it became a tradition for patrons of Hott Leggz bar in Fort Lauderdale to write notes on dollar bills and staple them to the walls.
When times got rough during the virus outbreak, the owners had to lay off all but three of their staff members — but then they got an idea on how to help out. “We were like, there’s literally money on the walls, so let’s donate it all to the employees,” co-owner Juliana Sodre told local radio station DISRN. “We always had a running joke that if something went wrong with the bar, at least we had worst-case-scenario money.