How the Pandemic Impacted Two Restaurant Openings in Brooklyn and L.A.

When Keavy Landreth and Stephanie Gallardo, the owners of the new bakery/café Love, Nelly, in Brooklyn, conceived of the project more than a year ago, it was a different time. Landreth, a co-owner of Butter & Scotch, a bar/bakery also in Brooklyn, and Gallardo, its general manager, were thinking of ways they could expand the sliver of a place, which had become wildly popular for its...