eatery

One day, around 100 crew members were asked to dine at a grab-and-go eatery.

Another group, the Altadena Dining Club, formed to try to keep local eateries afloat amid a drop in foot traffic around town.

"No one wants a war," said a woman surnamed Chen, whose guesthouse and eatery have a view of Xiamen's shiny skyscrapers.

The recent resilience of independent eateries has helped them regain some lost market share.

Made up of local residents wanting to save eateries that survived the fire, the dining club is the brainchild of Brooke Lohman-Janz, a displaced renter determined to preserve the fabric of Altadena.