The American Rescue Plan Act

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.

Restaurant Revitalization Fund Program Guide – This is a guide that goes into detail on what the funds can be used for and who is eligible for a grant.

Restaurant Revitalization Fund Sample Application – This is a PDF of the questions that eligible companies will need to fill out once the application officially goes live on the SBA portal.

The US Small Business Administration (SBA) is administering the program. The SBA opened applications at 12 noon EST on Monday, May 3, 2021. For detailed information on the program, please visit the SBA Restaurant Revitalization Fund site. 

Squirrel is supporting this program by providing information on how to apply for a grant through the SBA Portal, including how to access 2020 and 2019 sales data through your Squirrel POS.

You will need to apply via the SBA Portal

How to Access Your Data for the Application

If you need assistance please fill out the form and our Customer Success team will assist you in gathering the information you need.

1. Reporting is accessed via the Squirrel Back Office. On your back office PC, launch the Squirrel Back Office.
2. In the Squirrel Back Office, click on Reports
3. Choose Sales Reports > Daily Sales Report
4. Set your Date Range from 1/1/2019 and 12/31/2019
5. In the Gross or Net dropdown, set to Gross
6. Print or Export the Report
7. Rerun the report changing the Date Range to 1/1/2020 and 12/31/2020 for a 2020 report.
   
   

Detailed Knowledge Base Articles around reporting are available on the Customer Portal.

A Detailed Program FAQ is Available for Download