Like many small businesses in downtown Seattle, the Pure Food Fish Market has had to adjust to an economy that's still missing some of its pre-COVID-19 players.
While cruise passengers and other tourists are back to snapping up Pure Food's fresh salmon and halibut and crab, the office workers who used to come to the Pike Place Market fish shop before heading home have been largely absent.
So much so that owners Carlee Hollenbeck and Isaac Behar have changed their schedule. Pure Food, which for 70 years stayed open till 6 p.m. for commuter sales, now closes at 5 because office workers "just aren't showing up as often," Hollenbeck says.
