Take it from someone who has mastered the art of the scramble.

It's near noon on the day of the Rose Bowl, and Bill Young, the short-order cook at Tommy's Restaurant in Grand Island, proclaims it's a relatively slow day.

Zoom, Zoom and Zoom. Masks, masks and masks. Sourdough starter and short-order cooking. In these “troubled times,” in our sweat pants and the isolation we endure “out of an abundance of caution,” ...