With bars and restaurants closed, thousands of bartenders and servers across the state are uncertain about the future of their jobs.

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Colleen Nealon, a bartender at Porta in Asbury Park created the idea, along with the Central Jersey chapter of the United States Bartending Guild, to create a virtual tip jar to allow people to donate to bartenders and restaurant servers who are out of work.

More information about the "virtual tip jar" can be found here.