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By David McLaughlin, Naomi Nix, and Mark Niquette

April 19, 2020 at 1:17 PM UTC

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April 20, 2020 at 12:15 AM UTC

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More than a dozen publicly traded companies with revenue of more than $100 million, including Shake Shack Inc., Potbelly Corp. and a Tex-Mex restaurant chain with more than 10,000 employees, received loans through a massive relief program aimed at small businesses.