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On good days -- when the high school football team plays at the stadium across the street -- the restaurant would be so full, people couldn't fit in the door. With less work, oil and gas workers also aren't coming in like they used to. Now, she feels it's hard to get anyone to come inside.
"It's almost like a domino effect," Tkalcevic told CNN. "And it could just be disastrous in my eyes if, first the pandemic and then fracking is banned."
Her biggest concern right now, she said, is a one-two punch: the future of fracking and the pandemic. Oil and gas workers make up more than 50% of her customers.
He did not want to disclose which candidate he is planning to vote for on Election Day.
But, he said, "I have to do what's in my best interest, because what's in my best interest career-wise is in the best interest of my daughter. So, my decision will be based on the candidate that I guess has the best interest at heart of the industry that I'm in."
Even with a new job, he said he feels uneasy about his future. With the election looming, job security in the industry doesn't feel so certain anymore.
"You just never know how things are going to turn out," he said.
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