Roughly six months after opening their first restaurant together, the co-owners of Vegz in Adams Morgan faced an obstacle of unprecedented proportions: a pandemic. The neighborhood known for its bustling nightlife and food scene became a ghost town. Like many other restaurateurs, Paul P. Alias and chef Swarn Singh — a pair of Indian immigrants who met working in a kitchen 15 years ago — decided to close up shop. They each had two decades of experience under their belt but didn’t know how they would manage without staff, as disrupted public transportation and drastically reduced income made it impossible to keep employees on. Then, a few weeks in, the two men remembered they still had each other….