2020, What a Year!

This one has been a doozy folks.

I do want to take a minute to genuinely THANK YOU for all of your support over the last 9 months.

Restaurant life during a pandemic is unlike anything I have ever experienced. Loss of sales, rethinking business structure, staff afraid to come to work, inability to plan ahead, etc. All of this really just boils down to one major factor. Constant change.

We have all been experiencing a roller coaster of change for nearly a year now. Now my core personality type THRIVES in change. I love it. I just can’t stand doing the same thing everyday. Maybe it’s the sagittarius in me, maybe the ADHD. Probably alot of both. Typically this trait serves me well while wearing all the hats a restauranteur wears. And I am sure I have had an easier go of it than those who are adverse to change.

But this level of constant change has me crying uncle. I love the Village. It is my community. It is my home. I am fighting everyday for it. But somedays it is hard to get out of bed to continue the fight.

That is where you guys have come in clutch. It is where my community has lifted me up. My family of employees have come together. Regulars asking where they can offer support. Take & Bake Subscribers eating meals from us every week month after month. People sending me letters of encouragement. Local government and fellow restauranteurs coming together to offer support and aid during these unprecedented times.

I am just as tired of hearing that term as I am of “new normal”. But it is true. We have never been here as a state/country/world before. Yes it has happened before, but not to us. Not to the humans sitting on the earth right now, being the grown ups responsible for managing all this chaos.

Are we doing it perfectly? No. But we are trying. We are all doing our best to get out of bed everyday and fight this thing. Fight for our health, our families, our economy, our normal.

I am choosing to try and find the positive in the last 9 months. It isn’t the easiest thing to see but I would rather look for that than sit in the dark. I sure am glad that I am fighting with my Village family on my side.

I couldn’t do it without you.

Here’s to 2021.

photo credit: Ashley Diamond Siegert, Figmint Photography