so to finish. We do feel blessed to have this time to complete this project we have been wanting to do for years, but it is challenging financially of course. We also have about 50 on-call servers, bartenders, and day-of coordinators and event managers for our weekend events. We can’t pay these employees until the events take place, but since most events are postponing, we all just have to hold out until the new dates. It’s tough and we are very upset that these employees won’t have the opportunity to make this money in April and May (and possibly future months). I have an amazing staff and they know that if they need anything, they can call us and we will do what we can to help them. In most cases this is a second part-time job to make some extra cash and unfortunately that opportunity won’t be there for a couple of months. We are also starting to get calls for delivery and pick-up style individual catering for nurses, aids, factory workers, and those on the front line... So we are finding ways to be able to serve these clients. Despite not working actual events, we are still very busy updating our business operating system, doing the hundreds of housekeeping items we always want to do (but never have time for), and we are also busy booking weddings for 2021 and even a couple for 2022.
We are also starting to get calls for delivery/ pick-up style individual catering for nurses, aids, factory workers, and those on the front line... So we are finding ways to be able to serve these clients. Safety and health come first as always in our kitchen... We will handle all orders with the utmost care. At this time we are still busy working, improving, and adapting... just not catering large events. We are also enjoying more quality family time while we can. We hold deposits for our events, so we know the business will come back, and as long as we can start catering events again by June or July, we are hoping not to take out any loans or grants, but that could change any day. We discuss this daily and we have been researching our options at this time. I hope this won’t stop people from holding big parties, gatherings, and weddings in the future. People will always get married, so I am hopeful that business will get back to normal quickly. We are also very adaptable... If we need to adjust to a new way of catering, then that is what we will do. Only time will tell, but we are very hopeful and looking forward to the other side of this!
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