dasblackforest
Mar 17
83
15%
It's Day Three Hundred and Sixty Five of the Wurst Käse Scenario. One year ago, on St. Patrick's Day of 2020, all in-person dining and bar business was closed down for two weeks. We went from essentially zero to go business to 100% to go business literally overnight. Two weeks became six weeks, which became three months, and then the opening and closing cycles began, lasting beyond the end of the year. In the midst of the shutdowns and quarantines, the city erupted in riots and there were a few perilous days in the neighborhood. Later, Erich had a heart attack and was forced to work less and rest more. Naturally, there were also small dramas and temporary issues here, as there were everywhere. And concurrent with everything, the worry and fear about money, about the city, about business, about the health of all our families and friends.
However, today, we don't remember the last year as being quite so grim. For the first time in forever, we had the place to ourselves for months at a time. We painted and repaired and rearranged. Servers and cooks became renovators, wielding brushes, wrenches, power drills, and blow torches. We propped the kitchen doors open and shouted back and forth across the restaurant at each other. If we made too much of some menu item, or it was getting old, we all got a plate of it, or took a little home. Customers who ventured in to pick up their food got to see the works in progress, and the people behind those works.
We documented most of these things on social media. Gina saw the Wurst Käse meme on that first day and thought it would be a clever idea for organizing our posts during what we assumed would be a month or two of crazy pandemic rules. We might not have chosen that gag if we knew we'd be repeating it hundreds and hundreds of times, and yet, everyone seemed to get the joke, and we never did think of anything more clever than that.
You did more than get the joke. You got the spirit of the posts and you get us. We would have abandoned it long ago if we hadn't heard early and often how much you liked the posts and how you looked forward to them every day. In fact, you helped make these posts what they are.
dasblackforest
Mar 17
83
15%
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