Luckily, my glass guy developed a crush on my mom, and the ample opportunities to ask her out relentlessly kept him at the site working diligently into the night. I managed to find a guy asking for handy man work on the street to help out with some of the walls and other things. And my boyfriend, never ceasing to amaze me, cut stainless steel by HAND with a hacksaw, ran electrical and fixed everything imaginable. My mom, who’d flown in from New Mexico just 5 days before the opening, worked 12 hour shifts helping me clean, paint, truck wheel barrows of rubble out of our café and procure supplies all week long.

The good news is that once the lease is signed, we would be ready to jump into permitting and construction immediately! The bad news is that if this lease never gets signed, we will have all of the plans done for a site that doesn’t exist. Keep your fingers crossed for us that does not happen.