Apr 13 - 19

Ok, so this constant singing and guitar playing and drum playing and the conversations about those 3 subjects, is catching up to me. I wish I could drink more but it does not seem to help. So, enough about me.  I think that everyone should start off their morning or any time they feel gloom, with asking Siri, or Alexa or your child or grandchild to play the song, “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities. It has an uplifting beat and some good lyrics (except for one line), which fits right now. On the other hand, if you see someone not social distancing, then I have another song you should play to them. It is called “Shame” by Elle King. Play it loud like you mean it.

Well, things are progressing. Again I encourage you to download the ChowNow app, for any restaurant, because it makes it so easy. It is working well at Taylors, and we just got it working at Flapjacks. Hopefully, by the end of next week, we will have it at Country Waffles.

I am in a quandary. The government supposedly will give us money to pay our employees to stay open for business, however, they are offering the employees more to stay home. There appears to be some promising drugs on the horizon, but they are months away from being prescribed and I am terrified of being closed that long, so I am trying the take-out only route. This is all so fun. Remember, we learn from adversity.

Apr 8 - News

Oh boy. As of this Thursday, we will accept ChowNow at FlapJacks. I encourage you to download the app. Also on Thursday, we will open up Country Waffles for take-out and delivery. It will take about a week to activate ChowNow there. Sunday at both places we will prepare a Ham dinner for Easter. This will be a Baked Ham with a Pineapple glaze. It will include, Carrots and Baked Potatoes, Salad and Apple Cobbler.

We encourage you to call ahead and pre-order. We will have this ready to serve between 1:00 and 3:00 Sunday Afternoon. We will charge $9.99 per order. Again, please call ahead between 9:00 and 2:00 before then.

Flapjacks (916) 488-5440
Country Waffles (916) 722-0465

Apr 6 - 12

Wow! Is this exciting or what? Just think of the stories we call tell one day. Our grandparents could say, "we went through World War II", "Yea, but we went through COVID-19". We will all get through this, we might have a lot less money and hair, but we will. This week we opened FlapJacks for take-out only but it was a struggle. We are not really set up to take all our orders over the phone at one time. This week we will get the ChowNow app working and that should help a lot. I encourage you to download it on your smartphone. It allows you to order from different restaurants and prepay. It will also give you a time when the order is ready. We will shoot to open Country Waffles this Thursday, but we won’t have the app ready so we will have a little bit of a struggle at first as well.

This week I have applied for at least 5 different forms of the same loan, all while trying to learn all these systems of online ordering that frankly we never had to worry about before, and all the while I have had to listen to my son play his guitar or drums or just converse with me for hours and hours.

Once again, we will get through this. I got through 30 months of rebuilding after the fire, so what is a measly 18 months of spending time with my children. Oh, that ‘s right, we better find a vaccine pretty soon.

Thanks folks.

Apr 1 - News

Wednesday, April 1 (no not an April Fool's joke) we will open Flapjacks from 9AM to 3PM for phone orders and take out only. We will only take credit cards over the phone. We will serve most of our regular menu items, along with some dinner items that you can reheat. We are also going to have our baker make pies and cookies to order. You could call in the previous day and we would try and have them prepared the next. I will work on a Menu for the bakery items next.

The dinner items would be Lasagna with garlic bread and a salad, Chicken or Beef enchiladas with rice and beans and a salad, and Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and bread and a salad. These would all sell for $8.99 for each serving, however email customers get their discount. These would be served cold unless you ask for it heated. The idea is you can pick it up at before 3PM and take it home and microwave it or throw it in the oven.

By next week we should have the ChowNow app in place so you could order online and even have Doordash deliver. On Thursday of this week we will open Taylors in Loomis from 11AM to 5PM on a similar basis. If this goes well then we will open Country Waffles next week.

Folks, we all need a little luck, but please help us out.

9AM - 3PM, Monday - Sunday
(916) 488-5440