Ok, folks, you know how this social distancing thing can be difficult at times. Well, I have come up with a solution. You know how you forget to stay six feet away from someone, or worse yet, someone gets too close to you? The solution is we all stop bathing. After just a few days, believe me, no one will get within 6 yards of you, and you now will be able to sleep at night knowing you are safe. You can thank me later.
So don’t forget Mother's Day. Go to our website and order a wonderful breakfast for the Mrs. to take home. Remember, we are not taking cash so it is a lot easier if you preorder and prepay. Moms, if someone could only get you away from your children for the day? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
May 4 - 10
Did you read that we in Sacramento County had the lowest coronavirus infection rate of any large metro area? Whoo Hooo! Three months ago we had barely heard of this virus and now this news subject is 99% of everything. It is no time to go out partying yet. Maybe, Tuesday? Seriously, our social distancing has worked so far, and I for one don’t want to open too soon. However, I can’t wait to open, but things will be different for a while. We probably will only seat every third table, you will enter with a mask (hopefully you won’t try to rob us), and we may take your temperature at the door. We may only take reservations and then get your email when you call so that if there was another customer or employee, who was stricken, we could notify you. We will expand to tables outside where the virus doesn’t tend to travel effectively as far. It will be an experience, and years from now, we will have something to talk about.
People, I don’t know if I can take months more of my children. When my son isn’t playing his guitars or his drums or his games, he talks. I want to look into the record for the Guinness Book of Records of the most words spoken in a month. Then again, the last thing I want to do is encourage him. Maybe I should tell him of the record of the least amount of words spoken in a month. Yes, that’s it. I will tell him if he could break that record, I will send him to London to claim the prize. I could find a really slow boat. Oh, there is hope, even in this time of crisis.
Apr 27 - May 3
The first school opened in the United States in 1635. If you were able to go back in time, back before school, you would see parents spending a lot of time with their kids. Consequently, parents started jumping off cliffs and offering to join the military. A group got together and came up with an idea of a place where the kids would go each day to give the parents a break. It was later on that they said: “hey, maybe we could get them a teacher and they would be away even longer”. It came to reason that the less they saw their children the more they liked them. Now, we are with our kids 24/7 and we are trying desperately to come up with a new solution to get these darling children away from us before we do something that would not be good.
Ok, folks last night we opened Flapjacks for Burgers and Shakes for take-out only and it was fun. I tried to get the girls to wear roller skates but they rebelled. Right now all three places are open for take-out only. I encourage you to go to our website and order right from there.
Apr 20 - 26
Wow!
First off, we are going to try opening Flapjacks Friday and Saturday nights from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM for just Burgers, Shakes, and Fries. Again this will be for take-out only. So it will be like the old days with “car hops”. We will try this. I would strongly suggest you download the ChowNow app so we can get the payment prepaid. The menu will be like the one we have at Taylors with a limited menu. However, we will still have lasagna and a meatloaf dinner that you can purchase to reheat.
Second. This is me venting. The government has told us that if we stay open they will give us money to operate for 10 weeks. The problem is when you apply you are in competition with 30 million other businesses. Ok, say the government gives the Bank of So & So $10,000,000 dollars to dole out, and the bank has 1000 businesses apply. If you’re the bank, you think, hey, it is too much work to go through all of these. Let’s just lend it to our biggest customers. Consequently, most of us don’t get any money. I don’t know if this is how it works, but I don’t know of any small business like mine that has received any response let alone any money. But, a friend of mine who has a large business has already received the money. Very large restaurant chains have gotten $30,000,000 so far. For me, my landlords are still charging rent, so in my present state, I am losing about $12,000 a month for each restaurant. So, if one of you knows somebody, let them know we SMALL businesses are having a very tough time, which means that eventually my employees, will have a tough time.
Third. So I still don’t understand the term “Noise Cancelling Headphones”. My son goes around singing and playing the guitar and playing the drums and we have to throw things at him to get his attention. Is the purpose of these so you don’t hear your parents. Because, if that is the case, they nailed it.