It has been a year to forget for Hartland Bar-B-Que in Benson. They are trying to rebuild after a car smashed through the front of the store Sunday morning.
Contractors spent Monday stacking cinder-blocks. The crash came only a few months after it had been robbed and a few months after it was able to survive being shut down for the pandemic.
“Whatever the insurance doesn’t cover, we have to pay out of pocket pay for this. And that just being closed on this busy Sunday that probably hurt for those sales as well, you know, and just other things that we’re not probably able to pay that probably helped out a lot,” Yanet Soriano of Hartland tells 6 News.
A long-time friend who owns the Banh Mi shop in Bellevue is stepping in to help Soriano cover the costs.
“We decided to donate 10 percent of our earnings from our Bellevue store this week,” said Chloe Tran with Banh Mi. Tran also set out a donation jar at her counter to help. She says her store lost cash after a robbery last year.
Soriano says her restaurant will be take-out only for at least the next couple of days. Customers can eat inside once the side of the building is restored.
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