The Preservery, a new-American restaurant/market/deli that opened at 3040 Blake St. in April 2016, will close its doors on Sunday, Sept. 4, according to an announcement made online. (via thknwco)
“It seemed so shameful that we had a big, beautiful kitchen and a team of capable cooks who wanted to feed people while there were folks living right outside our door in terribly harsh conditions who really needed a hot, wholesome meal,” she wrote on the blog.
As a result, even though the Arisses have sold the business and are closing The Preservery, they have kept the rights to the name and plan to start a nonprofit venture providing hunger relief to people experiencing homelessness — an effort they had started a few years earlier. “We are closing our restaurant ‘for good’ so we can go do some good,” Whitney wrote. “One day soon we hope to purchase a commercial property and have a brick and mortar business again, but next time it will be on our own terms and in service to our community.
“Our society is so obsessed with the grind and there is perhaps no industry that better epitomizes this mentality than the restaurant industry … What we’ve come to realize after all these years of grinding is that what matters most to us is doing as much good as we can while we are still occupying this Earth and spending quality time with the ones we love.”
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