Off The Menu: Steaming Tender seeking assistance during pandemic
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
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Over the last 10n months the Lamothe family, which operates the Steaming Tender Restaurant in Palmer, have faced their share of frustrations. Like small business owners of all types, they’ve found themselves struggling to comply with necessary public health restrictions while at the same time trying to keep their restaurant operation a viable enterprise.
On Jan. 5, sisters Linea and Scarlett Lamothe posted a YouTube video describing the challenges they and the rest of the Lamothe family have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video was intended as Steaming Tender’s “application” to the Barstool Fund, a fundraising effort promoted as helping small businesses cope with their current financial distress. Narrated by the two sisters, the video tours the restaurant, describes some of the impacts of the pandemic on Steaming Tender’s operation, and features an interview with their mother, Robin Lamothe, who coordinates the restaurant’s day-to-day operations.