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Madison Black Restaurant Week to highlight nearly 40 Black-owned food businesses
Madison Black Chamber of Commerce is hosting the sixth annual Madison Black Restaurant Week on Aug. 8-15.
August 3, 2021 4:45 PM
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Freddie (left) and Nisa Carter started Sista’s Chicken & Fish in June 2020. The food truck is participating in Black Restaurant Week.
The sixth annual Madison Black Restaurant Week is celebrating nearly 40 restaurants, food carts, caterers and specialty food service providers on Aug. 8-15.
According to a release, businesses across Madison and surrounding cities will be participating in Black Restaurant Week hosted by the Madison Black Chamber of Commerce. There will be pop-up kitchen events and a Black Restaurant Week Bingo.
and social distancing… and that’s not their only challenge.
“We just want our customers back,” said Marilyn Harper, owner of Happily Ever After boutique, a children’s resale shop on Madison’s west side. “Our business is open, but our business is struggling.”
Harper says more than half of her customers are grandparents, and the rest are parents with young children: two groups that have been cautiously quarantined during the pandemic.
“We’re only doing 25% of what our sales used to be,” she explained.
While one year has gone by, only three months of revenue has come in for Harper. And she is certainly not alone.
By Christina Lorey
May 5, 2021 | 1:12 PM
MADISON, Wis. â As many Dane County businesses move into the next phase of reopening, other small business owners, Black owners specifically, are stuck in the past. Their spaces canât accommodate 75% capacity
and social distancing⦠and thatâs not their only challenge.
âWe just want our customers back,â said Marilyn Harper, owner of Happily Ever After boutique, a childrenâs resale shop on Madisonâs west side. âOur business is open, but our business is struggling.â
Harper says more than half of her customers are grandparents, and the rest are parents with young children: two groups that have been cautiously quarantined during the pandemic.
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