Linda Hanger and Kristina Scrivani sound surprisingly upbeat as they share the news theyâve decided to permanently close Stone Creek Kitchen, their five-businesses-in-one shop they conceived of in 2010, after a chance meeting at a dinner party made them realize they shared a common love of food and a common sense of how a food-based business should run. Think back to 2010, when the country was still in the throes of one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression. And think about now, month 10 of a pandemic that has hammered mom-and-pop businesses and food businesses most of all.
âItâs bookends to a decade,â Hanger says.
Linda Hanger and Kristina Scrivani have joked they decided in 2010 to open their wildly popular Stone Creek Kitchen during one of the worst recessions the country has ever seen, and have made the decision to close it during the pandemic, a disaster of another type but one with financial ramifications for all, especially mom-and-pop retailers. It s bookends to the decade, Hanger says.
That s 10 years of teaching people to cook, of winemaker dinners, of catering special events, of supplying the home cooks of the Peninsula and beyond with all of their kitchen tool needs. Ten years of those amazing curried chicken salad sandwiches on raisin-studded bread ( We make the curry powder before we make the curry salads, Scrivani pipes up) and 10 years of that crunchily delicious lettuce salad loaded with cherry tomatoes and creamy blue cheese and bacon. Ten years of grabbing a quick healthy bite from their deli counter, and of course please add a giant cookie, and 10 years of weary Highway