Local restaurants rally around employees, each other
Preorders of a Saturday, Dec. 19, Prairie Bay Grill meal garnered more than $6,000 in food sales alone, not including the tips and extra gifts diners added to the fund. All of that money will be donated to employees facing layoffs or reduced hours. 4:00 am, Dec. 24, 2020 ×
Prairie Bay Grill and Catering in Baxter is looking to add the ability to sell bottles of wine and six-packs of beer with food orders in a venture into selling prepackaged meals that customers would make at home. Renee Richardson / Brainerd Dispatch
When the owners of Prairie Bay Grill in Baxter were forced to lay off a majority of their staff for the second time this year just before the holidays, they wanted to help support their team financially.
Millions in federal relief goes to Minnesota companies with ties to lawmakers Lawmaker-linked Minnesota companies got nearly $18M in federal aid this year. December 11, 2020 3:24pm Text size Copy shortlink:
More than three dozen Minnesota companies owned by or connected to state and federal lawmakers received millions in federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Small Business Administration.
Recipients include a Duluth hockey company owned by Republican U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber; and the Washington, D.C.-based political consulting firm co-owned by the husband of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, got relief for his Baxter insurance agency. Rep. John Lesch, a St. Paul Democrat, used aid to make payroll at his St. Paul law firm.