6 Twin Cities food industry leaders sum up the year that was 2020
By Rick Nelson and Sharyn Jackson • Star Tribune December 16, 2020 11:04am Text size Copy shortlink:
The year of the pivot
Robb Jones, co-owner of the Minneapolis dive bar Meteor, used the bar s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) money to purchase a hot dog roller and launch a food program during the first shutdown. That wasn t the bar s only reinvention. It toyed with opening a car wash in the parking lot, created a cocktail tasting menu, started selling slushie mixes and is now making cordials for cocktail kits. Initially, I think everyone thought it would just be a couple of weeks, some sort of nationwide shutdown for a limited time frame and that the PPP would get everyone through that. So, we thought it would be kind of fun to do hot dogs. Then we did a tasting menu, which was hard for us to have business be consistent. We only had a certain am