Im amara walker. Im rahel solomon. Great to be with you, amara. Thanks for coming back. Its been fun. Thank you for spending part of your morning was us. Heres what were watching for you this morning. This is the largest Natural Disaster we have ever experienced. Its going to also be a Natural Disaster thats going to take an incredible amount of time to recover from. The death toll from the maui wildfires jumps to 93, making it the deadliest wildfire in the past century. We are live in maui as federal help pours in. Also hearing from residents frustrated with the governments response. The Fulton County District Attorney investigating donald trump and his attempts to interfere in georgias election expected to present her case to a grand jury this week. What we are learning about some of the key witnesses ordered totive. A viral Triple Threat adds the new Covid Variant emerges. Concerns heading into cold and flu season and what we should be doing to prepare. What caused a United Airlines
March, 2020. States are shutting down restaurants. Thats an Industry Sector that switched all. When you look at big moments like that, how do you face it . What do you do . It was so not in our play book. Major d was telling people i know youre used to this, but thats a remarkable thing to have on a constant basis. People have been waiting for four hours. It was something i didnt have the strategy. We werent able to go to work or order food. No food in the Grocery Stores. But my Chicken Farmer saying now his business is wiped out and Big Box Stores are frantically trying to make deals with these guys. By the end of march, 2020, financial losses and Employee Burnout had taken a toll. Introduce yourselves. Did you close . We never closed. Which in retrospect probably would have been the smarter move for everybody. Because nobody knew what to do. Nobody knew what to do. I think our business was already on a lot of ropes. My per view showed me we were running on very archaic system. In New
Eastern only on cnn. Good morning, and welcome to cnn this morning. Im Rahel Salmon In for victor blackwell. And im am sara walker and thank you for spending a part of your morning with us. The Fulton County jaerm District Attorney investigating Donald Trumps attempts to interfere in the election is expect tods present her case to the grand jury. What were learning about the key witnesses ordered to testify. This is the largest Natural Disaster weve ever experienced. Its also a Natural Disaster that is going to take an incredible amount of time to recover from. The death toll from the maui wildfires jumped to 93 making it the deadliest wildfire in the past century. Were live in maui as help pours in and residents are frustrated with the response. Doctors are warning of a Triple Threat heading into cold and flu season and what we should be doing to prepare. Im back in the element. Im back in that mode. Just back, a part of many my team. And back in action. Buffalo bills safy damar hamli
you heard over the last hour how the pandemic through the restaurant business into a tailspin. definitely there is challenges ahead. higher food cost and labor cost and inflation. you also heard about the passion and determination to make it work. do i think they can make it? i am betting they can. chefs like esther is planning to open her fifth restaurant this year. i am excited, i work so hard, pivoting all the time. it is the mentality and the grit and work ethic that makes it count. back in kentucky, cat opened her second restaurant this year. at least i knew what i was doing this time. i knew what did not work and what could work. bonnie and israel in oregon
year, that s a huge jump. they re in a meeting with owners bonnie and israel morales who are discussing the restaurant s finances. yeah, uh-huh. one of the things that you guys do that i haven t really seen a lot of is that you share your p & l statements, profit and loss statements with your employees. why? when you re faced with something really catastrophic and it turns your whole house upside down, you can t go back to old practices sometimes. you can t really put the house back together. we retained i think eight employees and had to terminate 48. 48 others. as staff shortages escalated during the pandemic, the husband and wife team re-imagined their business model to address employee inequity. we were looking at the humanity of what we re doing and what our employees are facing. they all lived with each other. the dining room managers and the