Anne Andrus has established a better work-life balance during the pandemic. She has taken to keeping weekends off to spend more time with her 5-year-old child. Photo: Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune/TNS
During the seven years she s been running Honey + Rye Bakehouse in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in the United States, Anne Andrus had been running herself ragged.
Last year, just as she d decided to establish better work-life balance, the coronavirus descended. Instead of dialing back, Andrus dove in: coming in to bake at 4 am and then putting out fires all day.
Then came Mother s Day, when the bakery s online ordering system got overloaded.
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During the seven years she s been running Honey + Rye Bakehouse in St. Louis Park, Anne Andrus had been running herself ragged.
Last year, just as she d decided to establish better work-life balance, the coronavirus descended. Instead of dialing back, Andrus dove in: coming in to bake at 4 a.m. and then putting out fires all day.
Then came Mother s Day, when the bakery s online ordering system got overloaded. The parking lot soon filled with dads waiting for their orders, while her sprinting staff fell behind.
94 Twin Cities restaurants that closed in 2020
Pandemic, riots devastated the food-and-drink scene in the Twin Cities this year. December 28, 2020 9:50am
Saying goodbye to a beloved watering hole, a neighborhood café or a four-star restaurant is never easy. But in 2020, the pain kept coming as the pandemic brutalized the Twin Cities hospitality industry. Some restaurants, already hurting from dining restrictions, were swept up in the destruction that unfolded in the Minneapolis and St. Paul riots. Again and again, places that surprised and delighted us, that entertained and nourished us, served their last meals. Here are 94 of them nearly three times the number of closings we wrote about in 2019.