The next time you go out to eat there's a good chance you'll experience longer wait times than you're used to, missing menu items, and unexpected closures tied to the labor crisis and supply chain issues impacting our local restaurants. News5 looks at the impact and opportunities.
Bonnie Singleton grew up in rural Wisconsin, in a town so small it made Colorado Springs seem startlingly large.
âNew Auburn is a town of 500. and I graduated with a class of 27 students,â Singleton recalls. âYeah, teeny tiny.
âWhen I moved to the Springs, it was kind of shocking. I lived near UCCS, and I remember having to make a left turn on Austin Bluffs and felt overwhelmed by just two lanes of traffic â and I cried. I had never parked in a parking garage before. Iâm kind of an undercover hillbilly, really. Now, Colorado Springs feels like just the right size for me: Itâs not small, but not a huge metropolitan [city]. Iâm able to network and connect with others while maintaining some anonymity here.âÂ
Pikes Peak Restaurant Week kicks off today
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and last updated 2021-04-09 20:29:36-04
EL PASO CO. â Today kicks off the start of Pikes Peak Restaurant Week. Since the pandemic began, restaurants need the community s support now more than ever.
If you want to enjoy some great meals for restaurant week, there are about 50 restaurants in Colorado Springs to choose from. Most of them are in the downtown area, with others in the northern part of the city like near Briargate, and some options in Manitou Springs.
Restaurants around the Pikes Peak region will be offering discounts on delicious meals. If you want to check out what s on the menu at participating restaurants, you can sign up for the
Patru Dumitru is a mushroom microgreen wunderkind. If that wasnât a thing, it is now.
After dropping out from a year of business school at UCCS, he started a hydroponics business at age 19 in his parentsâ garage, selling a rig he designed called the âHerbaHammock.â Sold for $125, it could grow 30 lettuce heads monthly. He wanted to empower people living in apartments or places without backyards to grow their own food, but after a couple years of giving it a go at farmers markets and failing to make much money, he embarked on a new journey. A local chef had asked him one day if he grew microgreens, so he looked into it, and became interested.Â