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
bottom fell out. we shut our doors. i had to quickly think of ways to recover. business had been booming at choi s korean hot spot mock bar in the city s meat packing neighborhood. we re here on a weekday at the chelsea market and the place is packed. always? always. can t wait to show you some tricks. yeah. i want to see some of my favorite dishes. so this is where our noodles are made. our rice bowls. we have a rice cooker here. all of these are kim chis, our topping for everything and our broth. this goes for 16 to 18 hours. oh my god. we were doing our all-time highest sales ever. i planned to open three more shops. we were ecstatic. business was booming. killing it. pandemic hits. within a week it drops to 50% of sales and almost 0.