9 & 10 News
January 13, 2021
The National Restaurant Association says in 2020 more than 100,000 restaurants nationwide went out of business.
But the owners of Oakwood Proper Burgers in Traverse City are doing things opposite, they plan to open.
Co-Owner, Leslie Bilbey says, “My husband Josh and I live nearby and we walk this community a lot. We’ve seen this building. We’ve admired it and so we came across it because we wanted to give it new life.”
They’ve noticed the constant changes other restaurant owners have had to make.
“It’s a little bit different than somebody who has already been in operation. They wake up one day and they’re closed to in person and the next person they’re not. So that’s got to be a lot of stress for them,” says Bilbey.