Whisky West hit by Christmas grinches who stole more than $15,000 including employee bonuses
GoFundMe page set up to help offset the loss
Colin and Donna Pickering have been doing their best to keep both locations of Whisky West open during the pandemic but it s been a struggle. The Belltown location has lost the tourist, conference and hotel business while the Morgan Junction location has been buoyed by locals they are still off by nearly 80%. Now a burglary and loss of $15,000 has added to their problems.
Photo by Patrick Robinson
Mon, 12/21/2020
Whisky West, the Morgan Junction bar and restaurant in business since 2016 in the West Seattle location, suffered a break in, and burglary in the early morning hours of Dec. 20. losing, more than $15,000 including their safe, food, liquor their work truck and employee Christmas bonuses prepared the night before.