It s never easy to launch a new food business. You need a hip location, stylish furnishings and dinnerware, a well-equipped kitchen, a dynamite menu, a skilled staff. You need money lots and lots of money and advertising and influencers on social media.
But add a deadly pandemic to the picture, and things can get pretty dicey. Couple the threat of illness with government stay-at-home orders, followed by months of fear and reticence by your customers and team members to return. Then add a lack of money. Or the glimmer of government money that must be applied for and then waited upon. And then alter all your plans to include mandated social distancing and cleaning requirements.
Merry Pranksters leader Ken Babbs, Ken Kesey’s best friend, is ‘hooked’ on spotlight, adds to psychedelic 1960s myth
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The Merry Pranksters bus, shown here in Portland years after its famous cross-country trip, never failed to draw a crowd.Oregonian
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Ken Babbs is miffed that the big publishers back east don’t seem very interested in his memoir.
“It doesn’t fit into their idea of anything,” he says, on the phone from his 6-acre farm in Lane County. “None of them realize the size of the audience I’m dealing with.”
He might be right about the publishing world’s cluelessness. Sure, Babbs’ 2011 novel “Who Shot the Water Buffalo?” didn’t break any sales records, but that was about the Vietnam War. The unpublished memoir is about the Merry Pranksters.
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WATERTOWN — The Watertown Rotary Club is once again raising donations for the Rotary Foundation to pay for polio vaccinations in an effort to eradicate the disease.
Park City wonders what an online-only Sundance Film Festival will mean for its economy
Will visiting skiers fill the hole left by thousands of movie lovers staying home to stream films?
| Jan. 23, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Foot traffic in front of the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street in Park City on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.
Tucked into a renovated Masonic Hall, upscale Riverhorse on Main is “bought out morning, noon and night” during the Sundance Film Festival, says co-owner and chef Seth Adams, “doing different activations all day long whether it’s a movie premiere or just a cocktail party or a late-night event with a DJ or a band.”