Concord restaurant workers like earning tips, but want a higher base pay >Daniell Gelinas serves up some breakfast items at the Red Arrow on Loudon Road on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER > Daniell Gelinas serves up some breakfast items at the Red Arrow on Loudon Road on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER
Published: 7/24/2021 8:39:31 PM
Danielle Gelinas works hard to keep her customers happy at the Red Arrow Diner near the Concord airport. She hustles to get plates on tables and keep coffee cups full.
Most times customers are appreciative and generous. Sometimes, they leave her a few cents or less.
When it’s all averaged out, Gelinas figures she makes between $15 and $25 an hour. It’s decent when times are good, like they are now, but the unpredictability of the pay is difficult to live with.
UpdatedMon, May 24, 2021 at 4:45 pm ET
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The popular deck at The Draft on South Main Street in Concord was closed on May 15 to customers due to a lack of staffing. (Tony Schinella/Patch)
CONCORD, NH The last 15 months have been a boomerang, of sorts, for restaurants in New Hampshire.
Midway through March 2020, as everything shut down, many restaurateurs and business owners thought they were going to lose everything. The industry requires customers to go out to eat and drink, spend their money, and be social something that was restricted during the coronavirus pandemic. Eateries pivoted offering outside dining and takeout options and strategizing to stay alive. Many survived until infections died down but some, however, did not.
NORTH HAMPTON – Google Maps will tell you it’s a nearly 3,000 miles from North Hampton to Guadalajara, Mexico. For those here on the Seacoast hoping to sample the rich and vibrant cuisine from the third-largest city in Mexico, however, the trip is far shorter one.
Los Cantaros opened its restaurant doors earlier this spring and judging by the overflow parking at the site of the old Barley House Restaurant on Route 1, Jorge Villa Gonzalez’s hunch that North Hampton would be receptive to the same tasty fare he grew up with has been right on the money.
“I always loved to cook,” said Gonzalez, who immigrated to the states from Guadalajara when he was 16. “My two grandmothers cooked delicious food and I was that boy that was always asking ‘Hey, how can I help you?’ I learned a lot of stuff.”
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Mavs Sweep Lakers. Even without LeBron James and with a very limited Anthony Davis, a split would have been understandable, especially since the Mavs played Saturday night’s game without Kristaps Porzingis and Josh Richardson. But Luka Doncic solved the Lakers’ double-teams finally, racking up 13 assists, and Dwight Powell had 25 points and 9 rebounds, as the Mavs came back from 17 points down to win going away. Big dub.
Joe Tillotson, RIP. I knew Joe best as one of the owners of Barley House, but that was just one of many bars and restaurants he was behind. The 53-year-old succumbed to prostate cancer on April 22.