Owners, managers share how the winter storm affected business
JACKSON, Tenn. – Leaders of several Hub City businesses say the snow kept some customers away while some say they had to close up shop for a time.
Jet’s Pizza is one local business that’s been making sure it got its piece of the pie during the winter storm, trying to serve as many customers as they can.
“I mean it’s been a struggle trying to get everybody to come in but grateful for the few that did show up and try to make it happen. Deliveries have been tough. There are few people that did show up. We were pretty busy. Had to turn away a lot of business,” said Aaron Roman, the owner of Jet’s Pizza in Jackson.
On the days they were open, Roman said they were short-staffed. This resulted in him just having workers man the phones while others made the deliveries.
“Actually one of my guys got in a ditch the other day, wrecked his truck for it. We are appreciative of all the business. And the all the customers have been tipping a little better so the guys are appreciative of that,” Roman said.
Brooks Shaw’s Old Country Store says that this is the longest period they have been closed that any worker can remember.
The restaurant reopened for the first time this week on Friday.
“We’ve had a good crowd come in. A lot of our regulars that have been missing the food,” Shaw said. “But tomorrow we plan to be open our normal hours.”
Shaw says that due to the storm their supply truck has not been able to deliver some items.
However, he does encourage residents to shop locally.
“I encourage people to always look and see what local business is open and try to support that. Maybe even try something new on snow days like this,” Shaw said.
Grubb’s Grocery in the Jackson Walk has been open this entire week and their leaders also agree bad weather affects the community and local business.
“I think that it’s terrible for all the businesses in the community to have to be short on hours and stuff like that. It affects everybody,” said Stephanie Webb, the Grocery Manager at Grubb’s Grocery.
The owner of Grubb’s says they were closing early but saw an influx of customers getting necessities.
“I think we’re lucky to be able to offer some of the items other grocery stores can not offer at this time. Like we’ve heard them say they’re out of meat, and they’re out of eggs, and they’re out of bread which actually have all those items and we’ve had them all week,” Webb said.
These businesses have all shared that they will open on their normal hours beginning Saturday.
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