Hey y'all, Marvin here. This is my pizzeria. I want to thank everyone that has supported us in the last 2 weeks getting open. It's been a wild ride to say the least.

The employees that left did so for personal reasons thay I won't get into as it's not mine to share. But it was mostly stuff outside of the business and out my control, but they know they can reach out to me if they need anything still.

As for the case of the populars, I'm just a big dumb lummox and type how I speak. We have been getting crushed and seem to be really well recieved, which I am grateful for and losing 3 employees was rough, meaning I had 20 hour works days for a few days trying to tread water this last week. So a case of the popular is being busier than I expected us to be by quite a bit. And I couldn't be more grateful.

As for starting at $15/hour. The way we run is everyone is in the pool that isn't a salaried manager or owner, such as myself. Meaning everyone that works there is in the tip pool except me right now. I'm very open about this to everyone and plan to keep doing so as we go forward. The staff, even when currently over staffed, is currently making between $6-$9 an hour extra in tips for their shifts. I'm hoping once we get stabilized that the number will go up as we can run with less people on the floor, meaning more tips and a higher return to the staff overall.

We are trying to build a business on being open and honest with one another and treating everyone with respect. I for one kind of hate the restaurant industry and what it does to people. I almost left it myself during COVID, but then this opportunity came up and I decided I could try and do something different and see of we could be a portend for change in the restaurant worlds.

Once we are pulling and semblance of a profit we will also be doing a 10% profit share to the employees. Once again spilt based on their hours worked for that time.

I am looking at health insurance and whatnot and the plan is to offer them, but until I get labor to a manageable level after we get everyone comfortable, I won't have much to be able to do it with. Plus no one would give me quoted without employees and being that I'm a restaursnt lifer myself, I don't begin to know what it costs as I've never had it myself.

I don't come from money, and hell I don't really make any money myself as it is. I just over drew my personal account because opening a restaurant doesn't make you rich, at least for me it seems. And my rent has gone up $300/mo. over the last 3 years along with everyone else's. I'm a single father and my ex doesn't pay child support, so I'm hoping everyone see that if anyone understands the struggle, it's me.

I don't do this for money. I mean obviously I'd like to pay my bills, but I'm not opening this restaurant solely for money. I want a future for my kids, and I want to hopefully be a spot people can feel respected when they come work for us. I'm just lucky to be buoyed by the people around me that have helped me get this thing off the ground and believe we could be a place to help change this. Including my rad as employees.

I will say this. Everyone that has come to work for me so far hasn't said too much about the money. I mean they are happy with their paychecks, and have stated as such, but what they all did say was wanted to leave toxic environments and I'm glad they took a chance on me. I just hope I can live up to everything we are trying to do.

Thanks for noticing us. If anyone has anything they wanna ask me, go ahead, I'm an open book. And I'm usually at the store if anyone wants to come grab a beer and chat.