LUBBOCK, Texas — Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Jazz A Louisiana Kitchen collected all the greenback payments on the partitions and gave them to their staff to help them in the course of the shutdown. The restaurant stuffed its partitions as soon as once more on Wednesday with greenback payments.
Tracee Brown, the proprietor of Jazz A Louisiana Kitchen, had been with the restaurant for over 30 years and prospects had been doodling on greenback payments and hanging them on the partitions, chairs and the ceiling since. Brown informed the story of how this custom began.
“In 86 the Air Pressure Base was right here, Reese was right here, and so all of the Flyboys would are available in and so they’d put up a greenback simply you understand, wherever they had been going, after which in order that after they got here again to Lubbock and or another folks from their unit or no matter would see it after which it simply took off from there. It simply went loopy,” Brown mentioned.
When the pandemic began and companies throughout began to close down, Brown determined to gather all the cash from her partitions and divide it up amongst her staff. Brown, together with some associates, spent at the least 100 hours eradicating tape and staples from the payments and gathered a complete of over 6,400 {dollars} to present. Brown talked about how the purchasers like it.
“They like it too, most of them. I imply, particularly households and new folks come and nonetheless and so they nonetheless have some outdated those that are available in and say, ‘We’re going to do one other greenback,” in order that they do,” Brown mentioned.
Brown described how she felt in regards to the restaurant’s custom and the neighborhood.
“It simply actually makes you are feeling good to present again,” Brown mentioned.