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Grace needs an espresso machine and grinder to reopen a roadside café

A roadside café in San Jose needs help replacing an espresso machine and grinder after a storm that collapsed the roof.

🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States2,401 views
Grace Pruitt
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San Jose
For six years I have run a roadside café in San Jose. In January, a storm that collapsed the roof took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me. Before that, my customers came every Friday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 5 weeks. This business pays my children's school fees and rent. I have already started working from home in small ways, but I can't meet orders without proper equipment. Every contribution brings me closer to reopening, and I promise to post photos as I buy each item. Once I'm back on my feet I plan to hire back the people I had to let go. Where the $2,650 goes: • Shop repairs and licensing: $450 • Working capital for the first month: $430 • Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $1,770 I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.

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  • Good luck, Grace. Your post was clear and honest. God bless.

    • Stay strong, Grace. Hope this works out for you. All the best.

      • Venkat B. KumarID verified

        Best of luck, Grace. Hope the shop reopens soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Blessings.

        • small businesses are the heart of San Jose. Hope you're open again soon. I'm in engineering myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you.

          • sending love, Grace. Shared it with a few friends.

            • Sending love, Grace. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.

              • Thinking of you and your family, Grace. Hope you get there. I went through something like this 4 years ago and strangers helped me out. Love from Arlington!

                • Thinking of you and your family, Grace. Shared it with a few friends. I'm in logistics myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. Greetings from Mumbai.

                  • Hang in there. Shared this with my family. Put this on a community board in Likoni this morning

                    • Sending strength. Shared it with a few friends. Greetings from Piraeus!

                      • Hang in there, Grace. It takes guts to ask. Well done. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.

                        • Wishing you peace, Grace. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Take care.

                          • So sorry you're going through this. Shared it with a few friends. It's not much but it's yours. Love from Ottawa.

                            • You're not alone, Grace. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. I have a 6 year old who wants to send good wishes too

                              • Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of San Jose

                                • Good luck, Grace. Shared this with my family. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of San Jose.

                                  • It takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Saket so I could bring a meal

                                    • Hang in there, Grace. Hope the shop reopens soon.

                                      • looking forward to the next update. I'll check back for the next update. Greetings from Petrópolis.

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