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Help Fernanda restart a roadside café in Joliet after floodwater
Fernanda lost an espresso machine and grinder to floodwater and needs $4,050 to reopen a roadside café and support the family.
🇺🇸 Joliet, Illinois, United States988 views
For six years I have run a roadside café in Joliet. In November, floodwater took an espresso machine and grinder. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Tuesday, and I employed 2 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 3 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.
I'll buy equipment from local suppliers and post photos and receipts as I go.
Where the $4,050 goes:
• Replacing an espresso machine and grinder: $2,250
• Initial stock: coffee and pastries: $390
• Shop repairs and licensing: $620
• Working capital for the first month: $790
Every share and every dollar helps.
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Thinking of you and your family, Fernanda. Looking forward to the next update. Don't give up. Thinking of Joliet
you're not alone, Fernanda. Gave what I could, wish it was more. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Greetings from Mesa.