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Paisley needs a gas stove and two refrigerators to reopen a street-food cart
A street-food cart in Los Angeles needs help replacing a gas stove and two refrigerators after the demolition of the market.
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States1,081 views
For nine years I have run a street-food cart in Los Angeles. In September, the demolition of the market took a gas stove and two refrigerators. I have no insurance, and the bank won't lend to me.
Before that, my customers came every Monday, and I employed 1 people from the neighborhood. I have been out of business for 12 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 $2,200 goes:
• Shop repairs and licensing: $600
• Initial stock: ingredients: $470
• Replacing a gas stove and two refrigerators: $1,130
Thank you so much.
Updates from Paisley
Small update. $461 so far, I met with the supplier and confirmed the amounts.
- Derek B. Sims 🇨🇦 · $200
- Mariana Costa 🇧🇷 · $73
“God bless! - Niterói”
- Claudia A. Herrera 🇦🇷 · $51
“You got this. - La Plata”
- Ishrat Sathi Mukherjee 🇧🇩 · $50
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $50
“Wishing you the best. My cousin told me about this one. - Rohini”
- Bianca Débora Borges 🇧🇷 · $50
- Felicia Yvonne Mahama 🇬🇭 · $44
“Hang in there. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Tema”
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $30.50
“Only $31 but hope it helps. - São Paulo”
- Dinusha Samarasinghe 🇱🇰 · $30
“Every little bit! - Colombo”
- Emon Abdul Ali 🇧🇩 · $30
- Anonymous 🇹🇭 · $30
- Ning Fang 🇺🇸 · $25
- Nalini J. Steyn 🇿🇦 · $25
“Keep your head up - Cape Town”
- Zaid Jamal Jaber 🇪🇬 · $25
- Mary Grace R. Abad 🇵🇭 · $25
“Take care of yourselves. Gave what I could this week. - Taguig”
- Ian T. Clark 🇨🇦 · $25
- Marina Tatiana Gusev 🇮🇹 · $25
“Hope things get better. Hope you get the rest soon. - Rome”
- Mahesh R. Randhawa 🇮🇳 · $23.50
- Chao Zhong 🇺🇸 · $20
- Luca E. Evans 🇺🇸 · $20
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Paisley
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. shop repairs and licensing is the biggest at $600. Happy to explain more.
hope the shop reopens soon. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
Hope you get there. Greetings from Saint-Étienne.
Sending good thoughts, Paisley. Hope this works out for you. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. All the best.
sending strength, Paisley. Hope the shop reopens soon. Put this on a community board in Saskatoon this morning.
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless.
Keep going, Paisley. This could happen to any of us