Oddball
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All a bunch of irresponsible, slacker ingrates, until they're not...Kind and beloved owner falls ill and they fill in.
In a world of shitty news, something that restores faith in the goodness of people when left to their own conscience and compassion...
For years, owners Chad and Carol Trainor have exclusively hired teenagers and supported them as they transitioned on to other opportunities.
“It was at a time when it wasn’t real easy to get a job, and Chad was the one who took me in and saw potential in me,” former employee Reid Filiatreaux told local news station KSTP news.
“There’s no one else in town, no one else in town who would hire as many high schoolers as he does,” he continued. “He goes out of [the] way to train them, to build them up.”
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But when Carol suddenly experienced a grand mal seizure in September 2023, everything changed for the couple. She spent the next eight months at the MHealth Fairview hospital in Minneapolis — largely in a coma — as Chad rarely left her side.
Early on, Chad considered shuttering the business completely. But their young employees didn’t let him consider it for long.
“I didn't ask one teenager to do anything extra,” Chad said. “They just did it.”
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“We didn't know it at the time; my wife was dying, and they just thought they were helping out because she needed help, they needed things covered until she came back,” Chad said, tearing up.
On May 5, Carol passed away at the age of 58. After its doors had stayed open for eight months straight, the restaurant briefly closed so that the employees — all 30 of them — could pay their respects.
www.goodgoodgood.co
In a world of shitty news, something that restores faith in the goodness of people when left to their own conscience and compassion...
For years, owners Chad and Carol Trainor have exclusively hired teenagers and supported them as they transitioned on to other opportunities.
“It was at a time when it wasn’t real easy to get a job, and Chad was the one who took me in and saw potential in me,” former employee Reid Filiatreaux told local news station KSTP news.
“There’s no one else in town, no one else in town who would hire as many high schoolers as he does,” he continued. “He goes out of [the] way to train them, to build them up.”
<snip>
But when Carol suddenly experienced a grand mal seizure in September 2023, everything changed for the couple. She spent the next eight months at the MHealth Fairview hospital in Minneapolis — largely in a coma — as Chad rarely left her side.
Early on, Chad considered shuttering the business completely. But their young employees didn’t let him consider it for long.
“I didn't ask one teenager to do anything extra,” Chad said. “They just did it.”
<snip>
“We didn't know it at the time; my wife was dying, and they just thought they were helping out because she needed help, they needed things covered until she came back,” Chad said, tearing up.
On May 5, Carol passed away at the age of 58. After its doors had stayed open for eight months straight, the restaurant briefly closed so that the employees — all 30 of them — could pay their respects.
This restaurant is staffed entirely by teens. When their boss was hospitalized, they rallied to save her business
Carol Trainor was the bedrock of Wisconsin’s local restaurant Urban Olive & Vine. When she was hospitalized, her employees came together to help save her business.
www.goodgoodgood.co
