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Daybreak Constantine, supervisor of the Cherry Lounge defined that regardless of the Halloween festivities stopping many individuals from consuming at eating places Monday, the restaurant’s reopening was profitable.

“It went fairly effectively,” she mentioned. “Being that it was Halloween, lots of people had been house and trick or treating, however we had been pretty busy, so no complaints.”

The Cherry Lounge unexpectedly closed for 2 weeks, beginning in the midst of October, resulting from a malfunction with the sprinkler system brought on by different tenants within the constructing positioned at 326 Cherry St.

“There was a sprinkler system that by chance went off,” Constantine mentioned. “There have been some individuals upstairs within the property above us performing some work, and so they hit a sprinkler head and it by chance went off.”

The Cherry Lounge was lately closed for 2 weeks, following an accident with the restaurant’s sprinkler system that brought about extreme water harm.
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The sprinkler system brought about water to pour into the restaurant’s eating room, storage room and women’ room. Because of the harm brought on by the water, Constantine mentioned the restaurant needed to change the ceiling, which is why the restaurant remained closed for 2 weeks.

Constantine mentioned it was a problem for the restaurant to finish the repairs and completely clear all the pieces previous to the restaurant’s reopening Monday. The restaurant additionally misplaced enterprise income for 2 weeks, which is a troublesome problem to navigate with the restaurant already dealing with rising prices with inflation, supply-chain points and minimal wage will increase. However, Constantine mentioned the restaurant is hopeful that insurance coverage will assist cowl the prices related to the restaurant’s non permanent closure.

Constantine mentioned the group’s response to the reopening of the Cherry Lounge has been “very constructive.”

“I posted on Fb that we had been reopening, and all of the responses had been very constructive,” she mentioned.

After being in enterprise for 38 years, Constantine mentioned group members had been “glad” to listen to information of the restaurant’s reopening.

“Folks had been glad that we had been going to be again in enterprise,” she mentioned.

The group’s continued assist of the Cherry Lounge is one thing that is essential to Constantine.

“We’ve some nice prospects which were very supportive to us through the years, and we simply actually recognize the enterprise,” she mentioned. “It’s saved us going and we hope it continues for a lot of extra years.”