Restaurant and shop owners are selling hard-to-find food staples all over San Diego, with local pickup and delivery.
Before the pandemic hit, Ike Gazaryan’s job was to work the floor of his restaurant’s dining room, schmoozing guests as they feasted on Chilean sea bass underneath chandeliers. As co-owner of Pushkin, a Russian restaurant, his specialty was warming dinner tables with friendly chatter and a big personality.
Chefs who once baked racks of lamb and Norwegian salmon are now unwrapping massive boxes of restaurant-grade meat, flour and other pantry staples, weighing them by the pound and wrapping them in Ziploc bags for individual sale. Of the 15 staffers Gazaryan originally laid off when Pushkin shut down, he’s been able to hire 12 back.
“We were experiencing a weird irony,” Bruno said. “Our suppliers who normally direct their products to restaurants were suddenly in a position where they had no outlet to sell. For us personally, there was a lack of supply. But professionally, there was an excess. That day, lightning struck in the room.”“It took about four hours for everyone to realize I wasn’t joking,” Bruno said, laughing.
The company is fielding about 7,000 orders a day across its 23 locations on the East and West coasts. “Ironically, we are more of a general store than ever,” said Ryan Sisson, founder and CEO of the shop’s parent company, Moniker Group.The general store has cleared all its seating, and pushed tables around the perimeter of the store — each stocked with fruits and vegetables, pasta, beans, flour, toilet paper and more. The companyThe supermarket revenue isn’t enough to make Moniker General what it used to be before COVID-19.
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