The launch of the business is already a huge leap of faith. Restoration of one after a fire, flood or tornado? This requires something more – stubbornness, heart and a large amount of sand.
After consideration, more than 3,000 people and submitting to the most difficult stories of returning over the past few years, we found the truth that it is easy to miss: failures are everywhere, but also stable.
Here’s what we noticed about small enterprises that simply would not stay down:
| Business | City | State |
|---|---|---|
| Family restaurant Zach | Danan | Alabama |
| TOSHCO (Ice Strait in bulk) | Gustav | Down |
| Betty bakery | Saint -Jones | Arizona |
| The place of Gina | Jonesboro | Arkanza |
| City Lights of Book Tograktsy and Publishers | San Francisco | California |
| The information cafe of the rebel | Denver | Colorado |
| Tacos Los Gordos | New Haiven | Connecticut |
| Willie Farms | Townsend | Delaware |
| Smokin ‘Oyster Brewery (Sob) | Fort -Maires Beach | Florida |
| Bryan Furman BBQ | Atlanta | Georgia |
| Star noodles | Lahaina | Hawaii |
| Sarsaparyla ice cream | The city of Aidaho | Idaho |
| Employed Corner Restaurant and Pirogov store | Goodfield | Illinois |
| Kountry Kitchen | Indianapolis | Indiana |
| Adelina grill | Marshalltown | Iowa |
| – | – | Kansas |
| Hall on the river | Winchester | Kentucky |
| Luna Bar & Grill | Lake Charles | Louisiana |
| Grill room and bar | Portland | Maine |
| Attic antiques ‘n’ things | Ellikott City | Maryland |
| Trident Booksellers & Café | Boston | Massachusetts |
| Sanford hardware | Sanford | Michigan |
| Bookstore of the science fiction of uncle Hugo | Minneapolis | Minnesota |
| Milk bar Chuck | Rolter fork | Mississippi |
| Crown Candy Kitchen | Saint -Louis | Missouri |
| Mission Mount Mercantil | Condon | Montana |
| Dover | Omaha | Nebraska |
| Pizza Lucino | Las -Vegas | Nevada |
| Statey Bar & Grill | Portsmouth | New Gampshire |
| The reef is Donovan | The sea is bright | New Jersey |
| Restaurant and Salon High noon | Albuquerque | New Mexico |
| Sanny bar | Brooklyn | New York |
| Village masters | Island of the Ksurkok | North Carolina |
| Paradiso Mexican restaurant | Fargo | North Dakota |
| Flowers of the amulet | Deuton | Ohio |
| Old Bagel Cafe & Daisy Exchange School | Moore | Oklahola |
| Solutions for Makhovik bicycles | Talent | Oregon |
| Euro food market | Levittown | Pennsylvania |
| Nana African and Caribbean market | PAWTUCKET | Rod -Alend |
| Am-PM Farms Matchery & Market | Founin Inn | South Carolina |
| Dreamers | Sioux Falls | South Dakota |
| The basement of the East | Nashville | Tennessee |
| Cafe Manor | Vako | Texas |
| Grappa | Park City | Utah |
| Blue Benn snack | Bennington | Vermont |
| Friends and family restaurant | Pirisburg | Virginia |
| Apple Cup Café | Chelan | Washington |
| Secret sandwich -Plot | Fayetville | West Virginia |
| Wisconsin brewery | Verona | Wisconsin |
| – | – | Wyoming |
Key conclusions:
The disasters fall more than you think, but in some way the spirit inflicts more and more.
Tornado torn roofs. The floods swallowed the dining rooms. Fires turned decades of work into ashes. But again and again, the owners found ways to pick up pieces.
In places such as Marshalltown, Ia and Fort Myers Beach, FL, the damage was stunning – but today the clients returned at their favorite tables, how nothing happened. Well, almost nothing.
When the community appears, the chances do not matter.
There is no play for what happens when your bakery is under water or your bookstore is burned on the ground. It turns out that most importantly is who appears.
In Arizona, the neighbors with sand drowned out the bakery back to life. In Minneapolis, loyal readers helped the science fiction bookstore to open just two miles from the ash. Provision of assistance. Insurance helps. But there is no replacement of people who plan what they love.
The oldest names fought with difficulty to stay alive.
Some of the enterprises that bounced back were not brilliant new startups – they were decades or even centuries.
The hall on the river saw floods earlier, but the double blow that they took in 2021 could end all this. This is wrong.
Perhaps, after surviving wars, economic failures and everything else that the story threw into them, another disaster simply will not become the end of history.
Bad times did not kill a dream – quick thinking saved it.
Several enterprises suffered in really terrible moments. Some have just begun to bounce off the closing of the Covid-19 when the disaster again inflicted a disaster. Others were preparing for busy seasons. Those who forced him did not wait.
They turned to trucks with food, pop -up shops, online sales – all that is needed to stay in the game. It was not fair, but it was real, and the ability to adapt to all the meaning.
Food, books, music are not just enterprises; They are emotional attractions.
When you lose your favorite sandwich store or that tiny bookstore where you bought your first science fiction novel, this is not just inconvenience. It seems personal.
It is not surprising that there are so many restaurants, indie, book shops and music sites made epic return. People did not just want to return the products. They wanted the feeling that these places gave them. And they fought to get it.
The last thoughts
Enterprises in this list are not just a place for food, purchase or hear a group. They confirm that restoration is possible even when it seems that everything has gone.
No one does it alone. It requires sand, yes. But also requires an area who wants to extend a hand, a client base that will not refuse you, and a stubborn conviction that even after the worst happens, there is something, for which it is worth fighting.
If all these stories have a common thread, then this is: the catastrophe can confuse you. But this cannot decide when you finish.
Methodology
Poll online panels 3104 people based on age, gender and geography. Internal data sources are used to obtain sets of data data. We used a two -stage process to ensure representativeness through a stratified sample and weighing after stratification.
Respondents are carefully selected from the geographically representative online panel of the dual stronghold members. This choice is additionally adapted to the exact criteria necessary for each unique survey. Throughout the survey, we have developed questions to carefully check and authentication of respondents, guaranteeing the alignment of the survey with ideal participants.
To ensure the integrity of our data collection, we use many data quality methods. Along with traditional measures, such as digital removal of the fingers, checks of bots, geover and detection of acceleration, etc. Each response is subjected to a thorough review of a special member of the team to ensure quality and contextual accuracy. Our commitment applies to open answers, subjecting them to thorough thorough thorough thorough thorough thorough fabric and plagiarism.