Supply Chain Crisis Forces Fort Worth Restaurant To Close

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – While the proviso concatenation nightmare is blamed for shortages connected everything from solid bottles to car parts, present a Fort Worth vicinity is uncovering their appetites connected the line.

Drew’s Soul Food Restaurant has closed its doors, shifting to catering only, arsenic the owners struggled to unafraid the supplies needed to enactment open.

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“It started with the nutrient industry,” explains co-owner Stephanie Thomas, “and we conscionable knew it wasn’t going to get better. And things conscionable rolled downhill.”

“Ox-tails, achromatic eyed peas, immoderate of the containers we can’t get… and sometimes you tin lone get 3,” shares her hubby Andrew “Drew” Thomas, with Stephanie adding, “If I bid the ‘to go’ cups for your vegetables, they whitethorn person the cups, but they don’t person the lids. What bully does that bash me?”

For now, the owners accidental the clip and outgo progressive successful chasing down supplies has conscionable go excessively much. So successful betwixt preparing catering orders, they’re fielding calls, confirming the sad, bittersweet news– immoderate adjacent tracking Stephanie down connected her idiosyncratic cell.

“Only 5 minutes ago,” she shares with a laughter arsenic the edifice telephone continues to ringing successful the background, “I got a telephone telephone that said ‘is this true?’ Yes, it’s true.”

For 34 years, the Fort Worth southbound broadside psyche nutrient instauration has served up comfortableness nutrient with a broadside of love–and the assemblage has returned that emotion by the bushels.

“I emotion their smothered pork chops,” gushed David Folsom, “oh my God!” Folsom says helium stopped by aft proceeding they’d reopened the eating room, and seeing the cars successful the parking lot, helium dared to hope. But determination was nary gravy to beryllium had today. “I anticipation they enactment open. I emotion this place.”

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The Thomas’ accidental they cognize that– and that’s what makes this concern truthful hard.

“Just the tone that we bash it in. You consciousness similar you’re losing that due to the fact that of the challenges that you have,” explains Stephanie, her brownish eyes filling with tears, “feels similar the champion decision.”

The bully news, though, is that the household says the intermission is simply a ‘break’, not ‘goodbye’. They accidental they’ll usage the clip to retool.

“Just benignant of freshen things up and springiness it a caller look and a caller feel,” says the Thomas’ girl Krystal, “and conscionable marque it better, overall.”

“It’s been precise rewarding,” adds her father, Andrew, “it’s conscionable been really… a amusive ride.”

So instrumentality heart, support the escaped jeans… it’s not over.

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“Just enactment tuned,” says Stephanie, her grin present returned, “we’ll beryllium back.”