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When we lived in the East Bay Area, many a Sunday after
church, we took our children to Banchero’s Italian Restaurant in Hayward , California
It was a family place owned and operated by
Father and Son, with 33 employees. The
son, John began working in the restaurant when he was 13 and learned all aspects of
the business.
Many customers enjoyed the take out menu with half a
chicken, soup, spaghetti, or ravioli’s. I
know we did on many an occasion.
The restaurant served the bay area delicious Italian food at
a reasonable price. Your meal arrived in
courses; Orderves, homemade soup, salad, and your choice of entree, with warm luscious
garlic bread. To complete your meal
there was a choice of Jell-O, pudding or spumoni ice cream. I always selected the spumoni ice cream. Yum.
The original building was a Quonset hut purchased from the
military, and the front was given a face lift for a nice entry. Many a family gathering enjoyed sitting at
their tables.
Sad to say, the restaurant closed mid 2012. The owner when interviewed said he desired to
retire and spend more time with his family, but there was a real reason for the
closure and the loss of 33 jobs for local families.
The owner would not bend to Government pressure. He ran a clean and healthy establishment so
say all that worked there and the many customers who dined there.
One day armed with an agenda, in came the
Health Department, making unreasonable demands,
The Department of Health required new equipment to be
installed, and the expensive upgrades they insisted on had to be implemented
immediately with NO grace period.
Owner John was too classy of a man to mention publicly about
the attack on his business but thanks to the local Bureaucrats, 33 families
lost their income and a fine restaurant was forced to close.
Small business needs to be encouraged and not plagued down
with irrational regulations that force them out of business.
You are probably thinking – What would Jesus do? Jesus probably would have done the same
thing that owner John did - - because we all know - - “You can’t fight City Hall.”
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