Tea offers great health benefits, so we felt it was important to stay open during the pandemic and offer safe ways to pick up orders that minimized contact.
KMTV reporter Maya Saenz paid a visit to our shop to see how the pandemic has affected our business. Chief Leaf Tim Smith gave her the scoop.
“Between the fact that we were able to stay open for people who wanted [us] to stay open, for people who wanted to come in or do curbside, and the payroll protection, we didn’t have to do any furloughs or layoffs during that time, so we were blessed in that matter,” Smith said.
“We’ve started to see people get a little stir crazy and wanting to come back out, so for us that’s a good thing in terms of the business. We’ve been really, really careful about how many people we’re allowing in, how we space them around, keep our employees safe, keep everybody else safe,” Smith said.
“We’ve got a couple of the tables now open for consumption. We’re going to go really slow on that and make sure that people are spread out nicely and are able to sanitize in between, and then also that we don’t have any problems with too many people in this small space like we’ve got here.”