Pontiac Regional Chamber issued the following announcement on July 26.
Flavors of Jamaica in the Press.
The Free Press is checking in with five women who have opened their restaurants in the middle of a pandemic. Flavors of Jamaica in Pontiac owner Reniel Billups, 39, reaches for cookware in the kitchen during a busy take out lunchtime Friday, July 24, 2020. (Photo: Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press)
When a pandemic beset the world and led the government to shut down dining rooms just weeks before her long-awaited restaurant’s planned grand opening, Reniel Billups did the only thing that made sense to her: She opened early.
“We had the restaurant sitting there ready and I had no work for myself,” Billups recalled of the early days of the pandemic in Michigan. “I’m faced with all my caterings canceled because events are no longer going on. My daughter, who is a pastry chef, had just come on board working for me full time. I just had her quit her job to come work for me and I have to pay her. So what do we do? The building is here and ready to go.
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Source: Pontiac Regional Chamber
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