Wide Eyes Open Palms in Long Beach closed its kitchen
qvoicenews.comAt Wide Eyes Open Palms, Long Beach’s only coffee shop owned and operated by queer women, the kitchen is closed for the foreseeable future, but the cafe remains open.
Kat McIver, who runs the business with her partner, Angie Evans, announced on social media Sunday that it was the last day for kitchen service.
The cafe’s hours of operation are Thursday – Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Today, Sunday January 30, will be the final day of the hot line kitchen service at WeOp for the foreseeable future,” McIver said on social media. “We don’t think, and we don’t want to believe, that this will be THE final service.
I hope that I will have the strength to come back, that the labor market will change, that the appeal and attraction of working at WeOp will be found by the right passionate people.” During the pandemic, McIver and another person were essentially the only line cooks because nobody would stay longer than three months.
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