A Wisconsin restaurant owner named Chad Trainor is in the news after a bunch of teenagers stepped up to keep him in business.
He owns a place called Urban Olive & Vine and ONLY hires teenagers. He has about 30 of them on staff. He says he likes them because they “soak up information” and “want to do well.”
Last September, his wife Carol had a grand mal seizure and was in the hospital for eight months. Sadly, she didn’t make it out. She passed away in May.
While all that was going on, Chad thought he might have to close down the business. But without even being asked, his employees banded together and ran it FOR him.
They trained each other, bought supplies, and came up with new specials. Some of them showed up at 5:30 in the morning to open and do prep work each day. The only time they allowed it to close was so they could all go to Carol’s funeral.
Chad told a reporter he watched them turn from teenagers into adults, and he loves them like they’re his own kids.
