Behind the Masks at Pom

Together, we’ve traveled through six of the seven stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and testing. The pain of losing some of our most beloved servers, bartenders, chefs, cooks, bussers, baristas and customers is ineffable. We are now fully into the “acceptance” stage of seeing our “Sassy” vibrant neighborhood bistro, through a new lens. As Dwayne, our GM, likes to say, “We are all really here because we genuinely love and care about serving people.”

We plan to survive this time, and thrive again, if our grit and determination have anything to do with it!

Some elephants in our dining room:

1. New hours of operation
2. Reduced Seating ( hard not to notice )
3. New touch-less, well, pretty-much everything, except your own flatware and glassware
4. New 20% Service Fee added to the bill (learn more)
5. Stylish masks and gloves
6. Obsessive sanitizing action
7. No normally shared communal items such as salt & pepper shakers, catsup / hot sauce bottles, sugar bowls or honey bears.
8. Roped-off Bar Top
9. QR code menu for fun reading and saving trees (If you’re like my 88-yr. old mom, who hates her cell phone, don’t be shy to ask for a disposable menu.)

Some FUN new things that make us smile behind our masks:

1. Legal to-go cocktails, beer, growlers, wine, liquor bottles, and Dwayne’s rotating cocktail “kits”
2. Burgers and Fried Chicken all day, everyday
3. Pike Place Flower Ladies in the parking lot
4. Family Meals and Special Holiday Kits prepared by our catering chefs for Pickup and Delivery 7-days a week
5. Custom Cakes, Cookies and Pies Galore flying out the door for your celebrations
6. Families (under 21) can dine in the bar and patio until we can legally reopen the bar top again.
7. Olivia Nunez is hand-making corn tortillas every morning. That alone is making me smile.

You may not see our smiles, y’all, yet I reassure you, they are there! We are all so happy to be able to welcome you back, even in our temporary capacity.

If you read this blogpost, reach out to me, personally, I have a gift for you. Lisad@duparandcompany.com