Mark Hammerl Quotations

We're making some changes we would've like to when we were open. We're using this as an opportunity to change some things for the better that would've been very hard to do while open for business. We're certainly working hard to reopen at this point.

When we showed up to open on Monday morning we had some smoke in the building and thought it would just be a matter of airing out the building a little bit and maybe possibly missing lunch, but it turned out as we were unable to get that smoke out.

Just in general when the weather is not so nice outside, people tend to come inside and we provide a place where you can have some fun, spend a few hours with some friends and forget about those winter blues. Last year March was our busiest month and hopefully it will be again this year.

At a certain point you decide rather than rush this, let's do it right and just try to make the best of a rough situation. We want to be able to open up and allow people to have a little bit of a wow factor with a new and improved situation.

They gave me a call about 1 o'clock and said, 'Mark, your building is on fire and you better get back here.' Everything changed from that point.

No, I really love what we're doing here. This is something we've had in the works for a long time and we plan on making a long go of it. We certainly would've rather not have this happen, but you just have to deal with the hand that's dealt you. We'll come back strong here shortly and do what we do best.

The fire itself was put out relatively easily and the damage to that roof was repaired within the first week. Since then we have just been battling the results of some smoke damage. With a business in the building of this size, it becomes a large project very similar to what we went through to open the business.