Barstool Sports activities grants Burger Hut $15K with little small business fund

CHICO — Just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic Burger Hut Burgers had 50 employees doing work to serve shoppers in between its two Chico places and a single Sacramento location. Now, homeowners Erin and Rick Kusie are utilizing 31 workers involving the two Chico areas. The Sacramento site has been closed.



a man cooking in a kitchen preparing food: Conor Park watches as Timothy Fitzpatrick prepares a cheeseburger and fries at the Burger Hut on Forest Avenue in Chico on Tuesday. Park and Fitzpatrick are two of the 31 employees Burger Hut is employing between its two locations. (Justin Couchot -- Enterprise-Record)


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Conor Park watches as Timothy Fitzpatrick prepares a cheeseburger and fries at the Burger Hut on Forest Avenue in Chico on Tuesday. Park and Fitzpatrick are two of the 31 workers Burger Hut is employing between its two areas. (Justin Couchot — Company-Record)

Like many little companies the Kusies are battling, particularly with payroll, and asking for assist was seemingly the toughest element.

On Friday, the entrepreneurs of the second-generation burger cafe obtained a FaceTime contact from Barstool Sporting activities owner David Portnoy, joined by special guest Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback and previous star athlete at Enjoyable Valley Large and Butte College or university. Rodgers knowledgeable the entrepreneurs that they had ben granted obtain to the new Barstool Fund that Portnoy produced to aid little organizations out of disappointment for the deficiency of support they ended up having from the authorities.

 

The grant for Burger Hut is $15,000.

The software necessary moving into simple fiscal information and submitting a video request, Erin Kusie claimed.

Portnoy’s most important affliction for compact companies applying to qualify was that employees had been even now remaining paid out, and Burger Hut’s staff members is nonetheless obtaining paychecks.

Following donating to the fund himself, and viewing a cafe from his hometown on the list, Rodgers requested Portnoy if he could be a part of the phone to the Kusies. He took the honor of informing his hometown burger joint.

“They actually sent me about your guys’ online video and e mail and I was pumped since I have been heading to Burger Hut for years,” Rodgers reported in the movie on Friday. “I’ll say it mainly because Dave receives to say it so lots of moments but you men are in the fund.”



a kitchen with a dining table: The lobby and signature condiment bars at Burger Hut on Forest Avenue in Chico are closed due to COVID-19 restrictions in Butte County. Both of Burger Hut’s Chico locations are open for takeout, outdoor dining and delivery and the condiments now come in a plastic container on the side of the burger. (Justin Couchot — Enterprise-Record)


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The foyer and signature condiment bars at Burger Hut on Forest Avenue in Chico are closed due to COVID-19 limits in Butte County. Both of Burger Hut’s Chico places are open up for takeout, outdoor eating and shipping and delivery and the condiments now appear in a plastic container on the aspect of the burger. (Justin Couchot — Enterprise-History)

In Portnoy’s online video detailing the fund, he mentioned that the fund aims to aid smaller businesses get by on a month-to-thirty day period basis. He began with the intention of accumulating $500,000 and distributing the funds to companies who applied. Even so, with athletes and other corporations becoming a member of in, the fund as of 2 p.m. Tuesday had reached $27,425,844 by means of 192,495 supporters and 151 businesses supported.

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“We recognize that our business enterprise is in all probability likely to be improved going forward,” Rick Kusie reported in the video submission. “We have a ton of self confidence that if we can make it by way of the subsequent three to six months that we could get back to a variety that would be self sustaining. So that’s why we’re requesting some help.”

Portnoy initially received the concept for the fund from radio producer and cameraman Frankie Borrelli, whose relatives owned a pizza cafe in Lengthy Island, New York. Borrelli’s father said he was heading to pay out his staff through the conclusion even if that meant the restaurant closing.

Following the first half-million dollars have been lifted, Portnoy has started a in the same way-formatted donation system to GoFundMe on the Barstool Fund internet site at www.barstoolsports.com/the-barstool-fund. Programs are nevertheless becoming accepted for battling compact firms, which include bars, dining places or gyms needing rent reduction, tax relief or other economic assistance to endure for the subsequent thirty day period on the web at https://barstool.typeform.com/to/fbCSK7GZ.

“We experience pretty fortuitous — there’s a lot of folks out there who are having difficulties, and we know a great deal of them, just in Chico,” Rick Kusie said to Portnoy in the online video. “So the truth that we’re ready to gain from your program is brilliant.”

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