Diner Tags

I am asking for prayers. I would absolutely LOVE to open a charity or "pay-what-you-can" diner for people who need help. The idea would be to have a benefactor or benefactors who would support the diner, then, once a week, or as often as financing allowed, I could open to the public, including the homeless and those who just need and encouraging home-cooked meal. It would be an honor system. Buffet style meal, pay what you can, after dinner, clean up your table and load your dishes in the dishwasher. Stick around and play games, watch TV, help with KP, whatever. If you like this idea, please send me encouragement, prayers, and positive energies. If you REALLY like it, and want to help finance it, just let me know. If there is enough financing available, I could start looking for a location and have Sunday dinner ready for you all to join me and my family. Thanks!

I have tried for more than two years to secure employment in the Montrose area where I reside with my husband. I have had no success even after receiving an MBA in business and operations managment.

I have decided to create a job for myself and others but need some help with the financial side of the venture.

The need is to raise $20,000 so we can begin operations. The business will be a small diner and cafe serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Funds will be used for general operations, rent, utilities and inventory for three months to allow the business to grow and become self-sufficient.

I am willing to pay a return on investment from those who seriously are willing to help us create this opportunity.

This is seed funding - please consider helping. For more information on venture please contact me directly.

The business will be located in Western Colorado and we would like to open as soon as possible. We do have some funding but not sufficient to open the diner.

Please help

For those who do not care to use PayPal you can mail a check or money order (USD) to KuntryKitchen Fund - % NVOAF P.O. Box 1016 Montrose, Colorado 81402-1016.

Thank you for caring.

Hi there,

Let me tell you a little about us. My girlfriend and I have been together for going on 7 years. We have four wonderful children, her 15 year old son and 8 year old son from her marriage, and our 5 year old daughter and 4 year old son.

When we met, she was a manager in a major retail store. We were accustomed to living on the income we had at that time. Her dream is to own a successful restaurant.

Three years ago, she quit her management job to buy a little diner which has seasonal business. Her parents took out a mortgage against their house to help her make a go of it.

Every year I have given her a few thousand out of my income tax refund to get the diner going for the year. At the cost of not paying something off of the credit cards, which grew out of hand because of our getting accustomed to living on a lower income.

Basically, I make about $1500 a month and pay $900 a month to credit cards. She works 14 hours a day 7 days a week, just so the diner can pay for itself. She cannot bring any money home, to help with the household.

We need $85,000 to pay off the credit cards and the loan from her parents. Please help if you can, every dollar makes a difference.

Thank you,
Don

Hello. My name is Allison. I'm 44.
My father was a schizophrenic my mother was a 1950's mom.
This was back in the early 1970's when people didn't know much about schizophrenia. The drugs made my dad really sick and he didn't want to take them. My mother, being from her generation, was ill prepared to deal with this kind of situation.
When I was 8 we moved to Woodstock, NY on my father's whim. Dad wouldn't work, so my Mom has to. I also have an older brother, Mitchell, who definitely picked up the mentally ill gene at an early age. After a time my Dad became really violent. He asked us all the time if we were afraid of him, but we were all too frightened to tell him "yes". my brother moved into a boy's shelter in town. He was 13 at the time. My brother got into lot's of fights. The night after the first time my father hit her, my Mom moved into a close-by seedy apartment to keep an eye on us kids, but my Dad wouldn't let her near us.
I was Daddy's princess which for some reason still makes me happy to this day. Being alone with him was a psychodelic nightmare. My Father told me that I was the Messiah(we're Jewish) returned to bring peace to the world. My Father said we would find the garden of Eden. I saw a lot of things that I'm sure couldn't possibly exist, but still think they were real.
It's difficult to explain what it's like to live with a schizophrenic. The person can be quite docile and then, on the drop of a dime, become a hideously violent person.
My father never physically hurt me, like he did my brother and my Mom. Nor did he ever molest me. my Dad did make me live in his mind like a cult makes you part of the group mind.
Eventually my Mother kidnapped me during the middle of the day from my elemenatarly school. She had got a legal separation from my Dad. He saw her car parked at a motel that night and kicked the door down. He asked me if I wanted to go with him or stay with her. I was 9 at the time, it seemed that the right thing to do was to go with my Mom, and my Dad agreed to let me go.
My Dad had visitation rights every weekend. He didn't show up the first weekend. We waited and waited.
The next weekend I slept in, not expecting him. Then, of course, he arrived. I knew it was going to be a bad deal.
The first thing my Dad did was try and kill me. He kept saying over and over, "why don't you love me!? why don't you love me!?" He was driving so fast and i was too small to see over the dash. He said, "if you don't love me I'm going to hit that tree and kill both of us!" I knew he meant it. We were going very fast but I got the car door opened and was going to jump it. He pulled the car door closed. I screamed, "Okay, I love you, I love you, I love you." and he slowed the car down.
We went to go have something to eat at some diner. We got back in the car and I promptly fell asleep and woke up in VIRGINIA.
Dad enrolled me in public school. I told the principle what was happening. The principle called my mother and she came with her father. The law at the time was if the kid was with you in a state, that kid was yours. But my Dad again did give me the choice to stay with him or go with my mother, and I chose my Mother.
At some point we moved down to Florida. My Dad was taking his meds so my Mom allowed him to follow us. Things went bad quickly and Mom called him from my Grandma's house around the street and told him to leave. When it was my turn to talk to him he asked me if I wanted him to leave to and I said "yes". He cursed me and said that he wished the same thing that happened to him would happen to me, and I'm not altogether sure it hasn't.
I've never really known how to relate to other people except tp people that are a lot like me. I'm being treated as bi-polar, but I have Boderline-Personality-Disorder and Post-Traumatic-Syndrome. I've taken classes that have helped me deall with sciety better. But the meds don't work so well. I have panic attacks being around people and hearing loud noises, which is at most jobs. I have trouble sleeping.
That was the last time I ever spoke to my Dad. He committed suicide a week later. My brother lives on the streets in Miami. And my Mom remarried somebody that is the exact opposite of my Dad.

I have a concept for a fun diner. I'm 58, unemployed and nasty divorce and economy have left me trying to put a life together again with no resources and no credit. I have successfully run multiple locations. If you have any interest please comment with contact information. Thank you in advance. Donations for current daily living, also appreciated.

Well I am a pregnant mother of 2+1 on the way. I live with my husband and things were great. We got pregnant everything was ok...then the car breaks down 2 weeks before christmas..set us behind. Then the hours at his foundry got cut and i am only a 1 day a week waitress at a local diner. My pregnancy is high risk and i need to take it easy. My last daughter was 3 months early...but she is ok. I am 5 months along now but behind on everything. Just put all our money into our electric bill which isn't cheap so it wouldn't get turned off on 4/1. I'm trying to find more work and like i said i dont know what to do anymore i try to keep faith but it's so hard with the walls closing in and everything crashing down on us. 1000.00 behind on rent and landlords are gonna file eviction if we can't get caught up by the end of the month. Please anything at all.

Well I am a pregnant mother of 2+1 on the way. I live with my husband and things were great. We got pregnant everything was ok...then the car breaks down 2 weeks before christmas..set us behind. Then the hours at his foundry got cut and i am only a 1 day a week waitress at a local diner. My pregnancy is high risk and i need to take it easy. My last daughter was 3 months early...but she is ok. I am 5 months along now but behind on everything. Just put all our money into our electric bill which isn't cheap so it wouldn't get turned off on 4/1. I'm trying to find more work and like i said i dont know what to do anymore i try to keep faith but it's so hard with the walls closing in and everything crashing down on us. 1000.00 behind on rent and landlords are gonna file eviction if we can't get caught up by the end of the month. Please anything at all.

Well I am a pregnant mother of 2+1 on the way. I live with my husband and things were great. We got pregnant everything was ok...then the car breaks down 2 weeks before christmas..set us behind. Then the hours at his foundry got cut and i am only a 1 day a week waitress at a local diner. My pregnancy is high risk and i need to take it easy. My last daughter was 3 months early...but she is ok. I am 5 months along now but behind on everything. Just put all our money into our electric bill which isn't cheap so it wouldn't get turned off on 4/1. I'm trying to find more work and like i said i dont know what to do anymore i try to keep faith but it's so hard with the walls closing in and everything crashing down on us. 1000.00 behind on rent and landlords are gonna file eviction if we can't get caught up by the end of the month. Please anything at all.

Well I am a pregnant mother of 2+1 on the way. I live with my husband and things were great. We got pregnant everything was ok...then the car breaks down 2 weeks before christmas..set us behind. Then the hours at his foundry got cut and i am only a 1 day a week waitress at a local diner. My pregnancy is high risk and i need to take it easy. My last daughter was 3 months early...but she is ok. I am 5 months along now but behind on everything. Just put all our money into our electric bill which isn't cheap so it wouldn't get turned off on 4/1. I'm trying to find more work and like i said i dont know what to do anymore i try to keep faith but it's so hard with the walls closing in and everything crashing down on us. 1000.00 behind on rent and landlords are gonna file eviction if we can't get caught up by the end of the month. Please anything at all.

Well I am a pregnant mother of 2+1 on the way. I live with my husband and things were great. We got pregnant everything was ok...then the car breaks down 2 weeks before christmas..set us behind. Then the hours at his foundry got cut and i am only a 1 day a week waitress at a local diner. My pregnancy is high risk and i need to take it easy. My last daughter was 3 months early...but she is ok. I am 5 months along now but behind on everything. Just put all our money into our electric bill which isn't cheap so it wouldn't get turned off on 4/1. I'm trying to find more work and like i said i dont know what to do anymore i try to keep faith but it's so hard with the walls closing in and everything crashing down on us. 1000.00 behind on rent and landlords are gonna file eviction if we can't get caught up by the end of the month. Please anything at all.

Well I am a pregnant mother of 2+1 on the way. I live with my husband and things were great. We got pregnant everything was ok...then the car breaks down 2 weeks before christmas..set us behind. Then the hours at his foundry got cut and i am only a 1 day a week waitress at a local diner. My pregnancy is high risk and i need to take it easy. My last daughter was 3 months early...but she is ok. I am 5 months along now but behind on everything. Just put all our money into our electric bill which isn't cheap so it wouldn't get turned off on 4/1. I'm trying to find more work and like i said i dont know what to do anymore i try to keep faith but it's so hard with the walls closing in and everything crashing down on us. 1000.00 behind on rent and landlords are gonna file eviction if we can't get caught up by the end of the month. Please anything at all.