I’m recovering nicely from the procedure on Tuesday. I walked a lot and even drove yesterday but I’m paying for that today. The plan, right, here it is:
I decided not to order more meat to the Monarch last week so we’re going to keep going until its all gone and once its gone, we’re done. I don’t expect the meat supply to last until the end of the month. The new place should be open in late August so that’ll give us a month to figure everything out. There’s a pretty big “to do” list when you open a restaurant.
The biggest reason for closing this early was staffing. Christopher got accepted to teachers’ college, Megan’s moving back to BC and Catherine’s going to Europe with her mom for three weeks and it seems everyone else wanted a week off here or there. Everyone except Andy. Andy and I worked together at Magic Oven before he moved to Western Canada to make big bucks drilling oil. We’ll figure out something for Andy. Anyway, this way everyone gets a week off, a week to train and then we’re open.
Personally, there no sad emotions about leaving the Monarch. It has been a fantastic place to get started, an authentic Toronto tradition that I’m honoured to be a part of and a place I know I’ll continue to visit fro time to time.
Anyway, I thought you’d like to know.
