Teenage Workers Save Restaurant As Owner Spends Months In Hospital
Teenage Workers Save Restaurant As Owner Spends Months In Hospital
Teenage Workers Save Restaurant As Owner Spends Months In Hospital Carol Trainer, employee Lilly, and her husband Chad -credit, family photo A family-owned restaurant was saved by a gaggle of teenagers after the owner’s wife fell into a coma. From Hudson, Minnesota comes the story of the team at the heart of Urban Olive & Vine, and their dedication to a woman they’d come to know and love, Carol Trainer. Along with husband Chad, Carol founded the restaurant and recruited from the 14-18 year-old-age bracket, enjoying the opportunity to pass on critical work experience, and life experience besides, to the “sponge”-like minds of the eager recruits. But the tables were turned when Carol had a seizure, and entered a comatose state at the hospital that lasted for months. Chad, dutifully at her bedside, says he never asked one favor of his staff: they did it all themselves. What exactly did they do? “Without them the restaurant would not exist,” Chad tells Boyd Huppert’s Land of 10,000 Stories a…