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1. 4/11/2013 12:01:00 AM FREE HOUSE PAINTING FOR QUALIFIED SENIORS
   published by U.S. Fed News
   The town of Westminster issued the following news release:. Between March and September, Brothers Redevelopment works alongside event sponsors and hundreds of volunteers to paint the homes of income-qualified senior and disabled homeowners in cities across the Front Range at no charge. Applications must be received by May 31.
   
2. 3/1/2013 12:00:00 AM 40 At 40: through booms, busts, recessions and a digital revolution, here are 40 Colorado companies still going strong after four decades--or more
   published by ColoradoBiz
   40 At 40 through booms busts recessions and a digital revolution here are 40 Colorado companies still going strong after four decades or more ColoradoBiz ColoradoBiz turns the Big 1 0 in 2013 and seizing the moment to flex our journalistic muscle were offering up t1 narrative nod to some notable Colorado enterprises that have endured at least as long and in the process helped shape Colorado as we know it ColoradoBiz 40 At 40 is what the name suggests a look at 40 Colorado companies that not only have made their mark theyve done it for 40 plus yearsForty years ago this month a monumental mental feat in civil engineering bolstered Colorados ski industry in relation to the states biggest city and transportation hub In March 1973 the drive from Denver to Aspen was shortened by 10 miles saving drivers Hp to an hour as the First 40 foot wide bore of the Eisenhower Tunnel opened to motorists 1000 feet below the snaking crest of Loveland Pass Already Aspen was getting its Glitter Gulch notoriety but it still had that rough n tumble look of the mining town where silver barons once cavorted with roustaboutsAs ColoradoBiz then Colorado Business magazine published its First edition Aspen Skiing Co had been in business 27 years Walter Paepcke founder of Aspen Skiing Co as well as The Aspen Institute set a cultural stage in an otherwise small mountain town one of many actors whose vision had a hand in transforming the stateOn to Something Childhood friends Ira Rothgerber and Walter Appel grew up in Denver in the 1890s attending East High School and later venturing to the University of Colorado In school they shared a single room with no indoor plumbing Alter bonding in close quarters with schooling and practical experience under their belts the two felt prepared to join forces opening their own law firm in 1903Just the two man shop for the first 30 years when the desire for expansion surged to the point of action Ira Rothgerber Jr and Bill Johnson stepped up to the plateIn the late 1960s Johnson successfully challenged banking standards pioneering the one bank holding company structure Such regulations allowed bank holding companies to become vehicles for efficient debt management introducing a new structure for community bank ownership still widely used todayIn 1971 the firm hired Jim Lyons one of the most respected trial lawyers in the region ultimately forming Rothgerber Johnson & LyonsOur fundamental internal relationships are in many ways like a family Lyons saidAnd the family extends beyond its legal tiesThe low firm founders were also involved in establishing First Bank in 1963 The Colorado based bank was one of few financial institutions to experience consistent growl It during the recent recessionOur connections provide a platform for all of us to be successful Lyons saidStepping in our time machine and going as far back in history as our 40 At 10 takes us we arrive in 1873 where Bnusterism a uniquely American combination of faith in the future and strident promotion defined a companys destiny and a decade of growth in the fluid Colorado societyThat year German brewing apprentices Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler stowed away on a trans Atlantic ship with determination to fashion their own brew Once hitting land they journeyed westward into the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in search la necessary water supply stumbling into Golden when springs near Clear Creek provided crisp water from snow capped mountainsLucky for Coors Colorado miners were willing to spend t heir hard earned gold dust on beerCraft brews have developed into the cats meow by todays standards especially in the Centennial State vet today more than a century after its origination the Golden Brewers part of the Miller Coors joint vent tire is the largest single site brewery worldwide and the birthplace of Coors Brewing Co which merged wit Molson in 2005Coon is a great example of longevity and institutionalism that spans generations in one city under one bat tier providing connectivity to nu r region city state its incomparable sa id Denver Mayor Michael HancockRoughly three years alter Coors debut family business Lutist Materials planted its roots in Summit County utilizing local resources and recognizing its strategic space to provide multiple Colorado communities construction materials and servicesThe small mountain communities of t he North Central Rocky Mountains have successfully developed which stimulates construction activity said Greg Norwick Everists current presidentToward the end of the 19th century the Denver Pacific Railway stabilized Colorados economy bringing residents tourists trade manufacturing agriculture and ranchingColorado knew we would not be relevant unless we connected and industried came out of that Hancock observedFrontier entrepreneurs worked collectively as community builders and leaders Today the same spirit still holds true as public and private partnerships advance our state according to Buz Koelbel president of longtime developer Koelbel and CoAs illustrated historicall the ability to connect the complex landscape of the state has opened countless opportunities for Coloradi businessesOn the mend Between 187c and 1890 manufacturing output skyrocketed from 600000 to 40 million and Denvers population grew twenty foldThereafter with willingness to innovate yet faithful to its core business and niche market the Denver Machine Shop blazed a trail for many leaders in the budding sustainability marketFounded in 1916 Fred A Whites business has been passed down lour generations to substitute a dispose and replace mentality in exchange lb extending equipment lie with a repair rebuild and reuse paradigmWe still maintain the core of our business supplying and repairing parts lor a variety of industries Sustainability goes back to the heart of craftsmanship said Scott White who currentyl owns the repair shop with his twin brother EricLikewise Colorado Demolition & Deconstruction has emphasized environmental diversity by enabling materials for recycling and re purposing since 1973Schacht Spindle Co has demonstrated similar devotion to craftsmanship for more than 441 years with continued community interest in hand woven workWhite says a major challenge in manufacturing has been finding new talent to bring onboardMost modern parents dream of their kick going to college With manufacturing they picture smoke stacks and dirt under fingernails so weve lost a generation White saysAdditionally MWH Global a Denver based leader in wet infrastructure and water engineering has sought opportunities from the obstacles of their own impending workforce shortagesWhile manufacturing and engineering has experienced its own set of challenges content manufacturers have endured tumultuous times as fast food style com munication has evolved throughout the 20th and 21st centuriesThere are many complicated components at play in the equation that result in the longevity of a business said The Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis who partially attributes the bookstores success since 1971 to the ability to adapt to chaning market conditionsIn spite of the ongoing death of the written word discourse Josh Awtry executive editor of the 140 year old Fort Collins newspaper The Coloradoan contends that contrary to popular opinion the news business is doing anythingbut dying despite changes in technology lifestyle and generational shiftsOr as White puts it The trick has been reminding people that anything can be fixedWith comparable optimism in a return to craftsmanship sustainable practices and traditional values Lovelands Porter Industries has delivered service with a can do attitude and attempted to squelch the stereotype that cleaning crews are mindless automatons since the 1960s As Larhner County developed from railroad stop to metropolitan Porter found its niche with full service cleaning and facilities managementThough the economic boom of the 80s and 90s made for prosperous times for Porter downturns have resulted in corporate contract cutsThat can be a penny wise pound foolish approach said Steve Hendrickson Porters vice president and chief business development officer Over time a well executed high performance cleaning program can have an impact on indoor air quality Weve always been optimistic about Colorado doing better than the national economic pictureAnd Ball Corps director of communications and engagement tends to agreeColorado is a good place to base a multinational company like ours said Balls Scott McCartyRather than stick to the adage if it aint broke in 1969 Ball acquired an aluminum can plant based in Golden at a time when the majority of beverages were housed in sire cans In a refusal to conform to confining standards the company built the largest recyclable aluminum beverage can business to dateSeveral years following Broomfield acquired 118 year old Ball Corps headquarters embracing its We can methodologyThe combination of this amazing setting which draws smart and innovative people and the respect for new ideas has been beneficial for Ball McCarty saidOn the rise With the people and supplies necessary to solidify dominance in the region the stage was set in post World War II Colorado for major expansion with a premonition the state could become a major global playerOur firms longevity and continuity can be attributed to its adaptability in the face of an ever changing economy said H Joshua Gould chairman and CEO of architecture design and engineering firm RNLOther companies that have executed essential infrastructural elements and design to develop Colorados cities and beyond include Hensel Phelps Construction Co PCL Construction Enterprises Inc SLATERPAULL Architects H L Architecture Koelbel & Co Oz Architecture Brothers Redevelopment Inc Merrick & Co and Intermountain Electric a subsidiary of Quanta Service IncLike Aspens Paepcke had in the mountains only 20 years prior David Neenan envisioned improving the human condition with his work in 1966 After losing seven times his net worth on a failed construction project in Casper 1Vvo his firm The Neenan o developed a collaborative approach to business dubbed Arch in structure By connecting design construction and project finance he improved tense interactions between divide and conquer style project management reducing time and expenseShortly there after in 1973 The ground started to swell when 37900 new jobs appeared in Colorado Colorado Business reported in its October 1983 anniversary issueTo fill the homes of newly developed neighborhoods Colorado wide real estate.
   
3. 3/1/2013 12:00:00 AM The weeklies: in the Denver suburbs, as in much of the U.S., the Great Recession turned formerly stable families into the new homeless--and left many living in budget hotels
   published by The American Prospect
   The weeklies in the Denver suburbs as in much of the US the Great Recession turned formerly stable families into the new homeless and left many living in budget hotels The American Prospect From the outside it is hard to know that people live in the Ramada Inn The parking lot is always empty The hotel sits facing a wide suburban boulevard called Kipling Street just off Interstate 70 in Wheat Ridge Colorado The interchange where Kipling meets the freeway is packed mornings and evenings with daily commuters going to or coming from Denver and with skiers heading west into the Rockies Hotels dot 1 70 as it cuts through the 764 square mile stretch of suburbia that runs from the city into the mountains but at the intersection with Kipling is a cluster of seven budget savers that travel websites warn tourists away from The hotels advertise low prices ranging from 36 to 89 a night on neon signs next to gigantic flags that whip in the Front Range wind Most offer even lower weekly or monthly rates The Ramada is farther from the frontage road than the other hotels and is harder to notice with its plain yellow stucco and dimly lit red signInside the lobby which has wide windows and a clear view of a long low mountain called Table Top and the snowy peaks beyond are plenty of clues that the Ramada is more than just a hotel Off the lobby sit two sets of washers and dryers that each take a dollar in quarters and on weekends families use one of the bellhop carts kept in a back hall to roll out baskets of dirty laundry In the late afternoon schoolchildren do their homework on the dozen tables where guests have breakfast Residents sit at the two computers with Internet connections They wander around in sock clad feet and chat with whomever they run intoAt any given time roughly 20 to 40 guests are staying long term Since they pay by the week they call themselves weeklies To score the cheap rates 210 for individuals and slightly more for families they must pay in advance Residents sign a form that lists the activities that could get them kicked out mostly involving drugs and warns that they wont get reimbursed if they leave early no exceptions Some families stay only for a few weeks some for months giving the hotel the feeling of a dormitory A rotating cast of front desk clerks sells candy and rations towels and washcloths Though some of the clerks are kind and helpful the guests think of them as enforcers and the clerks tend to treat the weeklies less as customers than as undergraduates stealing toilet paper and sneaking in hot platesWith its 121 rooms cleaning service and keycards the place is not a fleabag But it is also not the kind of hotel where the coffee pots and hair dryers reliably work or the comforters match the drapes A traveler stopping here to avoid bad weather might notice the difference a clerk who takes a little too long to offer grudging help an absence of name tags for the staff an empty spot on the placard that is supposed to provide the managers name a stained lobby carpet a guest or two with a slightly illicit auraHotels have always served people who need an off the record place to live sex workers drug dealers and the Ramada has its share of people who are hiding out Bounty hunters come to the hotel so often that the weeklies know their names and say hi But in the aftermath of the Great Recession the Ramadas clientele shifted away from such regulars to include suburban families who had been used to staying in hotels only on vacations Many of the families still had incomes Some had long been struggling members of the working class fighting to stay better than broke others had fallen suddenly out of the middle classAcross the country suburban poverty rose by more than half in the first decade of the new century Families now find themselves navigating landscapes that were built around wealth single family houses that are sold not rented too few apartment buildings and government agencies hidden at the far edge of the suburban ring more responsive to trash pickup complaints than rising hunger ratesThe Ramada families became homeless because they could no longer pay rents and mortgages and found little help to slow their fall In 2011 Colorado ranked eighth in foreclosures nationwide When families in Jefferson County which encompasses Denvers western suburbs lost their home in the recession they flooded a market that had the lowest number of rental vacancies in ten years The Section 8 program in the area dispenses vouchers through a random lottery that typically has about 2500 applicants in any given year only 30 to 40 spots become available The school system which keeps the best records of homelessness in the county says the number of homeless students rose from 59 in 2001 to 2812 in the current school year Unable to find another home and unable to find space in the countys shelters which hold fewer than 100 beds the new poor disappeared into the suburban landscape wherever they could find a roof With nowhere else to go they turned the Ramada Inn into an impromptu SROHomeowners lost their homes and here we are says Bonnie a 53 year old who lives with her husband and son in the Ramada This is where the homeowners are Bonnies family used to live in the small brick ranch in southwest Denver shed grown up in as an adult she stayed and helped her father pay off the original mortgage But during the mortgage boom she and her husband Andy took out a home equity loan Nationally 1 trillion in such loans were doled out in those years Like subprime mortgages these were often loans with hidden fees and adjustable rates that eventually made monthly payments impossibly high When the crash came the destruction didnt differentiate between those whod become new homebuyers with bad subprimes and those like Bonnie and Andy whod taken out loans on houses they already ownedA defining characteristic of what it means to be middle class is now out of reach for a group of people who less than a decade ago would not have called themselves anything else Theyve lost not just incomes and homes Theyve lost who they wereBonnie never leaves her room without wearing makeup and a matching set of jewelry big brightly colored pieces that complement her sweaters which she wears with jeans and sneakers To get ready in the morning she steps outside the back exit near her room and uses its glass door as a mirror shellacking her short brown hair upward with hair spray that otherwise would fill the room she shares with Andy and their 14 year old son DrewThe three have been packed into hotels for more than a year Drew is still enrolled in his middle school in Denver in a southwestern neighborhood of the city called Bear Valley Bonnie has school correspondence sent to a friends house nearby so that officials wont know that the family has moved out of the district and into a hotel They are afraid of getting in trouble for not residing in the district but even more they are afraid Drews schoolmates will pick on him if word gets out that hes homeless Drew short and thin with a bowl shaped cap of dark hair and the beginnings of a beard and mustache has a way of hunching over and clasping his hands in front of his chest a shy kid trying to make himself smaller Andy is a 60 year old from Colorados farmlands in the San Luis Valley He wears flannel shirts and leather vests and balances a baseball cap on top of his scraggly gray hair His long mustache frames his mouth fixed in a half smile half scowl Whenever Andy was asked how he was doing hed answer TerribleAny time they were getting ready for a trip or trying to decide what to eat Andy would wave his hand and say I dont decide anything and hed let Bonnie take over Bonnie never lets a conversation slip into silence or a question hang in the air shes always talking No matter the subject Bonnie will let her voice crescendo to a near yell Thats especially true when she recounts what she refers to as That Mess We Got Into the circumstances that led to her sharing Room 124 in the back hallway of the Ramada with her husband and son Much of her fury is reserved for the banks especially Countrywide Financial What they did to her family was illegal Bonnie tells everyone who will listen They were the ones who actually created the problem in the housing market Instead of helping the homeowners that got caught in this the government bailed the banks outLike so many others Bonnie and Andy were caught in an unfamiliar system and lacked the know how it takes to work it Bonnies house was in a working class neighborhood called Westwood While she was in high school she and her father had opened a landscaping business she also took day jobs throughout her adulthood When she met and married Andy in 1992 they both helped her father They kept up the landscaping business after her father died in 2000 Between that and their other jobs they pulled in a middle class salary Back then it was 80000 at least she saidTwo years after Bonnies father died she became ill and left the job shed been working for 15 years at a local elementary school She didnt rush back to work because the loss of her job alone wasnt financially devastating The landscaping business had been a steady source of income Until it wasnt As the recession began some customers started cutting back on services or taking longer to settle bills Bonnie and Andy began to feel the crunch in 2007 Our customers didnt want to pay us because it was hitting them too Thats how we got behind because we couldnt get our money Bonnie says Thats where you lose when you dont get paid You put out gas you put out for the equipment and your time and you get nothing for itAndy had a job at a foundry but his bosses began cutting his hours during the downturn So Andy took out a home equity loan from Countrywide in 2007 for 48000 to keep the family afloat We wouldnt have taken out the loan had we known they were crooked Bonnie says We never would have used that moneyThey took out an additional 20000 to refinance the loan and avoid a balloon payment when the interest rates rose The principal swelled to 68000 at a time when Andys hours at the foundry had dwindled to almost nothing It was a stretch to make the 300 monthly loan payment When Andys boss asked him to start working on an on call basis meaning his hours werent guaranteed and could be as low as 20 hours a month he refused He was laid off What gets me is some people say its better to take a low paying job than to get laid off Bonnie says But if the money doesnt cover the bills if the money isnt enough to even feed your family why would you do it I mean would you work at a job that doesnt pay you enough of what you needDo the math Andy says Twenty hours a month times nine bucks Understand what Im saying Bonnie says breaking in Especially if youve got a family Ive got a son whos 14In February 2011 Bonnie says someone knocked on her door and told them his company owned her house She and Andy refused to leave Around this time they got a flier in the mail from a company called Colorado Home Savers Theyd gone everywhere for help ACORN a local nonprofit called Brothers Redevelopment the office of their congresswoman Diana DeGette and everyone advised them to cut their losses and walk away from their home Nobody promised what the agent from Colorado Home Savers did that they could stay in their house He seemed nice Bonnie says Well Andy seemed to think he was OKI shook his hand and he seemed trustworthy Andy saysBonnie and Andy say they arranged to pay off their debt with Colorado Home Savers but the company never sent any documents and stopped returning their phone calls The organization still has an active website but the listed number is no longer in service The Denver Public Trustees office which handles foreclosures in the city posted a notice of eviction on their door in December 2011 Bonnie and Andy never tried to contact the trustees office which is how they could have challenged the evictionThe family had to leave in February 2012 the weekend after Valentines Day My husband and I our parents wanted better for us than what they had Bonnie says And its gone backwardsThey had to move quickly Andy called around for places to stay He would have been content for his family to sleep in their 1997 Chevy Suburban for free except that keeping Drew in school meant they needed a place to clean up because nothing said homeless like being dirty He found a cheap room in a Motel 6 across the freeway from the Ramada where they could keep their eat They moved to the Ramada in June because it was both nicer and cheaperThey console themselves with the thought that they were ready to leave Westwood anyway Bonnie remembers growing up in a nice middle class neighborhood but now she says its more like a rundown border town full of Mexican immigrants She wants to move to Bear Valley the neighborhood surrounding Drews school where houses are a bit bigger lawns are kept neater and fewer ambulances are called for fights on Saturday nightsShe and her family often drive by an empty house they like an L shaped brick ranch down the street from the family friends they have their mail sent to In fact they spend all their free time in Bear Valley after they pick Drew up from school they grab dinner at the prepared food counter of the local grocery store King Soopers They go to the King Soopers cheese counter for free tastings on Saturdays They drive to the neighborhood for big shopping trips at the Wal Mart or Costco skipping the stores closer to the hotelI would have sold my house if I got my stuff straightened out and moved to Bear Valley Bonnie says I couldve probably gotten my stuff straightened out had they worked with meDrew cant understand why the banks didnt try to work with his parents From his point of view they had worked hard to try to make payments and he knew whoever bought the house after the foreclosure had paid less than his parents owed One day Bonnie and Drew took a drive past their old house He asked why the banks didnt make a deal with herThey wouldnt have lost that much money he saidThey wouldnt have lost anything Bonnie snapped backThe Ramada was built in 1972 amid a development boom outside Denver Wheat Ridge is an old farm town that became a city in the late 1960s when every bit of flat land between Denver and the mountains began to fill up with bedroom communities and subdivisions connecting old frontier downtowns into a grid of unvarying suburbThe hotel was bought in 2004 by a businessman who goes by the name of Bruce Rahmani His legal name is Gholemreza Rahmani Azar and he now owns 46 properties mostly hotels along the Front Range corridor under one corporate name Colorado Hospitality Services Its corporate office is in another Ramada in a northern suburb called Northglenn off a different interstate On a hill with a bright view of the snowy mountains this Ramada is many shades nicer than the one in Wheat Ridge It has a restaurant and a flora filled sunken lobby An office just off the entry way books weddings and other big events Across the hall is Rahmanis office He declined to be interviewed and claimed he had little to do with the property where the weeklies live He referred me to a property manager named Melissa who did not respond to requests for commentThe hotels residents know who Bruce is though Theyve seen him come by on Sundays to collect money from the washers and dryers and they know he issues commands that affect their daily lives From the perspective of the Ramada families he has one rule that he wants observed above all others no children in the lobby or hallways If he drives up and one of the nice clerks is on duty shell yell Bruce and whoever is in the lobby runs back to their room Once he told a clerk that she should tell Andy to shave his scraggly gray beard Drew is so terrified of him he rarely ventures out These people have rooms a guest once heard Bruce sayFor everyone but Drew the threat of Bruce is a minor problem compared to those suffocating rooms They feel especially small with entire families and all their belongings squeezed in between two double or even queen size beds The one spot where they can try to build a home a communal one at any rate is at the tables or on the brown leather couch in the lobby and even that is off limits when Bruce comes by The Ramada relies on the weeklies financially they occupy more than a quarter of its 121 rooms but Bruce it seems doesnt want anyone to know it His edicts are meant to wipe away any sign that the hotel doubles as a homeBonnie Andy and Drew live in an isolated room in the back southeast corner of the hotel next to a rear exit and a boiler room A hot plate and a small refrigerator to the right of their doorway constitute a kitchen they have to walk through it to get to the bathroom They lost their storage unit because they couldnt afford the 300 a month in fees so all of their clothes are looped over plastic hangers stacked between the walls and the beds This is what I miss most of all having a closet Bonnie says pointing to a slim armoire that contains more clothes Because all they give us is this I mean how many clothes can it fit This is some of our clothing there in the corner and boxed up too and in the carIn the low dresser which holds the TV on top theyve filed their papers the tax returns application forms and schoolwork every family keeps Drew stores poster boards for school projects slipped between the armoire and the dresser and does his schoolwork on his bed In the fall of 2012 he studied mold for a science fair project and would leave slices of wheat sandwich bread in Ziploc bags around the room the entire semester their eat stepped on one and tore it Their desk is crowded with two desktop computers a laptop and a printer One of their dresser drawers holds computer games for Drew Shortly after they moved in the games became a draw for another boy about Drews age a 13 year old named AJAJ is already six feet tall with a crown of dark curly hair Hes lived with his grandparents since his mother died when he was four and his little brother Beau was a baby Everyone agreed that had aged AJ up He tends to be exasperated with kids his age when other boys in the hotel would complain that nothing was on television hed roll his eyes and tell them to read a book I tend to have adult friends he says Im not like most kids my age For Bonnie and Andy AJ was a son who wasnt quite a son they could tease him about girlfriends at school without worrying whether he had done his homework they saw in him a kid who collected older friends and realized he must need themAJs family lost their house when his grandfather Mikes business he provided Federal Aviation Administration safety information to private pilots and sold it in easy to use databases took a nosedive in the recession and they fell behind on their rent The sheriff came to evict them just a few days after AJ and his brother finished the school year in 2011 It was around 9 AM on a Saturday I was being an 11 year old trying to manage everything the best I can AJ says When they evict you its not nice If its too big to bag its Chuck it out the door And if its small enough to bag you bag it and then you chuck it out the door He spent the next year with his grandmother Judy and his little brother at an aunts house in Oklahoma The small house was crowded with eight people and only two bathrooms The following June Judy drove the boys back to Colorado to join Mike in the Ramada almost the same time that Bonnie and Andy moved in AJ stayed with his grandmother in the front hallway his grandfather and Beau who is nine had a separate room but the crowded Room 124 where Drew and his parents lived was somehow more funShared misery will bring people together and since many of the Ramada families had similar working class backgrounds they believed their poverty was a temporary state That involved some self deception part of the reason Bonnie and Andy were stuck in the hotel was that they wouldnt consider renting or moving to neighborhoods more affordable than the solidly middle class Bear Valley Bonnie had owned a home and she wanted to own one againFor the time being the hotel and its community offered advantages that would have been unavailable to the families if theyd scattered into rental houses or transitional housing programs throughout the neighborhoods that make up Jefferson County They had each otherAJ and Bonnie bonded in the summer after a new clerk was hired The clerk was clueless about running the breakfast buffet and asked the two of them to do it for her It never occurred to them to ask for pay but it became a regular gig Theyd arrive at 5 or 530 in the morning and refill bagel and donut trays and juice pitchers and make waffle batter The clerks got used to it and would often ask them for help on other tasksSo I came down for breakfast AJ says recalling the first morning he served breakfast Amber who worked here a week only a week goes one morning AJ can you do me a favor And keep in mind I came down here for breakfast so Im eating and I have toast in front of me and cereal and a bagel Im like Gnaw gnaw gnaw And she goes Can you do me a favor Can you work the breakfast bar Im like What Im eating breakfast Shes like But but and Im like Fine So then Im floodedNext thing I know Bonnie says Andys coming down to the room and hes like Bonnie can you go over to the breakfast bar AJ needs help Hes doing breakfast by himselfI did pretty darn well AJ says mock offended I had everything refilledI came down here and he goes Bonnie look at this Im all by myself I said Calm down calm down its not as bad as well maybe.