Ponti said he's grateful for the support the community has shown his restaurant. "What we were trying to put out that people have to understand is that these small family operations being restaurants, beauty shops, or other small stores in the area, clothing stores, they will not be around long if people somehow do not support," Ponti said. Ponti hopes people continue to support small businesses. They too are fundraising on GoFundMe to save their business. A restaurant near Columbus, Cafe Creekside faced a similar fate. Our dining room of course is very limited right now, because we can only seat less than half of the dining room, but even the dining room is getting little more visitors than it did the past 10 months."īalaton isn't the only restaurant in Ohio turning to crowdfunding to keep their doors open. “The amount of takeout orders became more solid and near constant. "Not only GoFundMe was a vehicle for immediate help by our customer base and people whoever knows these kinds of international foods and the foodies, but also our takeout orders,” Ponti said.
Within 10 days, the goal was met with the fund now sitting at more than $65,000. The GoFundMe was set up with a goal of $60,000. The family set up a GoFundMe account to help raise money to cover rent and other bills from 2020 that they fell behind on. “Almost shy that oh we don't dare to do anything like this because what will people think if we start putting out the laundry. "We were very modest about it,” Ponti said. When the restaurant was facing closure because of the lasting impacts of COVID-19 and less business, Ponti and his family knew they had to do something to save it. "When grandma and our uncle, Luis, retired, that was about ’96-‘97 and the next generation took over the restaurant," said Ponti.
Balaton Restaurant in Cleveland started a GoFundMe to help cover past due rent and bills because of COVID-19.
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