A customer of Gram Gram’s Soulfood in Euclid reached out to News 5 earlier this month with a plea for help as the restaurant was withering away.
The restaurant owner, Dawna Blount, previously told News 5 that August’s storms knocked out her power and forced her to cook all of her inventory. She gave it away for free.
‘I don’t want to leave’: Popular Euclid soul food restaurant shut down for weeks, begging for help
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A week later, her stove and cooler failed her.
Blount said she paid two men to fix those appliances —which cost $700 in total.
However, Blount stated that neither individual returned to finish the job, which, in turn, dug her deeper and deeper into debt.
“I’ve de-plenished everything I have. I don’t even have more money to buy food,” Blount said on Sept. 9.
Gram Gram’s Soulfood shut down for more than three weeks.
“I figured nobody would help me,” Blount said.