ROANOKE, VA – Local businesses in downtown Roanoke are grappling with significant revenue losses as a severe winter storm forced many establishments to modify their operations or close entirely.
Popular breakfast and brunch spot Scrambled typically has around 100 customers on Tuesday. Instead, the breakfast hot spot saw only about 15 patrons brave the snow-covered streets to dine in.
“It’s beautiful, of course, but it really hurts us,” said Scrambled Co-Owner Garry Fleming. “We close on Sunday — that’s our biggest day of the week — and so we missed all of that revenue. We were closed yesterday, but we are always closed on Monday, and so today we thought, let’s come down and see what’s going on.”…