We learned yesterday (Saturday) that the cafe, J. M. Gerrish's Provisions, in Winter Harbor, Maine, has been sold to Michael Boland, a restauranteur from Bar Harbor, effective immediately.
We spent the better part of this past week preparing the foods, various soups and sandwich components, as well as filling all the deli and ice cream cases, getting ready for the big opening on Tuesday 12 June. Now it appears that the opening will be delayed but beyond that we know very little.
By the end of Friday we were pretty much ready to open so Patrick gave the staff the weekend off. Susan, however, wanted to do so more prep work, so she went into the cafe Saturday morning where she encountered one of the owner's personal staff who informed her of the sale. She was also told that there would be a meeting of all staff Monday morning, presumably with the new owner, to discuss the future of the cafe.
So beyond that we know nothing else.
A concern of major proportions of course is what would happen to our living arrangement. One of the attractions for us coming to Winter Harbor was that accommodations would be provided by the cafe's owner, and Susan was told that that would not change. In other words, the former owner would continue to let both Susan and I as well as the four Russians now working here, to live in her other buildings.
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