SANTA MONICA (CBSLA) – The homeowners of Cafe Lucy, a Korean restaurant that served most of the surrounding companies earlier than the pandemic, turned to Instagram once they launched SonSoo Kitchen, a profitable connoisseur grocery supply service.
Like so many different native restaurateurs, Lucy Row and her sister Lauren Row, who has run Cafe Lucy for 15 years, needed to shut their doorways throughout the pandemic.
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“We may have opened the shop,” mentioned Lauren Hermela Aregawi of CBSLA, “however we thought it would not generate that a lot enterprise.”
Each sisters have kids and mentioned it could have been prohibitive to ship their kids to daycare throughout the pandemic.
Lucy mentioned she was inspired by buddies who love her meals to begin a enterprise on Instagram. That is precisely what she and her husband Ryan Lee, who was a chef at a Japanese restaurant, did once they opened SonSoo Kitchen, a Korean connoisseur ready-to-eat seafood supply service.
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SonSoo began with a menu merchandise, the marinated salmon. Since then, they’ve expanded the menu.
“Prospects’ favourite dishes are soy-marinated salmon, soy-marinated prawns, and spicy prawns,” mentioned Lucy. “Our dishes are standard and well-known within the Korean group, however not a lot by outsiders. Most individuals are conversant in Korean barbecue and bibimbap, however that is actually a uncommon merchandise. So I need extra consideration and I am comfortable that individuals are having fun with our meals. “
The sisters say an Instagram-based firm allowed them flexibility with their schedules, however it additionally had challenges.
“There are a number of ups and downs as a result of we’re not likely tech freaks. So it was somewhat tough to learn to arrange the job and work together with our clients, ”admitted Lucy.
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Whereas SonSoo Kitchen is doing positive and hoping to sooner or later open a seated restaurant with a fair greater menu, the household says they miss seeing their clients in particular person and ultimately wish to reopen Café Lucy.
