Figuring out now that McKay’s lease was ending “and giving us zero discover, it was devastating,” she mentioned.
Suiter, 37, who was a bakery worker on the Pine Cone for the previous yr, mentioned she doesn’t know whether or not McKay used the PPP cash to pay his employees, however mentioned he employed his son, daughter and spouse full-time this previous summer season, when previously they’d simply fill in.
She mentioned McKay advised his staff he was being audited and gave most of his servers backpay of their most up-to-date paychecks.
“It was very, very tough to swallow seeing the government-blaming signal he put up when he didn’t cite that as any of the numerous causes he gave us,” she mentioned.
Suiter mentioned she needs McKay would have gone to the proprietor of the Pine Cone restaurant in Johnson Creek to see if he needed to take over the DeForest restaurant. She mentioned McKay admitted to employees that he didn’t attempt to discover a purchaser locally.
McKay advised the Wisconsin State Journal that he’s mates with the proprietor of the opposite Pine Cone, which remains to be working.
The DeForest Pine Cone’s web site reveals that it had been in enterprise for 49 years.
“Since The Pine Cone’s starting in 1973, we’ve taken nice delight in bringing you meals that’s of very good high quality,” the web site says. “We consider The Pine Cone is a dwelling hyperlink to the occasions previous when meals was plentiful and costs have been proper. Upholding this customary and offering our prospects with excellent service is considerably of a motto for us.”