{"id":2455799,"date":"2020-03-14T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/"},"modified":"2020-03-14T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T04:40:00","slug":"some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Aspen businesses not open to closing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.1979166666667\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-322665-442\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1024x707.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | Polly and David Dunn enjoy lunch at Meat and Cheese during one of their stays in Aspen on Saturday, March 13, 2020. 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(Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1024x707.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1024x707.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Polly and David Dunn enjoy lunch at Meat and Cheese during one of their stays in Aspen on Saturday, March 13, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1-1024x595.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | A couple sits in the right window of Brunelleschi\u2019s during lunch on Saturday, March 13, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.47321428571429\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.4642857142857\">\n<p><strong>A couple sits in the right window of Brunelleschi\u2019s during lunch on Saturday, March 13, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1-1024x595.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/coronaeconomics-atd-031520-1-1-1024x595.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A couple sits in the right window of Brunelleschi\u2019s during lunch on Saturday, March 13, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">While an ominous feel hung over downtown Saturday morning, plenty of restaurants and businesses were keeping their doors open despite Aspen\u2019s status as a \u201chot spot\u201d for coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Businesses put on their best faces knowing unprecedented challenges didn\u2019t await them; they were here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a little odd, a little precarious for a business to be open right now,\u201d said Andrea Klaphake, market manager of Meat &amp; Cheese. \u201cWe can try to speculate about what\u2019s going to happen, but I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For the time being \u2014 at around 10:45 a.m. Saturday \u2014 the Hopkins Avenue eatery and shop, which is part of downtown\u2019s Restaurant Row, had no plans to close because of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe have employees that have to pay rent,\u201d Klaphake said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dining tables were spaced farther apart than usual, showing the business was being mindful of social distancing, which is being recommended by the health departments in Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties to stem the outbreak. Social distancing includes limiting contact of people within 6 feet from each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Also not ready to call it a season was Home Team BBQ, a gathering place for apres ski crowds and a locals hangout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf you aren\u2019t comfortable going out to a meal, give a shout. \u2026 We\u2019ll deliver,\u201d the restaurant, which is located at the base of Buttermilk Ski Area and inside the Inn at Aspen, said on its Facebook page in a Friday post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Saturday, co-owner Kutcher Miller said Home Team feels a need to keep grinding and its employees are being \u201cbeyond diligent in providing a safe, sanitary dining and gathering environment for our patrons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Miller said Home Team will drop food off at the diners\u2019 doorsteps. More details are at alohaorderonline.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Home Team\u2019s Facebook page promoted businesses by urging people who couldn\u2019t dine at the barbecue restaurant to \u201cvisit your other top notch local dining establishments in this time of lesser travel and tourism. We must support each other! \u2026 We\u2019re in this together, y\u2019all \u2026 we will get by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Getting by was how the Grateful Deli\u2019s Glenn Wood was treating Saturday morning, as he dutifully prepared sandwiches for customers who have included Pitkin County\u2019s incident command team on the front lines of what indisputably is a town-wide and international crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Main Street deli is take-out only. Wood said it will remain open \u201cunless they (the government) tell us otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There are still ways to burn off those calories, or at least that\u2019s what Jordan Bullock, owner of the Pure Barre on Hyman Avenue, was hoping Friday. She said she would keep the fitness studio open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe kind of want to be a respite in this coronavirus storm,\u201dBullock said, \u201cA place where people can come and feel safe, and we are cleaning up like storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Social distancing is a must at the studio, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe feel that our clients that are feeling under the weather will stay home, but we want to give our other clients who are feeling healthy and strong the chance to come in and work out and feel even healthier than they do now,\u201d Bullock said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Bear Den Aspen had been seeing mainly just local costumers the past few days, said David Small Wood, morning manager of the cafe and bakery that opened four weeks ago on East Hopkins Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Their plan remained to stay open knowing that those plans could change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe are scaling back,\u201d he said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A few doors down across the street, Tatanka had a sign saying it was closed, while around the corner on Monarch Street, Of Grape and Grain was closed. The sushi restaurant Matsuhisa also was closing Saturday, while other restaurants such as Mezzaluna were staying open, an employee said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Friday, Michael Gross, manager of the RX Root, said they had actually been seeing a rush from customers worried the marijuana dispensary might have to temporarily shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe\u2019ve told employees that if they have symptoms to stay home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:rcarroll@aspentimes.com\">rcarroll@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/some-aspen-businesses-not-open-to-closing-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly and David Dunn enjoy lunch at Meat and Cheese during one of their stays in Aspen on Saturday, March 13, 2020. 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