After spending 20 years in public education as a teacher and administrator, Christina Schindler has embarked on a business venture with her family as the CEO of the Modern Stone Age Kitchen, a restaurant in Chestertown, MD that optimizes nutrition in modern foods through ancestral techniques to create healthy food for the community. Christina also serves as President of the Eastern Shore Food Lab, a non-profit that is focused on creating a nourishing, ethical and sustainable food system through education, outreach and research. Most importantly, Christina is a mother of three busy young-adults and Dr. Bill Schindler’s high-tech other half.
Instead of a typical blog post that Bill writes on here every week, we decided to share this social media post we did over the weekend with you all, because it impacts us ALL – regardless of where we are in the world or what you are shopping for.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and our small towns and extreme weather can drastically impact them.
From Christina: As a former public school educator, I used to get so excited for snow days! Pjs backwards. Ice cubes in the toilet. Spoons under the pillows – the whole 9-yards with the kids.
But now as a small business owner who employs over 20 people, snow and ice bring sleepless nights.
Please stop out this week and support our awesome local businesses!! It’s gonna be 60 and we all could use a little extra love
Here’s our MSAK post:
Saw this post online and just had to make it our own (yes that’s the front of our shop on Saturday) because this is 100% true and we are feeling it right now.
We had to close early on Friday due to snow but already had a bakery full of sourdough products since it takes us 3+ days to make them. Had to offer our 1st ever Buy 1 Get 1 1/2 off sale which worked out well for our customers but was a hit for us.
Then had to cancel pizza night (which we only do once a week since we make everything 100% from scratch).
Plus we had to cancel a wine tasting and cheesemaking class for our non-profit, the Eastern Shore Food Lab on Friday evening.
Then Saturday was a snowy mess but we are so grateful to everyone who made the trek out – you have no idea how much it means to our team who works tirelessly to hand-craft, one-of-a-kind, scratch-made items.
We are committed to keeping our amazing staff employed over the winter months with the same hours they get in the height of the spring, but snow days make it difficult.
We hope to see you this week at our family-owned and operated restaurant, while you visit all the other locally-owned establishments in Chestertown. We see a forecast of 60 towards the end of the week – with some rain – so please put on your rain boots, and take a walk around our beautiful town and frequent the shops and restaurants. We all could use a little extra love during these cold, slower winter months
P.S. We’re open at 8am all week and would love to see you for breakfast or coffee or both!
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We had to close early on Friday due to snow but already had a bakery full of sourdough products since it takes us 3+ days to make them. Had to offer our 1st ever Buy 1 Get 1 1/2 off sale which worked out well for our customers but was a hit for us.
We are committed to keeping our amazing staff employed over the winter months with the same hours they get in the height of the spring, but snow days make it difficult.
We hope to see you this week at our family-owned and operated restaurant, while you visit all the other locally-owned establishments in Chestertown. We see a forecast of 60 towards the end of the week – with some rain – so please put on your rain boots, and take a walk around our beautiful town and frequent the shops and restaurants. We all could use a little extra love during these cold, slower winter months
Christina’s Side of the Story
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