Manon Amyot worked in the restaurant industry for a lifetime. She can be spotted working her chip truck with her business partner, or serving up fries at the Clarence Creek Arena cantine. For those with a longer memory, her old restaurant, Country Frizzle, in Wendover was once popular for its breakfast and fried chicken.<\/p>\n
In 2019, when Amyot opened her newest endeavour, Mom\u2019s Kitchen in Clarence Creek, nothing could prepare her for the difficulties she would face just few months later.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe opened just a few months before COVID,\u201d said Amyot. \u201cI decided to close because I had three grandchildren going to school. I didn\u2019t want to go through all the rules and regulations either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amyot\u2019s grandchildren were integral to the restaurant\u2019s operation, with the eight-year-old working the till and the 11-year-old serving and clearing tables on the weekends, and without the extra help and to keep her family safe, Amyot hung up the apron until the storm passed.<\/p>\n
Throughout the lockdowns, loosening of restrictions and return to lockdowns, Amyot never lost faith that Mom\u2019s Kitchen would reopen. She started working night shifts at the RiverRock Inn to keep the mortgage payments going out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sure to keep making money,\u201d said Amyot. \u201cBecause I just wanted to keep things going and keep it a part of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
And her gamble paid off.<\/p>\n
Amyot opened the doors to Mom\u2019s Kitchen for the first time in two years in November, and the customers are flooding back in for her cozy and comfortable breakfasts.<\/p>\n
Construction teams working in the housing developments, families visiting the Residence Roger Seguin, people waiting for their cars at the autobody shop down the street and just family from around Clarence Creek make up her clientele, adding to the come-as-you-are, all-are-welcome atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are coming in from all over Clarence-Rockland,\u201d said Amyot.<\/p>\n
Still, the pandemic looms heavily. In order to future-proof Mom\u2019s Kitchen, Amyot is working on building her catering service, but she wants to keep her home-style kitchen open to everyone in the community, so she is not putting an end to serving up Mom\u2019s breakfast any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The pandemic forced Mom\u2019s Kitchen in Clarence Creek to close its doors. Now, after a long hiatus, the family diner is back to serving up its trademark home-style breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affaires"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"\n