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Hemi's Cafe Breakfast restaurant and video gaming parlor

HEMI’S CAFE IS HIRING!$20/HR STARTING PAY | DAY SHIFTS ONLYWEDNESDAY-SUNDAYOFF MONDAY & TUESDAYWe’re looking for someone...
10/16/2026

HEMI’S CAFE IS HIRING!

$20/HR STARTING PAY | DAY SHIFTS ONLY

WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY
OFF MONDAY & TUESDAY

We’re looking for someone who wants to become a key part of our kitchen team at Hemi’s Cafe.

This isn’t a position where we’re necessarily looking for the person with the longest résumé or the most years of restaurant experience. While professional cooking experience is certainly preferred, we’re much more interested in finding the right kind of person.

We’re looking for someone who takes initiative. Someone who sees what needs to be done and does it without always needing to be asked. Someone who works with a sense of urgency, takes pride in doing things correctly, and understands that every responsibility in a restaurant matters.

We need someone who’s willing to learn how to handle a busy breakfast and lunch rush, work efficiently alongside others, and take responsibility for keeping our kitchen clean, stocked, organized, and running smoothly.

No job in our restaurant is beneath anyone, including ownership. We believe in working together, helping one another, and taking pride in the little things just as much as the big ones.

For the right person, we’d love for this to become more than just another job. We’re looking for someone who can eventually grow into a leadership role, take on greater responsibility, and earn increased compensation along the way.

* Starting pay of $20 per hour
* Day shifts only, generally around 8AM–2 PM (occasionally 2:30 PM)
* No evening shifts
* Two consecutive days off
* Opportunity for advancement and increased pay
* A chance to become a genuinely important part of a growing local business

If this sounds like the kind of opportunity you’d take seriously, we’d love to hear from you.

Send us a message and tell us a little about yourself, your work experience, and why you think you’d be a good fit at Hemi’s.

10/07/2026

Bad news

We are closing for the rest of the day due to more plumbing issues. The issue should be fixed this evening, I will keep you updated.

I will be over at Broadway Coffee House cooking up pizzas and sandwiches for lunch today. We are also open 4pm-8pm over there for pizza tonight as well!

207 West Broadway
618-426-5297

Have you ever put salami on a burger? No? Just me? Well alright.This was something I did a lot when I was in college. I ...
10/06/2026

Have you ever put salami on a burger? No? Just me? Well alright.

This was something I did a lot when I was in college. I had just moved out of my parents’ house and I was learning to cook for myself. I would eat this 5 times a week. The best part about being young was being able to eat whatever I wanted with no consequences.

I would use those nasty frozen store bought burger patties, fry them up in the skillet, take some cheap salami and cook it in the leftover burger grease. Add some cheese, throw it on a couple pieces of stale Wonder Bread and it was the most disgustingly delicious thing in the world.

Now that I have my own restaurant, I can do it a little better. High quality beef, hand-pattied of course. Melted cheese, real Genoa salmami, all on a toasted potato bun! Served with our thin and crispy crinkle cut fries!

Stop in at Hemi’s this week and try one out before I revert back to my old ways and consume every last bit of salami in the building.

This week’s lunch special, a throwback.Cheese, Chicken, or Steak Quesadillas.This week only, so get them while you can!S...
09/28/2026

This week’s lunch special, a throwback.

Cheese, Chicken, or Steak Quesadillas.

This week only, so get them while you can!

Stop in and get yourself a dang quesadilla!

I apologize if you’re too young for that reference.

09/27/2026

Phones aren’t working again. Figures. We aren’t ignoring your calls, we promise! We’ll update when we get more info!

REMINDERWe close at 2pm today! We had a lot of people for breakfast today, stop in for lunch! Burgers, sandwiches, hand ...
09/23/2026

REMINDER

We close at 2pm today! We had a lot of people for breakfast today, stop in for lunch! Burgers, sandwiches, hand breaded chicken tenders, breakfast plates!

Come support your local small town diner!

We’ve got a couple friendly dogs hanging out here. Can anyone help get them back to their parents?
09/22/2026

We’ve got a couple friendly dogs hanging out here. Can anyone help get them back to their parents?

REMINDER 📢Starting this week, we are now open 7AM-2PM every day of the week.Forfeiting our few evening shifts was not ea...
09/21/2026

REMINDER 📢

Starting this week, we are now open 7AM-2PM every day of the week.

Forfeiting our few evening shifts was not easy, but we’re going hard with our day shifts. We will be offering new lunch specials weekly. A quick heads up, I bought Social Media Marketing For Dummies and it says I have to use more emojis. So bear with me. 🐻

We’re kicking it off this week with a Turkey & Bacon Pepper Jack sandwich! Hot and melty cheese on our new applewood smoked Turkey shaved in house! 🍎🪵🚬🦃🪒➡️🏠

It comes with our homemade potato chips. We literally take real potatoes 🥔 and turn them into chips. They don’t come from a bag. Pretty neat huh?

The sandwich is served on a toasted potato bun, but heck, you could get it on buttery grilled Texas toast, dry wheat berry , toasted Rye, or plain old white bread if that’s your thing. 🍞 We won’t judge. Out loud.

Stop in this week and try one for $9.99

Keep your eyes open, we’ve got a lot of new things coming your way!

Hi-YAH 👊

Starting next week, Hemi’s will officially be open 7AM–2PM, 7 days a week.That means this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday...
09/17/2026

Starting next week, Hemi’s will officially be open 7AM–2PM, 7 days a week.

That means this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be our last regular evening shifts for the time being.

This decision has not been an easy one, they never are. The reality is that running a small restaurant looks a lot different today than it did even a few years ago when we started. The cost of doing business in Illinois continues to rise, as we all know. A lot of places are closing, and I promise you, it’s for reasons beyond their control. I am experiencing these issues first hand every month. Not only have we been fortunate enough to clear these pitfalls as they come, but we’ve been incredibly blessed to have so much support from this community.

At the same time, staffing and maintaining a consistent evening shift has probably been our single biggest challenge over the last three years. We’ve spent a lot of time trying to make it work.

And that doesn’t necessarily mean evenings are gone forever. If we decide to bring regular dinner hours back, we’d like to do it the right way from scratch with a new, more manageable evening menu to build that side of Hemi’s back up from the ground.

Maybe that gets us back to having the doors open morning through evening, seven days a week.

While our hours are getting a little shorter, we’re not slowing down. If anything, we’ve got more things we want to work on than ever.

We want to finally launch online ordering. We want to keep expanding our specialty breakfast menu, add more light lunch menu options alongside our hearty dinner plates, run more one-off breakfast and lunch specials, build and launch that catering program I’ve been working on for two years, advertise more consistently, and make more time to get Hemi’s involved in our community.

Our goal is to become the kind of breakfast place worth making a trip for, while still being the same hometown diner our regulars know and love.

One thing we’re especially happy about with this change is that nobody is losing their job. Between Hemi’s and our second business, Broadway Coffee House, we’ve been able to move things around and keep everyone working.

We will be serving pizza a few nights a week very very soon at Broadway, so keep your eyes open for an update.

Again, thank you all for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you for breakfast and lunch.

We sold a lot of boneless wings last night. I was sure I was getting out, but unfortunately not. I was given a bowl of w...
09/10/2026

We sold a lot of boneless wings last night. I was sure I was getting out, but unfortunately not. I was given a bowl of water as a trade for writing this post. My manager has assured me I can get out tonight if we sell enough. So if you can buy some boneless wings, I would appreciate it.

$6.49 per order. Hand cut, hand breaded, and hand tossed. Served with ranch or blue cheese. Heck of a deal

Address

201 Minton Drive
Percy, IL
62272

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 2pm
Tuesday 7am - 2pm
Wednesday 7am - 8pm
Thursday 7am - 8pm
Friday 7am - 8pm
Saturday 7am - 2pm
Sunday 7am - 2pm

Telephone

+16184972350

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