10/11/2026
A message from The Salty Crew: As a staff member from day one here I personally asked the ability to post this message! We will be closed today as everyone pulls together to determine what our future looks like. Although, closed you can still come see us for the donation drive from 12PM to 4PM! The weather appears to be creating the perfect gap for us to do so! We take that as a great sign! All you have to do is pull up and show us some love and support 2 of the greatest ladies you will ever encounter. Honestly, our future depends on it. We as a staff have been asked repeatedly not to respond personally to the crazy and negative comments on social media. That part has been difficult for us if I am being honest. We would go to war for our family here and our 2 incredible work "moms." To see people put them down who do not know the inside and the struggle is mind blowing to us. The truth is they don't run their business like other people. They let us see the true raw exhausting struggle side. We have seen them cry many times. They are human beings. Most of us have been here since day one which is crazy in the restaurant industry. IYKYK! But it is easy to stay when there has been a home away from home for you by bosses that treat you like gold and love and respect you. If you don't have childcare. That doesn't matter bring the child to work with you we are all family. Can't make it to payday and need anything. That doesn't matter they will take care of it without any thought. Phone turned off. Not on their watch. Sick at home. The first question is do you need a porch drop off not guilt over not being available to them. Never let it be a question that you are in a bind and your kid is in need. From winter clothes to birthday presents to making sure santa comes when times are rough for us. Have you ever personally been taken to patient first and had your boss hold your hand and take the bill because you had no insurance and needed care. Probably not, but I did. Then I was taken home while they went to the store to get nessecities and bring them back. Everyone who works for Kat and Jess know that their door is always open for anything. Mental health chats and no judgment from them on real life issues just love and solutions. They love us threw everything. We are a true family. One of us are having their first baby, one of us has a little boy that starts chemo this week, one of us has been put on dialysis 2 weeks ago. But we are here still standing behind the 2 greatest most selfless encouraging women. That is why it is so hard for us not to just rage about the crappy and unkind and very untrue comments. We have been front and center to see all the ends and outs. We have seen almost all the major needs of this old building have to be replaced. Comments like I see the way the parking lot looks they are full of crap they can't be in trouble means you don't know the inside story. Major maintenance repairs cost major money and cause shut down time that costs major money. Even through all of that our paychecks have never seen that we were closed or not at work due things out of their control. Math is math when all of that is added up on top of everyday running costs, it is actually pretty simple. We have seen it and they have always been truthful to us. To make bad comments about them when throughout what has been a hard year hurts our hearts and makes us angry. To make bad comments about them when no matter how stressed or tired they are they show up and help us in our outside lives and make sure we know we are loved and respected. To make bad comments about them when threw the whole struggle they are still showing up for good causes and giving to the community. To put them down when they have exhausted all their personal resources to keep us as a family that we are and make us still have jobs. It makes us angry but we have respected their wish not to respond to the mean people on the internet. It's crazy that they still encourage us to be kind no matter what. To make crazy comments about our one boss being on vacation last week when social media only shows you a glimpse of life. It would have to be to crazy to say that trip was planned almost 2 years ago when Salty wasn't even a thing. It would have to be too crazy to say that she made the choice many times to not go and Jess and our hole staff begged her to. It would be crazy to say that she went for her mental health and even cried real tears of guilt the day before she left. But we can only guess it is easy to make assumptions and rude comments when you only see an outside view. Yes our parking lot is full most of time. Thats because Kat and Jess run a incredible business built on love and compassion. To see comments like you shouldn't be in business or you should just throw in the towel in if you have to beg the internet for help. The crazy part is they could have quietly done that. They could have walked away from the stress and craziness quietly and moved on with life. We are sure they probably honestly considered it because we have been front and center every day to see the set backs. The crazy part is they didn't just quietly do that because of us. Because they genuinely love us, care about our full well being and our livelihood. I guess that is my entire speech. Hopefully you are still reading this. If you are able to help save our home away from we would be grateful. We understand that times are though for everyone so we understand if you cannot directly help but we would love for prayers and cheers. We know that our overall goal sounds crazy and unachiveable but ever since Friday morning we have stayed on the positive side of life in hopes of remaining a family with the 2 most amazing beautiful bosses that ever existed. If this post was to reach 6000 people who had $25 to donate to two of the best hardworking people you will ever meet. You would helping secure our future at The Salty Siren. We will be waving in our parking lot today. On our page there are other options to donate. Cash, check, venmo and gofundme. I know my coworkers are only waking up to this post, but I can tell you I speak from the heart of all of us. Kat and Jess are simply the best. We love you Kat and Jess! We love all of you too! We are all over praying for a miracle and hoping that we can stay salty. I end with this quote, if you have ever majorly screwed up at work accidentally and you apologize. I hope you get the response we get. "I don't accept any apologies for just being a human being. Human beings make mistakes." Stay salty!
