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A fire at a local business can cause a lot of pain.
Regular customers and visitors lose a place to go, owners lose revenue and have to bear the cost of repairs and, during an extended closure, employees run the risk of losing their jobs.
One Galveston restaurant is trying to turn what could have been a tragedy into something positive.
The fire at Miller’s Seawall Grill, 1824 Seawall Blvd., occurred about 7 a.m. July 17. What started as a grease fire in the kitchen spread into the building’s air conditioning system and then caught the roof on fire, said Sherry Smith, the restaurant’s general manager.
The Galveston Fire Department arrived within 90 seconds. But the flames and the smoke, the soot and the water did its damage. The restaurant, which has been open since 1976, is closed for repairs and won’t reopen until next month, Smith said.
For the restaurant’s 42 employees, the days after the fire were filled with anxiety. But during the first staff meeting after the fire, owner Donal Clark announced good news: All the employees would keep their jobs until the restaurant reopened.
There was one catch: in order to earn their paychecks, the employees would have to volunteer at local nonprofits for at least 12 hours a week.
The reaction from the employees was “phenomenal,” Smith said.
“He’s always been that way,” Smith…
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