Ryan cooked roughly 1,300 meals per day for 10 days with only a couple of burners to create a makeshift kitchen inside a firehouse. A representative from a local plant was on the other end of the line, asking Ryan to cook for a Hurricane Ida relief distribution. He prayed to God to guide his path, and His answer came loud and clear through a phone call the next day. Adding hurricane destruction to the mix would be enough to break anyone, but the Cashio family has a way of achieving the impossible.Īfter Hurricane Ida ravaged his restaurant, Ryan received lucrative job offers locally and out of state that would have taken him away from cooking. The past two years have also included two graduating seniors, their oldest daughter having a baby, their youngest son going into the military, and Heidi’s father undergoing heart surgery. Thankfully, his cancer went into remission not long before Hurricane Ida.
The Cashios discovered their oldest son had a malignant brain tumor one month prior to the start of the pandemic.
Life has been just as unpredictable on the family front. There were months that we lost money,” Ryan said. We made the decision to keep all of the staff and made payroll and bills by the skin of our teeth. People were working from home and stopped going out to eat lunch. We watched so many restaurants close during the pandemic. It’s been a long road to get to this point, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on mom-and-pop restaurants for the past 18 months. It’s a fresh start, a clean slate, and it’s a great opportunity for me to become part of the business,” Heidi said. “I’m doing the business side of it, and Ryan is going to be able to focus more on what he loves to do, which is cooking.
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