![]() The bar now opens 7 days a week and 6 evenings a week and has even started offering a brand new brunch menu that is proving very popular. ![]() It was something he had always planned for the bar, but the lockdown meant that these plans had to be accelerated so that he could continue to keep the business afloat. Ramón realised very quickly into lockdown that the only way he was going to survive was to start offering a food takeaway service. We went from breaking even, to doubling that within a week! It was still a nerve racking time, just trying to make sure that we were adhering to the council guidelines and constantly offering the clients what they wanted.” It wasn’t as busy as we had liked, which was a concern as we had hired three new full time staff to operate the café, but as soon as people were allowed to sit in again we saw a huge increase in trade. We had a very quiet takeaway service running so that we could keep the business going. We opened through lockdown, although in hindsight we opened a week too late as people were starting to go back to work, but at home. ![]() ![]() We got a coffee machine and stayed up for days and nights learning how to make coffees, which is a lot harder than it looks! We completely remodelled the space, found a chef and decided it was time to try day time food. We decided to use the lockdown to strip back the place and make the changes we had planned, but hadn’t had the time to do before. We were told we couldn’t actually trade at all. “January, February and March were really busy, private hires were through the roof, but then Covid happened which took us a million steps back. Then came the unimaginable news that the bar would have to shut indefinitely due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Shortly after taking on the bar, business was good and the bar was busy every week, with some people splashing out on numerous bottles of £850 champagne. For a boutique bar in a niche market, offering high-end cocktails and champagne, this was enough to make a reasonable profit. Ramón only purchased Hummings bar back in January and back then it was solely open Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. My reason for interviewing him, is to understand just what this local business owner has had to do to ensure his bar survives the lockdown. Ramón has been working around 100 hours a week to make sure that his bar and café survives the global pandemic and he tells me he has not had a day off in 9 weeks. I can’t see Ramón’s normal welcoming smile, but I can see that his tired eyes are trying to convey his warm welcome above his mask. I don’t think any of us could have predicted or imagined being sat in a café surrounded by signs telling us to keep our distance and staff wearing surgical face masks. Sigma Theta Tau Chi Epsilon chapter Honor Society, membership is available for nursing students.Ceris Hymas, Head of Marketing at PMW, interviews Ramón, the owner of Hummings Bar in Esher, to find out how he saved his newly acquired business from an unexpected lockdown.You may become a member, run for office, organize service activities, or attend a national conference. The Endicott College Student Nurse Association is affiliated with the National Student Nurse Association.Shorter travel-based courses to Belize, Iceland,Scotland, and other countries are also available. A cross-cultural option, NU 315 Intercultural Nursing: Service Learning Experience, is available for nursing students. Students may spend the fall or spring of the junior year in many locations without interrupting progress toward their degrees.Work with other Endicott students and faculty on community-based service teams at local shelters, county jail projects, immigrant community centers, and other locations.Practice patient care in a state-of-the-art simulation lab.With current predictions of a crucial nursing shortage, employment options for nurses will continue to grow faster than all other occupations combined.Įndicott offers nursing programs at all academic levels including the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, RN to BSN program, Accelerated Bachelors of Science in Nursing (ABSN), Master of Science in Nursing with concentration areas including global health, family nurse practitioner, nursing administration, and nursing education, as well as the Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing and the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Endicott prepares registered nurses for positions in a wide range of clinical areas, and our affiliations include more than 70 Boston and local tertiary hospitals, community hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, and community-based care settings. A wide variety of full- and part-time work opportunities are available to registered nurses in settings ranging from in-patient, high-acuity facilities to clinics, schools, offices, health agencies, and federal and state regulatory departments.
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