A regenerative farmer and restaurateur who closed several of her California eateries is now facing the possibility of shutting down her remaining two locations.
Mollie Engelhart, owner of Sage Regenerative Kitchen, said despite her continuous attempts to keep her restaurants afloat, they are “barely hanging on by a thread.”
“It doesn’t feel like we can hold on because I’ve run out of assets to literally liquidate, to keep us above ground and above water,” Engelhart told FOX Business. Engelhart said she and her husband “leveraged everything” including their retirement and home, in hopes that things would turn around.
“I’ve sold many other assets trying to keep this afloat believing that there would be a shift, there would be a moment that ‘okay, we can get back to a regular flow of guests, we can get back to a regular life, and it just hasn’t recovered in that way,” she added.
Her last two locations are …