November 17, 2025 • 25 mins
I love conversations that make you want to show up for people. This is one of them.
Today’s guest is Danni Eickenhorst, the heartbeat behind Hustle Hospitality and some of St. Louis’ most beloved spots: Steve’s Hot Dogs, Steve’s Meltdown, The Fountain on Locust, and The Stardust Room.
Danni and I talk about what it really means to be “a neighborhood place”: paying people with dignity, creating spaces where everyone belongs, and showing up when a tornado rips through the block. You’ll hear how Feed the People began with one donated meal and grew into thousands, why catering and gift cards can literally keep doors open, and how abundance (not fear) guides her leadership.
I walked away reminded that hope is both feeling and practice—served hot, with community at the center.
In this episode you’ll learn
- Simple, concrete ways to help local restaurants & the Delmar Maker District
- Why transparency with your team builds real loyalty
- How to turn a business into a neighborhood’s rally point
- What it looks like to believe it gets better—and act like it
Take a next step
Book catering from a local restaurant, buy a gift card you’ll use later, or say yes to that neighborhood event invite. Little things add up.
Connect with Danni at Hustl Hospitality Group and on LinkedIn.
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New episodes drop every Monday, so you can begin your week with a little light and a lot of hope.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Even in my darkest moments, I remember we had a
year that just would not let up.
My we we both got laid off ofour jobs.
My my mom died.
We just had a lot going on.
I think a dog died somewhere inthere too, you know?
And my husband looked at me oneday and he said, it gets better.
SPEAKER_01 (00:23):
Hi there, friends.
I'm Danielle Elliott Smith, andthis is Hope Comes to Visit.
If this is the first time you'rejoining us, welcome.
And if you're coming back again,welcome home.
My guest today has turned goingout to eat into community
building.
Danny Eikenhorst is a CEO ofHustle Hospitality and the
co-owner behind some of St.
Louis's most beloved spots (00:41):
the Fountain on Locust, the Fountain
on Delmar, Steve's Hot Dogs, andSteve's Meltdown.
But her mission is bigger thanmenus.
It's jobs with dignity, spacesthat welcome everyone, and
neighborhoods that thrive.
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Danny Eichenhorst, thank you somuch for spending time with me
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today.
Oh, it's my pleasure.
I'm so happy to be here.
Oh, you know what?
I have been watching so much ofthe community effort and the
standing up and standing out andspeaking that you have been
doing for your communities forSt.
Louis.
Tell me what's what's drivingyou, what's pushing you to get
out there and fight for St.
(01:47):
Louis.
SPEAKER_00 (01:48):
You know, uh, I think sometimes, some days I
think of it as a I'm I'm a guesthere.
I didn't grow up here likeeverybody else did.
So this was a place where uh itwas where we come for vacation.
And this is my special place.
And so being able to raise myfamily here and to do my life
here, I look at it as an intenseprivilege.
And so um I look at the city alittle bit differently than I
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think a lot of people do.
And my whole life I've alwaysbeen sort of a what what can I
do to help?
How can I help kind of a person?
Um, and so no matter what I did,I was gonna be a little bit like
that.
But my background has alwaysbeen in um nonprofit, community
building on the government side.
And so um it's always been alittle bit of a part of my life.
But then you pair me withsomebody like Steve Ewing, who
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is my business partner, and he'sgot that same energy.
And when we came together, itwas like, let's build our entire
company around, you know, doinghospitality a little bit
differently and trying toleverage these businesses to
make the St.
Louis region a better place foreverybody.
SPEAKER_01 (02:47):
So, what was the first iteration of your business
together with hospitality?
What's the first thing you guysdid and what did you want to
make different?
SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
Yeah, so in 2020, we decided to partner.
He, I worked with him on and offon projects uh through my
marketing agency years ago.
And he was going to closeSteve's hot dogs all together.
He had a big year of music, thebusiness wasn't working out the
way he'd planned, and he justthought it's just best to kind
of close the doors.
And after a lot of talking, um,I offered to invest and fix the
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business.
He first said no.
I ultimately convinced him.
And um, we came together as agroup, my husband, he and I, as
three partners, we shut down thebusiness, we retooled it, and we
relaunched it on March 1st,2020.
Um, and so obviously not anideal time to launch a
restaurant at all.
We were open for I think 14 daysbefore we were shut down.
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And um, thank God we did becausehe was gonna have this huge year
of music that was going to behis only income.
And if we hadn't done that, hewould have had no income.
And um, and so we were obviouslyvery, very motivated to find a
way to make it work, and that'swhere um Hustle Hospitality
Group, that name came from, thatyear of just hustling and
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figuring things out.
Um, but really quickly we sawbecause our first location there
together was tucked into aneighborhood, we got to see the
struggle firsthand, a very muchworking-class neighborhood where
there was a lot of layoffs, um,a lot of struggle, a lot of
people going without food, um, alot of people dealing with
chronic illnesses that couldn'tget out and safely get a meal.
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And so we really quickly lookedto find solutions for that as a
business because we just feltlike we've got food.
Why not figure out a way to makean impact?
And so um we had a client or acustomer actually who had moved
to California and sent us in adonation and said, please give
somebody this on my behalf.
And when she did that, that sortof uh gave birth to what is now
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Feed the People a program wherewe give thousands of meals away
every year.
And um, that was our very firsteffort at doing something.
And now we've done so manythings, but we that's one that
continues to live on as we go.
We we pair now, instead ofgiving individual meals out, we
pair with nonprofits.
For um, during COVID, we got a$25,000 grant from Marcus
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Lamonis from the Prophet onCNBC, and he really helped
support us during that time sothat we could build those
nonprofit relationships and giveout meals at scale.
And um, and that just was ourfirst opportunity of being able
to make an impact in that inthat environment, and it felt
really good for us and for ourteam at a time where nothing
felt good, to be quite honest,you know?
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I love that.
I love the idea.
SPEAKER_01 (05:26):
So you and I are are kin in that I'm not from here
either originally.
And also, how can I help is isbuilt into my DNA.
So, how does Feed the Peoplework?
SPEAKER_00 (05:36):
How could the average person get involved?
Right now, the way we have doneit, because we felt a little bit
like social workers trying toadminister all these meals and
it was so hard for our team.
We have now partnered with umfood banks and nonprofits.
We've got St.
Patrick's Center and differentfood banks in our neighborhood.
And anytime they request a meal,as long as we have that much in
donations in our fund, then wegive it away.
(05:57):
Okay.
The thing we run into sinceCOVID is that there just aren't
as many donations, especiallyright now in the climate that
we're in, is you know, really asituation where nobody has a
little extra to spend.
And so we've underwritten aboutas much as we can this year.
And um, the the remainder hasbeen uh made possible by some
friends of ours at the St.
Louis Bourbon Society.
They do annual fundraisers forus every year just to make sure
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we have just enough to be ableto hit our minimum goals.
Um, so the nonprofits just reachout and uh we say yes whenever
we can.
SPEAKER_01 (06:25):
Do uh every little bit that you possibly can.
Yes.
What does St.
SPEAKER_00 (06:28):
Louis do well community-wise?
Oh gosh, I think there'ssomething really cool about um
the entrepreneurs and leaders inthis area.
I can say, you know, we've we'vegot a lot of challenges to
overcome for sure, but we alsohave some really good-hearted
people that are trying ingovernment.
We have some really good-heartedpeople that are trying in
business.
And I think, you know, I'm partof the Focus St.
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Louis leadership St.
Louis program, and I look aroundthe room and I'm just so
grateful to be in their company.
And so many of these people arepeople that, you know, these
large major institutions aregiving time and space and money
to go out in the community andmake an impact.
They're not just saying, youknow, stay in your lane, you're
in finance.
They're saying, I think you havesome leadership about you, go
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make a difference.
Um, and so St.
Louis has really built thisinfrastructure, and that's part
of it, that focus, St.
Louis, that that fosters theability for businesses to come
in and make a difference.
And I feel like after years ofbeing in nonprofits and years of
myself being in um government,it's really the business leaders
that have an opportunity and aremaking a big difference in this
community.
(07:32):
You look around at Maxine Clark,for example, like she was on the
show a couple weeks ago.
One of my heroes.
Um somebody I am grateful toknow.
I can't believe she knows myname some days, you know.
Um, but I I've but the firsttime I met her when I was 29
years old, I was just like, Iwant to be her when I grow up.
SPEAKER_01 (07:49):
I you know what?
I I thought the exact samething, you know, just sitting
and talking to her.
And when she's she very much isa how can I help kind of person,
right?
And her her idea, like one plusone equals 100, if she's
connecting the right people,magic happens.
And I I love that.
But it's similar to what I seein you.
So I think that whatever magicshe has sprinkled on you is is
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clearly working because I thinkthat you have that same
effervescence about you, thatsame idea that you want to help,
that same love of St.
Louis.
She's also not from here, right?
So there is something about thenotion that you have adopted St.
Louis and you love it here andyou want it to thrive.
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What could St.
SPEAKER_00 (08:35):
Louis be doing better?
I think that everybody has theirown causes that they are
championing.
We're we are a city with, Ithink, the most nonprofits per
capita, which is a beautifulthing.
We have a giving spirit, butit's also leads to a lot of
inefficiencies, a lot ofterritorial um thinking.
And I think that if we could uhbreak down some silos, we would
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do so much better.
I mean, you just look at ourgeography and all of our
municipalities that we have.
There's a lot of territorialismin this area.
Um, and so what I would love tosee, and what I'm always
bantering about ideas to try andfigure out is how do we, you
know, we all have a torch.
How do we lean them in and makea bonfire?
Um, how do we really, reallyfigure out who else is working
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on the same thing and and takeour name off of it and just get
it done?
SPEAKER_01 (09:23):
I love that.
It isn't that you want thecredit for it, you just want it
to get done.
It just needs to get done.
Yeah.
Talk to me about the St.
Louis community, like thecommunity that you live within.
Talk to me about those people,the people that you help and see
and serve on a regular basis.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
Well, um, so we have locations in um off South Grand.
We have one on Del Mar, and uhwe're in the Midtown Alley
neighborhood, and um, and thenalso out in Chesterfield.
And everywhere that we have alocation, we've committed to
making that area better becausewe were there.
And um, that's sometimes areally tall order, and sometimes
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one neighborhood needs us a heckof a lot more than another.
And this year, I would say thebulk of my focus has been on the
Delmar Maker district inparticular.
Um, and so that's an area that Ican say I know inside and out,
forward and backward.
And when we opened our doorsthere in particular, our our
opening day, I was really blownaway by the number of community
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leaders that showed up day oneto shake hands with us and break
bread with us, um, to introduceus and to tell us what they were
working on so that we could helpthem.
And um, you know, this is a anarea between Union and Kings
Highway and the Del Mar divide.
And there have been all thesegroups trying to overcome all
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the challenges in that area forso long, from like the church
level to Del Mar Main Street,uh, Del Mar Maker District
themselves, you know, all thesedifferent pockets, and they were
already there and just willingto partner with us from day one.
And so this year's been, youknow, the the first year there
was not easy for us because thisis an area that was underserved,
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and we chose to invest there,but we chose to invest there as
part of a larger vision touplift the area.
Um, that momentum there hadstagnated a little bit.
So that made the first year alittle bit hard, but but we were
um all working together androwing in the in the same
direction, and we were startingto see some momentum.
And then obviously we were wewere hit with the double whammy
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of a tornado that hit two of ourplaces there.
And that's the risk when you putthem right next to each other.
But um, you know, uh, and andthe entire time it's been um,
you know, partnership from frommoments after in that near area
and from like just neighbors andum and community groups, Academy
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Shermans doing their own stuff,but they also partnered with us
to make sure we were okay.
They were feeding people, butreached out and said, Can we pay
you to help us feed people?
Because we know you guys needrevenue right now.
Um, you know, Del Mar MainStreet helping us just on my way
here.
I just got an email aboutanother grant we qualify for.
Um you know, and and that's justspeaks to the to to the the
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quality of community in thatarea.
Um, another area that we wereworking in is the Midtown Alley
area, just a few blocks fromwhere we're recording this.
And um, and that's another areathat, you know, Joy, my
predecessor at the Fountain onLocusts, she was one of the
early people that saw promise inthat neighborhood.
The Fountain on Locust used tobe on a one-way street with
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boarded up buildings.
There was just nothing happeningthere when she bought the
building.
Um, and by collaborating withpeople like Eric Toki, Mary
Toki, Jason Johnson, um, theyslowly but surely were able to
really turn around and changethis neighborhood for the
better.
And it's a neighborhood that youlook around and it looks very
commercial.
There's a lot of creativesthere, but actually, there's a
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ton of people living there thatare really wanting to do
something special.
And they they have developedthis really incredible
collaborative creative districtthat's just unlike anything I've
ever seen before.
So I think we've really got ourhands in a lot of diverse
neighborhoods and groups here,and we're just trying to be as
active as possible and to seewhat needs there are and to see
where we can contribute.
What was the impact of thetornado for you guys?
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Um, it's been, it's been a lot.
So in we're we're lucky in thatwe have, you know, we had four
walls standing after it, whereasour neighbors did not.
Um we were missing windows andsystems and had a gas leak and
just we weren't able to operateand did sustain substantial
damage, but we were able to open31 days later.
And um, and so there's that.
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We reopened with uh Build Backthe Block concert, and um,
because we just, you know,there's some guilt in that.
You look across the street andthere's my friend Dallas, who
lost five business locations inone day.
And you're just like, why are weokay?
Right.
You know, that doesn't seemfair, especially given the
north-south situation in thisneighborhood, that that that's
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the way the the dice, you know,rolled.
And so we decided that we wouldutilize our reopening as an
opportunity to try and get backfor them.
Um, and so we were able to raise$50,000 in one night, which a
generous donor doubled for us.
You know, Danny, that's amazing.
Oh, it was it was unbelievable.
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And, you know, and that's that'sthe kind of that's the level of
impact we hope to make everyday.
And um, within 30 days, we wereable to give that out as 20
grants to different businessesthat were impacted.
And now I'm working on along-term strategy to raise
much, much more than that tobecause I think it's gonna take
years.
You know, we we've beenconsistently about 30 to 50
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percent under what it takes tokeep our doors open in terms of
our sales since the tornado.
And we were just about breakingeven before the tornado.
We were, you know, it takes awhile sometimes for these
neighborhoods to catch on.
And um, and so it's been reallyhard because every day we open,
we lose money.
And that's my family's money,and that's the that's my
paycheck.
And and it's hard to, you know,it's really hard to swallow.
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But but it's also that we'rereally, really bought in and we
want to be there on the otherside of this thing.
And I really believe thisneighborhood needs affordable
food and like family conceptsand a community gathering space.
And that's what we were tryingto provide.
And so we've just been holdingon and applying for grants and
doing everything we can andbeing really honest in a way
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that makes me uncomfortable, youknow, about where we are,
because we we really want to bethere on the other side of this
thing.
Um, and so the other day we we Igot together 25 artists um and
we painted murals on Del Mar onthe boarded up buildings, and
um, and it was awesome.
And in the conversations we'reyou know, throughout the day as
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we're painting, I'm realizingthese people still live in a
hotel.
These people are still livingwith grandma, um, and nothing's
been done to recover theirbuildings.
And we put down our brushes, andat the end of the day, instead
of feeling like hopeful and likeaccomplished, I just it it all
hit me that I'd been running ona fight or flight mode for like
four months, trying to just savethis neighborhood, and nobody
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has kept up with us, you know,and it just it floored me.
And honestly, it really took meout for about a week.
I just was exhausted.
I think I had like an adrenalinecrash.
SPEAKER_01 (16:08):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (16:09):
Um, and and so uh the reality, and I should know
this.
I this is not my first tornado.
I've been through this.
I was in Joplin for a year afterthat happened.
And oh my goodness.
Um uh I I should I should havethought it through, but you just
keep moving and you just keephoping.
Um but I think that we've gottwo to five years before our
neighbors are back and beforeour regulars are back.
SPEAKER_01 (16:30):
And what can what can a me do?
What can Mikey and Luke do?
What can our our our cameracrew, like the average person
who's listening, um, St.
Louis or not in St.
Louis?
Uh I mean, obviously someonewho's not in St.
Louis, maybe they say, like, oh,is there somewhere we can
donate?
Is there somewhere that we canhelp?
But someone like me, what couldI be doing?
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Is there a a way that aside frommaybe it's patronizing the
businesses on a regular basis?
SPEAKER_00 (16:58):
Is there more we could be doing?
If you want to help theneighborhood at large, there's
two places you can give.
There's Delmar Main Street, andthey are putting the money right
in the hands of the businesses.
Um, there's also Del Maristrictthemselves, and they're the ones
that are creating space andbeautifying the neighborhood and
trying to really, really makethat a neighborhood in a way
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that it hasn't beenhistorically.
And both of those things areimportant.
I think the placemaking piece ofit is important because people
are pulling onto that street andlooking around and seeing what
is there right now and turningright around.
And I've seen it happen.
Because it still looks like it'stornado ravage.
That's right.
And so they, even though we'reopen, they're not seeing it,
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they're not coming, they're notsupporting.
I think, yes, some of it isgoing out of your way to
specifically go to thoselocations and follow along and
show up.
Um, the other thing is, youknow, sign up for a class at
Craft Alliance.
Um, go to a third-degree uhglass factory Third Fridays, buy
it, buy a piece of glass if youcan at their gallery.
Um on Thursday, Friday.
SPEAKER_01 (18:01):
There's an event coming up there, I think.
SPEAKER_00 (18:02):
There is this Hope Create.
Yes, yes, yes.
Okay.
Yes.
And so anytime you get a chance,go tip generously, buy buy lots
of cocktails and um take homesome art.
But you know, for therestaurants, buy gift cards,
even if you don't intend to usethem.
Um uh you can buy them on mostrestaurant websites.
I think if you are in a positionto order catering for your
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office, that's huge.
Catering is the thing thatsustains a restaurant.
All restaurants, honestly, brickand mortars, the margins are so
slim.
But catering, that's what keepsthe doors open.
SPEAKER_01 (18:33):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (18:33):
So catering from any of the restaurants.
Yes.
Tell me which restaurants we'retalking about.
We've got uh Steve's Hot Dogs,The Fountain on Del Mar, Too
Much Sauce, Um, the Brad, uh,sorry, Ben Ben Paremba has uh uh
Nixta, he's got Florentine andEska that are all open right
now.
So those are all right therewithin the district, all except
for one just open in the lastyear or so.
SPEAKER_01 (18:56):
Okay, that's amazing.
I mean, it's a it's a place tostart.
So I mean, knowing that cateringfrom any of those locations, is
that something people have tohave to go pick up or can it be
delivered?
SPEAKER_00 (19:05):
It can yeah, I think it just depends on the size of
your order in the restaurant.
But usually, you know, mostrestaurants are if it's$150 or
more, they'll bring it to you.
SPEAKER_01 (19:13):
Okay.
So yeah, so I I happen to know alot of people who order food for
delivery for different hospitalsystems and whatnot.
So I figure it's good to be ableto mention and and share.
And oh, I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_00 (19:22):
Yeah, no problem.
You know, for for smallbusinesses too, the
opportunities like we do apartnership with um the
Shakespeare Festival every year,and we come out and we we serve
food for them for a month.
Um, any any opportunities likethat for any of those people
would be game changers, right?
Those are the things that keepthe doors open when times are
tough.
SPEAKER_01 (19:40):
I love that you're doing this.
You have such an incredibleheart.
And even listening to you, Imean, when you said that it's
you've been astonishinglyhonest, right?
I think that that's one of thereasons I do this.
I think that there is so muchgood that happens when people
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are deeply vulnerable with whatthey're going through, because
there are other people that aregoing through difficult things
as well.
And whether it's the exact samething or something similar, I
think that's where we find hope.
Okay.
We do find hope in inrecognizing that someone else is
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still going, even though it'shard.
Yeah.
Like you just said you're notmaking enough to keep your doors
open, but you're keeping yourdoors open because damn it, you
want to.
You want the community to seethat you're there.
The community, you believe inthe community, you believe they
deserve to have good affordablefood.
So you're doing it and trying tofind a way.
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Yes.
And I think that's that gives mechills.
I think that's remarkable.
How do you define hope?
SPEAKER_00 (20:53):
Oh gosh, I think that that um I think sometimes
hope is believing almost for me,in a, in a, in a pig-headed and
stubborn way that things aregonna be all right.
Because I do believe they'realways gonna be all right.
I err on the side and default onthe side of of positivity all
the time.
But um, even in my darkestmoments, I remember we had a
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year that just would not let up.
My we we both got laid off ofour jobs.
My my mom died.
We just had a lot going on.
I think a dog died somewhere inthere too, you know?
And my husband looked at me oneday and he said, it gets better.
And I just was like, forget you.
I don't need to hear that rightnow.
I just didn't want to hear it inthat moment.
And he was right.
And and I remember, I alwaysthink back to that because it
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really felt like it would neverget better.
Um, there was just not one morething I could handle.
We had a six-week-old baby inthe middle of all that when we
lost our jobs too.
And um, and it was just, itreally felt like it was too
much.
And for me, it's just alwaysremembering it gets better.
It may not be the better you'rethinking of, but I really truly
trust in the universe andbelieve that it will always get
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better.
SPEAKER_01 (22:00):
I believe the same way.
I also like something thatyou've done it a few times now,
and I pay attention to words.
You've put an emphasis on and afew times.
And that's something I try todo, use and instead of but.
And and I like that you do thatbecause you are allowing for two
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things to exist at one time.
Yes.
And I I really appreciate that.
You are allowing for there to bedifficult circumstances in front
of you while recognizing thatthings will turn eventually.
We're hanging on and knowingthat things will change, which I
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happen to believe is a veryimportant thing for us to be
doing right now, every day.
SPEAKER_00 (22:48):
And I think I try to operate from a place of
abundance at all times.
Um, I think a lot of uh theworld wants you to operate from
a place of scarcity, to alwaysbe afraid.
And at some point I saw throughthat veil and I can never go
back.
You know, I let go of a lot offear, and there's a lot of
reasons to be afraid, just likeyou said, my goodness.
Um, and the mom in me always hasa little bit of that that hangs
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on.
Um, and uh because I I'm sodeeply aware, and now now I now
I'm almost feel like I'm the momto 150 employees, and they a lot
of them do call me mom.
Um, and so it's really easy toget swallowed up in that.
Um, but we we have to alwaysremember that great things are
possible, and oftentimes it hasvery little to do with with
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anything we want.
You know, sometimes I do believethat the universe is gonna
deliver because something needsto happen.
SPEAKER_01 (23:37):
I love that.
I'm so grateful to you for beinghere.
Is there anything that I didn'task you that you want to share?
I know you mentioned you've gota few projects coming up.
SPEAKER_00 (23:45):
Oh, you know, no, I would just I I think, you know,
right now our our big focusinternally is just shifting.
We're we are turning therestaurant model on its head.
We're trying to figure out howdo we build a restaurant group
that really feeds people,meaning our people internally,
gives them a really good qualityof life.
So, so right now um we're doingthat, we're you may not see us
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doing the same growth path thatwe had before the tornado.
We've decided to go somewheretotally different and and
totally um build our company ina very, very different way
because our people are the thingthat matter.
And at the end of the day, evenwhen times are tough, we've
promised them a good quality oflife and and um and that they
get to come along for this ridewith us and co-create with us
all the great things that we'redoing.
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So, so you know, just um supportthese restaurants, but support
this neighborhood in particular.
Um, you know, we've we've gotlots of locations and they all
need love and support.
Please come out and be a part ofour community.
You know, we're trying to creategathering spaces that mean
something in St.
Louis.
And if we can, if you want to bea part of it, we want you to be
there.
Sounds like family.
Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01 (24:50):
Danny Eichenhorst, thank you for being here with me
today.
Oh, my pleasure.
I so appreciate you.
And thank you, friends, forspending time with us on Hope
Comes to Visit.
It is always a joy and apleasure to be here with you to
share real conversations andreal stories and real ways that
you can make a difference andyou can help.
And hopefully you have found alittle bit of inspiration and a
little bit of hustle comingright from Danny herself.
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Even in my darkest moments, I remember we had a
year that just would not let up.
My we we both got laid off ofour jobs.
My my mom died.
We just had a lot going on.
I think a dog died somewhere inthere too, you know?
And my husband looked at me oneday and he said, it gets better.
SPEAKER_01 (00:23):
Hi there, friends.
I'm Danielle Elliott Smith, andthis is Hope Comes to Visit.
If this is the first time you'rejoining us, welcome.
And if you're coming back again,welcome home.
My guest today has turned goingout to eat into community
building.
Danny Eikenhorst is a CEO ofHustle Hospitality and the
co-owner behind some of St.
Louis's most beloved spots (00:41):
the Fountain on Locust, the Fountain
on Delmar, Steve's Hot Dogs, andSteve's Meltdown.
But her mission is bigger thanmenus.
It's jobs with dignity, spacesthat welcome everyone, and
neighborhoods that thrive.
Let's take a quick moment tothank the people that support
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Danny Eichenhorst, thank you somuch for spending time with me
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today.
Oh, it's my pleasure.
I'm so happy to be here.
Oh, you know what?
I have been watching so much ofthe community effort and the
standing up and standing out andspeaking that you have been
doing for your communities forSt.
Louis.
Tell me what's what's drivingyou, what's pushing you to get
out there and fight for St.
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Louis.
SPEAKER_00 (01:48):
You know, uh, I think sometimes, some days I
think of it as a I'm I'm a guesthere.
I didn't grow up here likeeverybody else did.
So this was a place where uh itwas where we come for vacation.
And this is my special place.
And so being able to raise myfamily here and to do my life
here, I look at it as an intenseprivilege.
And so um I look at the city alittle bit differently than I
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think a lot of people do.
And my whole life I've alwaysbeen sort of a what what can I
do to help?
How can I help kind of a person?
Um, and so no matter what I did,I was gonna be a little bit like
that.
But my background has alwaysbeen in um nonprofit, community
building on the government side.
And so um it's always been alittle bit of a part of my life.
But then you pair me withsomebody like Steve Ewing, who
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is my business partner, and he'sgot that same energy.
And when we came together, itwas like, let's build our entire
company around, you know, doinghospitality a little bit
differently and trying toleverage these businesses to
make the St.
Louis region a better place foreverybody.
SPEAKER_01 (02:47):
So, what was the first iteration of your business
together with hospitality?
What's the first thing you guysdid and what did you want to
make different?
SPEAKER_00 (02:54):
Yeah, so in 2020, we decided to partner.
He, I worked with him on and offon projects uh through my
marketing agency years ago.
And he was going to closeSteve's hot dogs all together.
He had a big year of music, thebusiness wasn't working out the
way he'd planned, and he justthought it's just best to kind
of close the doors.
And after a lot of talking, um,I offered to invest and fix the
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business.
He first said no.
I ultimately convinced him.
And um, we came together as agroup, my husband, he and I, as
three partners, we shut down thebusiness, we retooled it, and we
relaunched it on March 1st,2020.
Um, and so obviously not anideal time to launch a
restaurant at all.
We were open for I think 14 daysbefore we were shut down.
(03:37):
And um, thank God we did becausehe was gonna have this huge year
of music that was going to behis only income.
And if we hadn't done that, hewould have had no income.
And um, and so we were obviouslyvery, very motivated to find a
way to make it work, and that'swhere um Hustle Hospitality
Group, that name came from, thatyear of just hustling and
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figuring things out.
Um, but really quickly we sawbecause our first location there
together was tucked into aneighborhood, we got to see the
struggle firsthand, a very muchworking-class neighborhood where
there was a lot of layoffs, um,a lot of struggle, a lot of
people going without food, um, alot of people dealing with
chronic illnesses that couldn'tget out and safely get a meal.
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And so we really quickly lookedto find solutions for that as a
business because we just feltlike we've got food.
Why not figure out a way to makean impact?
And so um we had a client or acustomer actually who had moved
to California and sent us in adonation and said, please give
somebody this on my behalf.
And when she did that, that sortof uh gave birth to what is now
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Feed the People a program wherewe give thousands of meals away
every year.
And um, that was our very firsteffort at doing something.
And now we've done so manythings, but we that's one that
continues to live on as we go.
We we pair now, instead ofgiving individual meals out, we
pair with nonprofits.
For um, during COVID, we got a$25,000 grant from Marcus
(05:03):
Lamonis from the Prophet onCNBC, and he really helped
support us during that time sothat we could build those
nonprofit relationships and giveout meals at scale.
And um, and that just was ourfirst opportunity of being able
to make an impact in that inthat environment, and it felt
really good for us and for ourteam at a time where nothing
felt good, to be quite honest,you know?
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I love that.
I love the idea.
SPEAKER_01 (05:26):
So you and I are are kin in that I'm not from here
either originally.
And also, how can I help is isbuilt into my DNA.
So, how does Feed the Peoplework?
SPEAKER_00 (05:36):
How could the average person get involved?
Right now, the way we have doneit, because we felt a little bit
like social workers trying toadminister all these meals and
it was so hard for our team.
We have now partnered with umfood banks and nonprofits.
We've got St.
Patrick's Center and differentfood banks in our neighborhood.
And anytime they request a meal,as long as we have that much in
donations in our fund, then wegive it away.
(05:57):
Okay.
The thing we run into sinceCOVID is that there just aren't
as many donations, especiallyright now in the climate that
we're in, is you know, really asituation where nobody has a
little extra to spend.
And so we've underwritten aboutas much as we can this year.
And um, the the remainder hasbeen uh made possible by some
friends of ours at the St.
Louis Bourbon Society.
They do annual fundraisers forus every year just to make sure
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we have just enough to be ableto hit our minimum goals.
Um, so the nonprofits just reachout and uh we say yes whenever
we can.
SPEAKER_01 (06:25):
Do uh every little bit that you possibly can.
Yes.
What does St.
SPEAKER_00 (06:28):
Louis do well community-wise?
Oh gosh, I think there'ssomething really cool about um
the entrepreneurs and leaders inthis area.
I can say, you know, we've we'vegot a lot of challenges to
overcome for sure, but we alsohave some really good-hearted
people that are trying ingovernment.
We have some really good-heartedpeople that are trying in
business.
And I think, you know, I'm partof the Focus St.
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Louis leadership St.
Louis program, and I look aroundthe room and I'm just so
grateful to be in their company.
And so many of these people arepeople that, you know, these
large major institutions aregiving time and space and money
to go out in the community andmake an impact.
They're not just saying, youknow, stay in your lane, you're
in finance.
They're saying, I think you havesome leadership about you, go
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make a difference.
Um, and so St.
Louis has really built thisinfrastructure, and that's part
of it, that focus, St.
Louis, that that fosters theability for businesses to come
in and make a difference.
And I feel like after years ofbeing in nonprofits and years of
myself being in um government,it's really the business leaders
that have an opportunity and aremaking a big difference in this
community.
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You look around at Maxine Clark,for example, like she was on the
show a couple weeks ago.
One of my heroes.
Um somebody I am grateful toknow.
I can't believe she knows myname some days, you know.
Um, but I I've but the firsttime I met her when I was 29
years old, I was just like, Iwant to be her when I grow up.
SPEAKER_01 (07:49):
I you know what?
I I thought the exact samething, you know, just sitting
and talking to her.
And when she's she very much isa how can I help kind of person,
right?
And her her idea, like one plusone equals 100, if she's
connecting the right people,magic happens.
And I I love that.
But it's similar to what I seein you.
So I think that whatever magicshe has sprinkled on you is is
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clearly working because I thinkthat you have that same
effervescence about you, thatsame idea that you want to help,
that same love of St.
Louis.
She's also not from here, right?
So there is something about thenotion that you have adopted St.
Louis and you love it here andyou want it to thrive.
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What could St.
SPEAKER_00 (08:35):
Louis be doing better?
I think that everybody has theirown causes that they are
championing.
We're we are a city with, Ithink, the most nonprofits per
capita, which is a beautifulthing.
We have a giving spirit, butit's also leads to a lot of
inefficiencies, a lot ofterritorial um thinking.
And I think that if we could uhbreak down some silos, we would
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do so much better.
I mean, you just look at ourgeography and all of our
municipalities that we have.
There's a lot of territorialismin this area.
Um, and so what I would love tosee, and what I'm always
bantering about ideas to try andfigure out is how do we, you
know, we all have a torch.
How do we lean them in and makea bonfire?
Um, how do we really, reallyfigure out who else is working
(09:18):
on the same thing and and takeour name off of it and just get
it done?
SPEAKER_01 (09:23):
I love that.
It isn't that you want thecredit for it, you just want it
to get done.
It just needs to get done.
Yeah.
Talk to me about the St.
Louis community, like thecommunity that you live within.
Talk to me about those people,the people that you help and see
and serve on a regular basis.
SPEAKER_00 (09:39):
Well, um, so we have locations in um off South Grand.
We have one on Del Mar, and uhwe're in the Midtown Alley
neighborhood, and um, and thenalso out in Chesterfield.
And everywhere that we have alocation, we've committed to
making that area better becausewe were there.
And um, that's sometimes areally tall order, and sometimes
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one neighborhood needs us a heckof a lot more than another.
And this year, I would say thebulk of my focus has been on the
Delmar Maker district inparticular.
Um, and so that's an area that Ican say I know inside and out,
forward and backward.
And when we opened our doorsthere in particular, our our
opening day, I was really blownaway by the number of community
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leaders that showed up day oneto shake hands with us and break
bread with us, um, to introduceus and to tell us what they were
working on so that we could helpthem.
And um, you know, this is a anarea between Union and Kings
Highway and the Del Mar divide.
And there have been all thesegroups trying to overcome all
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the challenges in that area forso long, from like the church
level to Del Mar Main Street,uh, Del Mar Maker District
themselves, you know, all thesedifferent pockets, and they were
already there and just willingto partner with us from day one.
And so this year's been, youknow, the the first year there
was not easy for us because thisis an area that was underserved,
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and we chose to invest there,but we chose to invest there as
part of a larger vision touplift the area.
Um, that momentum there hadstagnated a little bit.
So that made the first year alittle bit hard, but but we were
um all working together androwing in the in the same
direction, and we were startingto see some momentum.
And then obviously we were wewere hit with the double whammy
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of a tornado that hit two of ourplaces there.
And that's the risk when you putthem right next to each other.
But um, you know, uh, and andthe entire time it's been um,
you know, partnership from frommoments after in that near area
and from like just neighbors andum and community groups, Academy
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Shermans doing their own stuff,but they also partnered with us
to make sure we were okay.
They were feeding people, butreached out and said, Can we pay
you to help us feed people?
Because we know you guys needrevenue right now.
Um, you know, Del Mar MainStreet helping us just on my way
here.
I just got an email aboutanother grant we qualify for.
Um you know, and and that's justspeaks to the to to the the
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quality of community in thatarea.
Um, another area that we wereworking in is the Midtown Alley
area, just a few blocks fromwhere we're recording this.
And um, and that's another areathat, you know, Joy, my
predecessor at the Fountain onLocusts, she was one of the
early people that saw promise inthat neighborhood.
The Fountain on Locust used tobe on a one-way street with
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boarded up buildings.
There was just nothing happeningthere when she bought the
building.
Um, and by collaborating withpeople like Eric Toki, Mary
Toki, Jason Johnson, um, theyslowly but surely were able to
really turn around and changethis neighborhood for the
better.
And it's a neighborhood that youlook around and it looks very
commercial.
There's a lot of creativesthere, but actually, there's a
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ton of people living there thatare really wanting to do
something special.
And they they have developedthis really incredible
collaborative creative districtthat's just unlike anything I've
ever seen before.
So I think we've really got ourhands in a lot of diverse
neighborhoods and groups here,and we're just trying to be as
active as possible and to seewhat needs there are and to see
where we can contribute.
What was the impact of thetornado for you guys?
(13:08):
Um, it's been, it's been a lot.
So in we're we're lucky in thatwe have, you know, we had four
walls standing after it, whereasour neighbors did not.
Um we were missing windows andsystems and had a gas leak and
just we weren't able to operateand did sustain substantial
damage, but we were able to open31 days later.
And um, and so there's that.
(13:29):
We reopened with uh Build Backthe Block concert, and um,
because we just, you know,there's some guilt in that.
You look across the street andthere's my friend Dallas, who
lost five business locations inone day.
And you're just like, why are weokay?
Right.
You know, that doesn't seemfair, especially given the
north-south situation in thisneighborhood, that that that's
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the way the the dice, you know,rolled.
And so we decided that we wouldutilize our reopening as an
opportunity to try and get backfor them.
Um, and so we were able to raise$50,000 in one night, which a
generous donor doubled for us.
You know, Danny, that's amazing.
Oh, it was it was unbelievable.
(14:10):
And, you know, and that's that'sthe kind of that's the level of
impact we hope to make everyday.
And um, within 30 days, we wereable to give that out as 20
grants to different businessesthat were impacted.
And now I'm working on along-term strategy to raise
much, much more than that tobecause I think it's gonna take
years.
You know, we we've beenconsistently about 30 to 50
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percent under what it takes tokeep our doors open in terms of
our sales since the tornado.
And we were just about breakingeven before the tornado.
We were, you know, it takes awhile sometimes for these
neighborhoods to catch on.
And um, and so it's been reallyhard because every day we open,
we lose money.
And that's my family's money,and that's the that's my
paycheck.
And and it's hard to, you know,it's really hard to swallow.
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But but it's also that we'rereally, really bought in and we
want to be there on the otherside of this thing.
And I really believe thisneighborhood needs affordable
food and like family conceptsand a community gathering space.
And that's what we were tryingto provide.
And so we've just been holdingon and applying for grants and
doing everything we can andbeing really honest in a way
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that makes me uncomfortable, youknow, about where we are,
because we we really want to bethere on the other side of this
thing.
Um, and so the other day we we Igot together 25 artists um and
we painted murals on Del Mar onthe boarded up buildings, and
um, and it was awesome.
And in the conversations we'reyou know, throughout the day as
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we're painting, I'm realizingthese people still live in a
hotel.
These people are still livingwith grandma, um, and nothing's
been done to recover theirbuildings.
And we put down our brushes, andat the end of the day, instead
of feeling like hopeful and likeaccomplished, I just it it all
hit me that I'd been running ona fight or flight mode for like
four months, trying to just savethis neighborhood, and nobody
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has kept up with us, you know,and it just it floored me.
And honestly, it really took meout for about a week.
I just was exhausted.
I think I had like an adrenalinecrash.
SPEAKER_01 (16:08):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (16:09):
Um, and and so uh the reality, and I should know
this.
I this is not my first tornado.
I've been through this.
I was in Joplin for a year afterthat happened.
And oh my goodness.
Um uh I I should I should havethought it through, but you just
keep moving and you just keephoping.
Um but I think that we've gottwo to five years before our
neighbors are back and beforeour regulars are back.
SPEAKER_01 (16:30):
And what can what can a me do?
What can Mikey and Luke do?
What can our our our cameracrew, like the average person
who's listening, um, St.
Louis or not in St.
Louis?
Uh I mean, obviously someonewho's not in St.
Louis, maybe they say, like, oh,is there somewhere we can
donate?
Is there somewhere that we canhelp?
But someone like me, what couldI be doing?
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Is there a a way that aside frommaybe it's patronizing the
businesses on a regular basis?
SPEAKER_00 (16:58):
Is there more we could be doing?
If you want to help theneighborhood at large, there's
two places you can give.
There's Delmar Main Street, andthey are putting the money right
in the hands of the businesses.
Um, there's also Del Maristrictthemselves, and they're the ones
that are creating space andbeautifying the neighborhood and
trying to really, really makethat a neighborhood in a way
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that it hasn't beenhistorically.
And both of those things areimportant.
I think the placemaking piece ofit is important because people
are pulling onto that street andlooking around and seeing what
is there right now and turningright around.
And I've seen it happen.
Because it still looks like it'stornado ravage.
That's right.
And so they, even though we'reopen, they're not seeing it,
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they're not coming, they're notsupporting.
I think, yes, some of it isgoing out of your way to
specifically go to thoselocations and follow along and
show up.
Um, the other thing is, youknow, sign up for a class at
Craft Alliance.
Um, go to a third-degree uhglass factory Third Fridays, buy
it, buy a piece of glass if youcan at their gallery.
Um on Thursday, Friday.
SPEAKER_01 (18:01):
There's an event coming up there, I think.
SPEAKER_00 (18:02):
There is this Hope Create.
Yes, yes, yes.
Okay.
Yes.
And so anytime you get a chance,go tip generously, buy buy lots
of cocktails and um take homesome art.
But you know, for therestaurants, buy gift cards,
even if you don't intend to usethem.
Um uh you can buy them on mostrestaurant websites.
I think if you are in a positionto order catering for your
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office, that's huge.
Catering is the thing thatsustains a restaurant.
All restaurants, honestly, brickand mortars, the margins are so
slim.
But catering, that's what keepsthe doors open.
SPEAKER_01 (18:33):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (18:33):
So catering from any of the restaurants.
Yes.
Tell me which restaurants we'retalking about.
We've got uh Steve's Hot Dogs,The Fountain on Del Mar, Too
Much Sauce, Um, the Brad, uh,sorry, Ben Ben Paremba has uh uh
Nixta, he's got Florentine andEska that are all open right
now.
So those are all right therewithin the district, all except
for one just open in the lastyear or so.
SPEAKER_01 (18:56):
Okay, that's amazing.
I mean, it's a it's a place tostart.
So I mean, knowing that cateringfrom any of those locations, is
that something people have tohave to go pick up or can it be
delivered?
SPEAKER_00 (19:05):
It can yeah, I think it just depends on the size of
your order in the restaurant.
But usually, you know, mostrestaurants are if it's$150 or
more, they'll bring it to you.
SPEAKER_01 (19:13):
Okay.
So yeah, so I I happen to know alot of people who order food for
delivery for different hospitalsystems and whatnot.
So I figure it's good to be ableto mention and and share.
And oh, I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_00 (19:22):
Yeah, no problem.
You know, for for smallbusinesses too, the
opportunities like we do apartnership with um the
Shakespeare Festival every year,and we come out and we we serve
food for them for a month.
Um, any any opportunities likethat for any of those people
would be game changers, right?
Those are the things that keepthe doors open when times are
tough.
SPEAKER_01 (19:40):
I love that you're doing this.
You have such an incredibleheart.
And even listening to you, Imean, when you said that it's
you've been astonishinglyhonest, right?
I think that that's one of thereasons I do this.
I think that there is so muchgood that happens when people
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are deeply vulnerable with whatthey're going through, because
there are other people that aregoing through difficult things
as well.
And whether it's the exact samething or something similar, I
think that's where we find hope.
Okay.
We do find hope in inrecognizing that someone else is
(20:24):
still going, even though it'shard.
Yeah.
Like you just said you're notmaking enough to keep your doors
open, but you're keeping yourdoors open because damn it, you
want to.
You want the community to seethat you're there.
The community, you believe inthe community, you believe they
deserve to have good affordablefood.
So you're doing it and trying tofind a way.
(20:46):
Yes.
And I think that's that gives mechills.
I think that's remarkable.
How do you define hope?
SPEAKER_00 (20:53):
Oh gosh, I think that that um I think sometimes
hope is believing almost for me,in a, in a, in a pig-headed and
stubborn way that things aregonna be all right.
Because I do believe they'realways gonna be all right.
I err on the side and default onthe side of of positivity all
the time.
But um, even in my darkestmoments, I remember we had a
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year that just would not let up.
My we we both got laid off ofour jobs.
My my mom died.
We just had a lot going on.
I think a dog died somewhere inthere too, you know?
And my husband looked at me oneday and he said, it gets better.
And I just was like, forget you.
I don't need to hear that rightnow.
I just didn't want to hear it inthat moment.
And he was right.
And and I remember, I alwaysthink back to that because it
(21:36):
really felt like it would neverget better.
Um, there was just not one morething I could handle.
We had a six-week-old baby inthe middle of all that when we
lost our jobs too.
And um, and it was just, itreally felt like it was too
much.
And for me, it's just alwaysremembering it gets better.
It may not be the better you'rethinking of, but I really truly
trust in the universe andbelieve that it will always get
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better.
SPEAKER_01 (22:00):
I believe the same way.
I also like something thatyou've done it a few times now,
and I pay attention to words.
You've put an emphasis on and afew times.
And that's something I try todo, use and instead of but.
And and I like that you do thatbecause you are allowing for two
(22:22):
things to exist at one time.
Yes.
And I I really appreciate that.
You are allowing for there to bedifficult circumstances in front
of you while recognizing thatthings will turn eventually.
We're hanging on and knowingthat things will change, which I
(22:44):
happen to believe is a veryimportant thing for us to be
doing right now, every day.
SPEAKER_00 (22:48):
And I think I try to operate from a place of
abundance at all times.
Um, I think a lot of uh theworld wants you to operate from
a place of scarcity, to alwaysbe afraid.
And at some point I saw throughthat veil and I can never go
back.
You know, I let go of a lot offear, and there's a lot of
reasons to be afraid, just likeyou said, my goodness.
Um, and the mom in me always hasa little bit of that that hangs
(23:10):
on.
Um, and uh because I I'm sodeeply aware, and now now I now
I'm almost feel like I'm the momto 150 employees, and they a lot
of them do call me mom.
Um, and so it's really easy toget swallowed up in that.
Um, but we we have to alwaysremember that great things are
possible, and oftentimes it hasvery little to do with with
(23:31):
anything we want.
You know, sometimes I do believethat the universe is gonna
deliver because something needsto happen.
SPEAKER_01 (23:37):
I love that.
I'm so grateful to you for beinghere.
Is there anything that I didn'task you that you want to share?
I know you mentioned you've gota few projects coming up.
SPEAKER_00 (23:45):
Oh, you know, no, I would just I I think, you know,
right now our our big focusinternally is just shifting.
We're we are turning therestaurant model on its head.
We're trying to figure out howdo we build a restaurant group
that really feeds people,meaning our people internally,
gives them a really good qualityof life.
So, so right now um we're doingthat, we're you may not see us
(24:08):
doing the same growth path thatwe had before the tornado.
We've decided to go somewheretotally different and and
totally um build our company ina very, very different way
because our people are the thingthat matter.
And at the end of the day, evenwhen times are tough, we've
promised them a good quality oflife and and um and that they
get to come along for this ridewith us and co-create with us
all the great things that we'redoing.
(24:29):
So, so you know, just um supportthese restaurants, but support
this neighborhood in particular.
Um, you know, we've we've gotlots of locations and they all
need love and support.
Please come out and be a part ofour community.
You know, we're trying to creategathering spaces that mean
something in St.
Louis.
And if we can, if you want to bea part of it, we want you to be
there.
Sounds like family.
Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01 (24:50):
Danny Eichenhorst, thank you for being here with me
today.
Oh, my pleasure.
I so appreciate you.
And thank you, friends, forspending time with us on Hope
Comes to Visit.
It is always a joy and apleasure to be here with you to
share real conversations andreal stories and real ways that
you can make a difference andyou can help.
And hopefully you have found alittle bit of inspiration and a
little bit of hustle comingright from Danny herself.
(25:12):
The next time we see you, I hopeyou will take good care of
yourself between now and then.
Thanks for being here.
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sponsor the podcast.
This episode is supported byChris Dully, a trusted criminal
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