My neighborhood challenges

By: Santiago Naranjo

This is a story about my neighborhood. We moved to southeast Denver almost two years ago, into the Hampden area.

Since we moved, there was a building that was never opened. Then, we saw some construction crews that started to work on it.

After a while we found they built a taco restaurant. On their opening day, they threw a party and gave out free food. After that, my family and I went outside and it was VERY cold.

A half hour later, we were back and my sister and I were hungry and it was late. I think it was 7:00 or 8:00 so we ate something and went to bed.

We became regular costumers, we used to go to the restaurant probably a couple of times each month.

But then, the virus came and the restaurant was told to close its doors, it was not possible to dine in anymore.

The next 2 months we were in the situation of the virus.

Since then, when we want to order from any restaurant, my dad puts an order on the internet, waits a few minutes, then gets his mask (because we were trying to be safe) and walks to pick up the order.

We have seen how the restaurant has been adapting things ever since.

They started offering drive thru service, we can see they appear to have more costumers because now they even have big lines there.

We are happy to see our community restaurants continue offering service, because they are respecting social distancing and are getting costumers every day.