The Original E-ZUP® Blog

BJ's Restaurants are making a pleasant outdoor dining experience for their customers with E-Z UP Shelters.

E-Z UP: What is the biggest misconception about “growing up Hollywood”?

Beverley: I think the biggest misconception about Growing Up in Hollywood is that we all have had these crazy lives, filled with partying and such. I have always been a pretty grounded and somewhat boring homebody. I would much rather hang at home and be with my family than being out with a group of people.

Co-owners and sisters Jennifer Nap and Kathryn Nap of Two Saucy Broads Pizza and Beer Parlor haven’t had the opportunity to operate much of a “parlor” for several months now. June marks their pizzeria’s nine-year anniversary, so they may have survived the “seven-year itch”, but that was nothing compared to the challenges 2020 brought small businesses. Like all restaurants over the last few months, they’ve had to close the dining room, but luckily pizza and delivery are a natural combination. Plenty of businesses would have stopped there, right? But this joint was aptly named by and for it’s co-founders, and so the “Two Saucy Broads” were proactive from day one with new menu items, aggressive digital strategy, and curbside pickup under their full-bleed, digitally printed E-Z UP® shelter which started going up out front every day.

Most businesses have been seriously impacted by this pandemic, and small businesses have taken the hardest hit.  Despite stimulus packages and relief measures, many entrepreneurs and small business owners are left asking, “what now?”  Adapting to this unanticipated “new normal” will be challenging.  Push forward and find a path to growth.  These easy to execute tips will get your creative juices flowing.

Lobsterdamus, a Southern California based pop-up restaurant started in 2014 and quickly became a favorite among those exploring the exploding culinary scene of Los Angeles.  Regulars quickly got used to passersby asking if they could IG photos of a stranger’s dinner, all too often the sizzling “Lobster Nest”, easily their most popular dish – mesquite grilled Maine Lobster over a bed of garlic noodles.

 

There were many reasons for the founders of Lobsterdamus to be optimistic.  That was until the coronavirus began to spread across our nation, and festivals and concerts were cancelled one-by-one.  This gastronomic darling lost its customers overnight along with so many others, but they responded.  There were many in need all around them and numerous ways they could pivot. 

In-N-Out serving at the Extended Care Hospital of Riverside for Nursing Week. Featured shelter Endeavor™ 10' x 10' Aluminum Shelter.

Staff nurses with the Alabama Department of Public Health wait to screen residents at a coronavirus testing site.

It is our goal right now as a company to help federal, state, and county medical staff and emergency responders with medical containment products so they can expand testing and treatment capacity.

Vehicles line up at a "Grab & Go" stop to get free school meals provided by the Los Angeles Unified District at the Virgil Middle School station Los Angeles.

The world is facing an outbreak of historic proportion right now. Like so many, we at International E-Z UP have been closely monitoring the latest news related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and are very concerned with the recent progression of the number of reported cases. As always, our first priority is the health and safety of our employees, suppliers, partners and customers.