Impact Of A Scholarship: Tom Hanna III – University of Maryland Athletics

And that pivot has led him to the place he’s immediately as a enterprise entrepreneur and companion in one of many hottest eating places in Annapolis, the Monument Kitchen & Lounge. 

Like many eating places, Monument Kitchen & Lounge was hit arduous by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We struggled,” admits Hanna. “We actually struggled, however we had been capable of maintain our core employees … barely. I additionally flip homes, which has been actually good currently, however I used to be capable of have a few of the restaurant employees working for me portray, doing demo, and simply attempting to maintain them as busy as potential.”

With the pandemic seemingly behind us, the enterprise has circled for Hanna and his companions.

“We have by no means been busier,” says Hanna. “Proper now we’re open 70% of the hours, so we’re not open as a lot in the course of the week. We’re solely open for dinner after which brunch on the weekends and we’re doing  25 to twenty-eight% larger gross sales than what we had been doing in 2019.”

However, Hanna actually is not able to relaxation there.

“We even have a chunk of property subsequent to the restaurant that we ought to be beginning on a three-story constructing within the subsequent six months with it being six residences above a brand new restaurant,” says Hanna.