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How You Can Support This Empanada Small Business · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Ed Yasinco de Mayo, one of six point seven Light
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  Speaker 1: FM Cubby Christine, producer Kristin and Christine. We're currently having
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  Speaker 1: an epinada right now, yeah, from Jasmine's Nadas. And she's
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  Speaker 1: located in Lawrence, New Jersey, just outside the Trenton Farmers Market,
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  Speaker 1: originally from the Jersey Shore, and she's here in studio
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  Speaker 1: and I got to tell you first of all, we
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  Speaker 1: love these thank you, and the story we're about to
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  Speaker 1: tell you have an up and down story here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not all rainbows and unicorns here.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's been a wild ride over there, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get to that.
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  Speaker 1: But you started selling empanadas at different festivals and private
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  Speaker 1: events in New Jersey back in twenty fifteen, right yep.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know you were doing accounting before that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was an accounting and compliance so timpletely opposite of
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  Speaker 2: what I'm doing now, but it helped me on the
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  Speaker 2: back end, so doing all my books and stuff for
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  Speaker 2: my own business.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you keep track, Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: You aren't really happy with your money and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let's let's just start my own business.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, you know back in twenty twenty when the
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  Speaker 2: West of the world was getting laid off, I got
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  Speaker 2: laid off as well, and I was like, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to make money for anybody else. At the time,
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  Speaker 2: my husband was Nate had a really, really great job,
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  Speaker 2: so I was able to get out of the office
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  Speaker 2: and try to start my business. So that was a good,
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  Speaker 2: good thing out of the bad thing that happened in.
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  Speaker 3: The silver lining. So that's where your business began.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my daughter and I might well now she's fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: but when she was eight, we were selling and panadas.
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  Speaker 2: She was taking all the money, collecting everything, taking orders,
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  Speaker 2: and I was handing out and panadas. Outside of this
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  Speaker 2: warming case that I got. That was the warming case
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  Speaker 2: was the start of me being mobile pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: I must have been so happy to see you too,
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  Speaker 3: because remember during the pandemic, just anything, yeah, interaction.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was our time was shy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've had a couple of bad things happen. Explain
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  Speaker 1: what's been impacting your business.
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  Speaker 2: So since we've been at the Trent and Farmers Market,
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  Speaker 2: I have acquired the building in the back within that
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  Speaker 2: building has been there since like nineteen fifty two. I've
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  Speaker 2: owned it for three years and the three years I've
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  Speaker 2: had it, it's been NonStop craziness. Two cars, two separate times,
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  Speaker 2: drove right through my kitchen. Oh my gosh, nobody hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody was hurt the first So I teach cooking classes
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  Speaker 2: at night. So when I work in the restaurant during
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  Speaker 2: the day, make all them banadas, and then I take
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  Speaker 2: a little break and then I come back to teach
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  Speaker 2: my cooking class. When I was in my like as
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  Speaker 2: soon as I left for my break, is when the
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  Speaker 2: second car made that impact. He drove right through my kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: He hits, there's a car wash behind me. So people
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  Speaker 2: are like trying to fight to get into like the bay.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much, that's all you hear is you know, the
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  Speaker 2: the honking and the cursing all day out of my window.
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  Speaker 2: But so the guy pushed somebody else out of the way,
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  Speaker 2: and the woman said that he like mashed on the
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  Speaker 2: gas pedal to make like, Oh, I think he was
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  Speaker 2: trying to make it through my building. It's not GTA,
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  Speaker 2: this is real life.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't get through these Yes, in video games he
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  Speaker 1: made it, he didn't make it through the building right
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  Speaker 1: right right now? Did you have to cover that damage?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it insurance? So how does that work?
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  Speaker 2: So thankfully he had insurance times, both people had insurance.
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  Speaker 2: The since it was a car that my business insurance
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to hear about it and all they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I had to go through their car insurance to
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  Speaker 2: do everything. They you know, rebuilt the building. It was
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  Speaker 2: like eighty two thousand dollars worth of damage a second time,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a lot. But we were out of
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  Speaker 2: business for about seven months.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's hard.
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  Speaker 2: So it really hard. Yeah, and at the time he
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  Speaker 2: hadn't fortunately lost his job, so and Banadas was the
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  Speaker 2: sole source of income for the Yeah, those couple of months,
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  Speaker 2: it was a little scary. But thankfully to the community
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  Speaker 2: around me, like they set up go fund me, they
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  Speaker 2: were donating meals to my family. They were like gift
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  Speaker 2: cards to shop right and stuff like oh, that's incredible,
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  Speaker 2: but like, yeah, we got through thanks to them. We
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  Speaker 2: got through those seven months. Wow, opened back up, so yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The community coming together, it's wonderful and people love you
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 1: So they are looking better, right, Yeah, but you only
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  Speaker 1: open on like Thursday through Sunday because of the farmer's
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  Speaker 1: market hours. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I tried to when I first opened up
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  Speaker 2: the restaurant, I did try to like open up for
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  Speaker 2: like the Wednesday and Tuesday, but there was just no
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm literally in the back of the yeah, there was.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the back of the parking lot. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have good signage outside, like on the street, so it
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  Speaker 2: was it's just hard. So Thursday through Sunday they are
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  Speaker 2: open there, so I just that's what my hours are,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: So this is Jasmine's Nadas, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And you're on Instagram and your handle is Jazmin Nadas
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  Speaker 1: yes and Facebook too, and people can go check you
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  Speaker 1: out at nine to sixty Spruce Street in Lawrence, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: which is, by the way, the same as Lawrenceville. Because
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  Speaker 1: you told me Lawrence, New Jersey, I'm like, what about Lawrenceville. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's the same, And it's the Trenton Farmers Market and
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  Speaker 1: you're there Thursdays through Sundays exactly, right.
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  Speaker 3: And you have a huge following. You love your food.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up here all right, coming back with three hours
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  Speaker 1: commercial free next