P.A. Humpty’s owners want the city to cut them a break
Last summer’s Second Ave W. construction wasn’t just an inconvenience for motorists, owners of Prince Albert’s Humpty’s restaurant said it nearly cost them their livelihood.
The restaurant business is all about convenience said owner Robert Dunn but construction made it nearly impossible for patrons to navigate their way into the Humpty’s parking lot. The complicated detour resulted in a decrease in sales so significant it will take Dunn and co-owner and wife Lisa, up to two years to recover. The pair asked city council during an executive committee meeting yesterday, Feb. 8, to reduce their 2016 taxes by 33 per cent to help offset the past summer’s financial burden.
“To make it a little more understandable to how this affects us, to be honest with you this year could have killed me,” Dunn said. “From June until October I lost $160,000 worth of sales.”
Dunn said the Second Ave. construction lasted four months. The remaining eight couldn’t make up the losses from the summer.