53.6 Howe Enterprise June 29, 2015

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Abby's new hours for the summer only because Mondays and Wednesday evenings have slowed down severely. Closing on those slow nights will allow her to have more flexibility with the payroll and waitstaff. She says that she'll re-evaluate a good time to open back up on those two evenings when people get back into their routines a few weeks after school starts. Having two nights off a week also gives her time to spend with her family, which includes a junior daughter in high school. Her normal workday is 7am to 9pm in The history of Howe restaurants that start closing at different times which she's done for the past 10 has been a precursor to an eventual years. closing, however, Abby's Restaurant owner Lillian Avila says "I'm used to the work." said Avila. "The third week of being at home that's far from the case with their new summer hours. Abby's is now on those nights, I felt tired because my body is not used to resting." closed at 3pm on Mondays and Wednesdays and have removed Avila's oldest child has already their dinner hours from those graduated and out of the house, but nights. the 16-year-old is very active in "I thought about it, but at the same extracurricular performances at McKinney ISD. time most people understand that I'm constantly changing things." "Time is going to fly and I want to said Avila. "I'm constantly doing spend time with her a little bit." things differently. I don't do the said Avila. "She's going to the same things all the time." Rose Bowl this year (for a performance). After she graduates, Avila, who opened Abby's I'll have all the free time to work. Restaurant in April of 2014 has become the anchor of the renewed spirit of downtown Howe. This is Abby's Restaurant is known for the chicken fried steak and general not the first time that this has home style cooking. The restaurant happened. has been the economic driver for downtown for the past 16 months. :"When I was in Pilot Point, downtown was dead. The buildings During lunch hours, there's hardly a place to park in downtown. This were collapsing. It was just also has an effect on other terrible." said Avila. "Now you downtown businesses that see foot look at it and it's beautiful. We were the first ones bringing people traffic from patrons that haven't been seen in the historic district in in to downtown Pilot Point when quite some while. The Howe they were getting started." Mercantile has mirrored Abby's hours due to the amount of traffic. Avila says that the new hours are

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