Boss selling restaurant to help waitress with brain tumor

[qara_isuke]

ONTGOMERY, Texas -- Along Highway 105 in Montgomery, you'll find the Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar. You'll also find a waitress extraordinaire named Brittany Mathis

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[shortsweetcynic]

This is lovely. :) I hope she's able to get the treatment she needs and make a full recovery.

[rhysande]

I hope De Beyer's able to get the $2 million he's hoping for instead of the $1.3 million he was offered when he previously tried to sell his restaurant.

[star_maple]

See, I would love to see this as a heartwarming story, but if he had just given his employees health insurance he wouldn't have to sell his restaurant for her! This story just makes me angry.

[vvalkyri]

yeah I'm a bit confused about the selling restaurant thing. Also why she isn't signed up for ACA. Also how if one sells the restaurant what happens with the jobs. I guess the new owners employ the same folks?

[qara_isuke]

I imagine that is the plan. When the place my brother worked at changed hands, they kept the same employees. Getting trained, experienced staff in that business is tricky and it's better to keep the people already trained. Less expensive for the new owner, allows them to open back up right away.

[teaoli]

Also why she isn't signed up for ACA.

I know of a lot of people who are STILL having trouble signing up for various reasons: friends and acquaintances have cited anything from their state marketplaces being backed up or inaccessible to not actually being able to afford what is offered. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons I haven't heard. It feels unfair to me for anyone to (seemingly) put the blame on Mathis if they don't know everything about her particular circumstances.