Beth Merrill from International School of Professional Bartending

Beth Merrill

International School of Professional Bartending

Recommendations Given (3)
"Consistently great quality products, and as we are a school, they get used (and abused) daily!!..." Read more "Consistently great quality products, and as we are a school, they get used (and abused) daily!! Brian is fun to work with and over many years he has always come through."
Recent Activity

Beth from International School of Professional Bartending Answered this on August 15, 2020
I can't be in KCMO any more. The crime, the fluid and unattainable SD regs, the misappropriation of tax dollars, lack of support for law enforcement, BPD if not schizophrenia from Q, has forced small businesses to make a hasty exit. The buildings around me are see-throughs, my windows got... (more) I can't be in KCMO any more. The crime, the fluid and unattainable SD regs, the misappropriation of tax dollars, lack of support for law enforcement, BPD if not schizophrenia from Q, has forced small businesses to make a hasty exit. The buildings around me are see-throughs, my windows got "tagged" WHILE I was moving out, and nobody cares.  WTH was the point of that anyway? It's illegible destruction of other people's property that means absolutely nothing  to anyone except the owner, who now has to scrape the shit off. Get your dumb asses home where they belong. I don't know where I'm going, but I can't stay here.  

Beth from International School of Professional Bartending Answered this on June 27, 2020
The PPP doesn't fit my needs. My rent is disproportionate to my payroll (much larger), so I would have to take a huge PPP to get to the 25% portion forgivable. In the meantime, the COVID restrictions required me to close (a hands-on school), so I had no way to earn income. The rules kept changing... (more) The PPP doesn't fit my needs. My rent is disproportionate to my payroll (much larger), so I would have to take a huge PPP to get to the 25% portion forgivable. In the meantime, the COVID restrictions required me to close (a hands-on school), so I had no way to earn income. The rules kept changing and the mayor didn't follow the Governor. Even if I opened now, under SD rules, I can't put enough people in a class to make base rent and utilities.
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