Since 1977, Michael’s has been a fixture of Highland Park, the town just north of Chicago where seven people were killed in a Fourth of July shooting. schlife spoke with co-owner Ryan Gamperl about grappling with tragedy and the difficulty of reopening
Michael’s Grill and Salad Bar has been a mainstay since 1977. Photo: Courtesy of Michael’s Grill & Salad Bar Since 1977, Michael’s has been a fixture of Highland Park, Illinois, the town just north of Chicago where seven people were killed and 30 were injured in a Fourth of July mass shooting.
It was a pretty chaotic scene because we were only about 250 feet away from the actual location, off the path of the parade route. I was walking towards it when everything happened, and I was out looking for any staff that hadn’t arrived yet, that were maybe trying to catch a glimpse of the parade. In that situation, there was a whole lot of panic, people running everywhere, trying to take shelter, not knowing what to be looking for, and all of that.
The FBI shut it down. They set up a perimeter that no one would be allowed in, which turned out to last like five days. The Fourth was Monday, and it was Saturday afternoon before the owners of the buildings were allowed back inside. Sunday morning was when we were really able to open up again. But everybody had just kind of dropped what they were doing and turned off the gas, so we had a lot of clean-up to do. And no food because everything that was being prepared for Monday had spoiled.
It’s a big sunken cost. As of right now, there are no funds or disaster relief. It’s something I’ve been pushing for, to get in a room with the right people to say that if the governor declared it a disaster, then why isn’t the governor allocating funds for the affected businesses? At the end of the day, it’s not just your sales revenue that you lost. We also have a staff of 52 people, so it’s a huge payroll to cover on a daily basis. And then we took a loss on the food.
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