Mission Cafe employees and debtors

We have been in business for over 13 years running this, the only diner-breakfast restaurant in San Juan Bautista. We owned another restaurant, a Basque restaurant, in town for over 20 years. When Covid19 hit, we decided we had to sacrifice one restaurant and focus on the one on main street even though it had a landlord that did not adjust rent during the pandemic (the other did, as all others in most towns did). Thanks to The Great Plates program, we survived and built an outdoor parklet to seat more customers...the future looked bright. Our landlord tried to evict us just as the shelter-in-place rules were lifted. The public outcry was so great that these wealthy landlords were forced to reconsider, privately telling us it was only temporary until the bad publicity blew over. As inflation and hard times returned, we always paid rent, which they demanded always be paid in cash and in person, with a $200 fee if even hours late. The landlords admitted they didn't need the rental income, paid cash for the building, and wanted to get us back for the negative publicity for their original eviction. Our employees and their families have worked for us for over 20 years and are now out of work. Rent always came first because of the tenuous and tense situation with the landlords, so employees and pg&e had to take a back seat. We are forced out with huge unpaid tax debt, but worst is utilities at over $21,000 and employees who loyally kept us open waiting for nearly $6000 in back wages. We need over $30k to avoid penalties, fines, and future garnishments. The month-to-month arrangement with landlords made it challenging to plan ahead and profit steadily with any long-term plan. Please help our loyal employees and make debt collections go away.