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- Hello Lous Family ❤️
- Below is the story I originally posted however gofundme suggested that we share who we are personally. Many of you know pieces of the history but most of you dont know who we are and how we came to be part of this amazing community. Ill do my best to keep this as short as possible. Lous burgers has been in business since 1958. There were several locations open, over the years they all closed down. We are Robert and Leilan Kitchens, our grandpa Don Roberge bought Lous Burgers from Lou himself in 1990. In 2010 Grandpa was ready to retire and was going to shut the place down, so we volunteered to take it over. Through the years we have had our ups and downs but we have made it through the other side of it. Leilans mother Joann has been with us since 2011 and has helped run things when were unable to. Our children have worked here on and off since we took over, they are 19 and 21 now and have their own career paths now. We have had several nieces and nephews work here over summer and holiday breaks then move on to whatever career path they chose. In recent years Roberts mom also came to work for us to help out. We are very family oriented here. Lou built an amazing family restaurant in 1958 and we are honored to have the opportunity to keep it going. The community has shown us so much love and support during this journey with our current land owners and are forever grateful.
- After a long drawn out negotiation the owners to our building finally accepted our offer. Final price is 580k. I set our goal at 50k to help us with the down payment and repairs that need to be done. So many of you express wanting to help and suggested we create this go fund me. At the time you all suggested this we didnt have a plan or goal so i didnt feel comfortable doing this. Honestly even though we have a goal I still dont feel the comfortable creating it because this is not something we have done before. We are incredibly humbled at the amount of love and support we have received in this past week every story i heard about what lous means to each of you individually filled my heart with joy. We are officially in escrow as of today but i wont breathe easy until we sign on the dotted line. The first thing we will do if everything goes through smoothly is turn Lous Burgers into a historic landmark so it can only ever be Lous Burgers. Any help is appreciated. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support you give us! We love each and everyone of you❤️
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Lous Burgers
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North Highlands, CA