Featuring the Weekly Newspapers of Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale Lawndale Tribune AND lAwNDAle News Hawthorne Press Tribune Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 2, No. 48 - November 26, 2020 Inside This Issue Certified & Licensed Professionals.......................7 Classifieds............................2 Entertainment......................2 Food.......................................7 Hawthorne............................3 Hawthorne Hotspot............3 Lawndale..............................4 Inglewood.............................5 Legals.................................4,6 Pets........................................8 Weekend Forecast Friday Sunny 65˚/47˚ Saturday Sunny 68˚/48˚ Sunday Mostly Sunny 68˚/50˚ The Spirit of Thanksgiving is Alive and Well in the South Bay The City of Inglewood Turkey Giveaway was presented by PepsiCo at SoFi Stadium. Special thanks to our beloved Snoop Dogg for always showing love to the City of Champions. The drive thru event provided holiday meals for over 2000 families. Thank you to all the partners and volunteers who made this event happen. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood. Serving Up Some “Good Stuff” Story and Photos by Chase Maser As the weather in the South Bay shifts to rolling fog and gray, misty breezes, restaurants in town find themselves dealing with another major challenge to serving customers throughout a global pandemic: outdoor dining. Good Stuff, a local breakfast restaurant and favorite among townsfolk, is certainly feeling the pressure. On the corner of Grand Ave. and Richmond St. (131 W Grand Ave.), you can see couples and families sitting outside on the weekends—seemingly normal in the early morning hours. But as the weekend passes, the sidewalk gets emptier. By mid-week, only a few outdoor tables host workers on a lunch break, and every hour or so, a customer walks inside to pick up a to-go order, then rushes back to their Chase Bennett, General Manager of Good Stuff in El Segundo. car and drives off. The slower pace is a big challenge for Chase Bennett—the newly appointed general manager of Good Stuff’s El Segundo location. “We’ve definitely noticed a slow-down in business,” says Bennett. “On the weekends, at all of our locations, it gets pretty busy with local customers, but during the week, it’s pretty light. It’s something we’ve never seen before, and we opened in 1979.” Owned and founded by Chris Bennett, Chase’s father, Good Stuff originally kicked off in Hermosa Beach. As a South Bay native, Chris dreamed of one day owning a restaurant where he grew up, and when an opportunity arrived for him to do so, he quickly cemented his dream as a staple of the surrounding communities. Growing up as the son of a restaurateur, Chase found himself working at the Hermosa location throughout high school. He’s an alumni of Bishop Montgomery in Torrance, and unlike his five other siblings, working in hospitality just made sense for him. “I tried a lot of other things in my life, but working in the restaurant has always been something I love. I love the business side of it, working with people, supporting the community, and right now, we’re facing some of our hardest challenges. We actually lost the previous general manager here in El Segundo right when COVID hit, so it’s been tough, overall, for me to adjust to a normal life. Nothing about running a business right now is normal.” Bennett also shares that Good Stuff is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and although there may not seem like much to celebrate, he feels that it’s important to honor their history—especially their customers. To ring in their 40 years of good food and good service to the community, Good Stuff is hosting a range of new promotions to not only benefit customers but to also drum up new business. For instance, one of their most popular promotions is their gift card kickback that they’re offering from Black Friday throughout the rest of the year. Plus, starting in December until the New Year, Good Stuff is hosting a mimosa special that features four different types of mimosas. It’s a perfect pairing for their pumpkin spice pancakes that’s new on the menu for the rest of the fall season, too. “We want to give our customers a fun, beneficial reason to get them coming back. Obviously, the chilly months ahead make that tough to do with indoor restrictions, but hopefully, we can make things festive and enjoyable for everyone.” And much like every other restaurant in town, Good Stuff has noticed a huge focus on to-go orders. Traditionally, the chain has always been a sit-down venue and still is for loyal customers in the morning, but Bennett has noticed a major trend in ordering habits and revenue for the restaurant as a whole. “I’d say that roughly 40% of our revenue, at the moment, comes from to-go orders. We don’t make it a huge priority because it’s never been our main model, but we definitely recognize the shift and have been See Good Stuff, page 5
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