Supply Chain Crisis Forces Fort Worth Restaurant To Close

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

October 30, 2021

While the supply chain nightmare is blamed for shortages on everything from glass bottles to auto parts, now a Fort Worth neighborhood is finding its appetites on the line.

Drew’s Soul Food Restaurant has closed its doors, shifting to catering only, as the owners struggled to secure the supplies needed to stay open.

“It started with the meat industry,” explains co-owner Stephanie Thomas, “and we just knew it wasn’t going to get better. And things just rolled downhill.”
“Ox-tails, black-eyed peas, some of the containers we can’t get… and sometimes you can only get 3,” shares her husband Andrew “Drew” Thomas, with Stephanie adding, “If I order the ‘to go’ cups for your vegetables, they may have the cups, but they don’t have the lids. What good does that do me?”

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