A couple of North Bay chefs flipped their COVID-19 stimulus checks into a restaurant after investing in Tesla stock.
It’s a business that also requires a lot of hard work.
Petaluma chefs Stephane Saint Louis and Steven Vargas, who have worked together at various restaurants for years, each took their $1,200 stimulus checks and invested in a company about to have a big stock boom.
"We decided to take a gamble on Tesla," Saint Louis said.
That gamble paid off. Their $2,400 became $17,000.
They cashed in their stock to order a mobile kitchen trailer and began doing pop-up meals using a friend’s restaurant space when she wasn’t using it.
This led to more pop-up meals, customers and eventually investors.
The pair’s Table Culture Provisions has taken over the space previously occupied at 841 Petaluma Blvd. South in Petaluma. There’s the restaurant, a provisional store with freshly baked bread and more. They’ve turned to social media and set up online for take-out orders to give people what they want.
"So there’s only two of us in the kitchen," Saint Louis said. "So, we’re at the restaurant every morning at 5:30 a.m. all the way until 9 p.m., 10 p.m. In the morning, when we come in, we do the bread (and) everything fresh."
It’s all thanks to hard work, luck and a little help from Tesla stock.
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